circuit-breaker-pattern SKILL.md skillA
circuit-breaker-pattern from pjt222/agent-almanac is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/circuit-breaker-pattern@v1.1Pins v1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pjt222/agent-almanac
- Path
i18n/caveman-lite/skills/circuit-breaker-pattern/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.1, committed Aug 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 19, 2026
- Size
- 24,104 bytes
- Repository stars
- 43
- License
- MIT
Implement circuit breaker logic for agentic tool calls — tracking tool health, transitioning between closed/open/half-open states, reducing task scope when tools fail, routing to alternatives via capability maps, and enforcing failure budgets to prevent error accumulation. Separates orchestration (deciding what to attempt) from execution (calling tools), following the expeditor pattern. Use when building agents that depend on multiple tools with varying reliability, designing fault-tolerant…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Circuit Breaker Pattern Graceful degradation when tools fail. An agent that calls five tools and one is broken should not fail entirely — it should recognize the broken tool, stop calling it, reduce scope to what remains achievable, and report honestly about what was skipped. This skill codifies that logic using the circuit breaker pattern from distributed systems, adapted to agentic tool orchestration. The core insight, from kirapixelads' "Kitchen Fire Problem": the expeditor (orchestration layer) must not cook. Separation of concerns between deciding *what* to attempt and *how* to attempt it prevents the orchestrator from getting trapped in a failing tool's retry loop. ## When to Use - Building agents that depend on multiple tools with varying reliability - Designing fault-tolerant agentic workflows where partial results are better than total failure - An agent is stuck in a retry loop on a broken tool instead of continuing with working tools - Recovering gracefully from tool outages mid-task - Hardening existing agents against cascading tool failures - Stale or cached tool output is being treated as fresh data ## Inputs …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pjt222/agent-almanac/circuit-breaker-pattern@sha256:14d6f127b045bd37The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 19, 2026 and Aug 17, 2026, about one every 30 days.
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| v1.1 latest | 2026-08-17 | a784899 | 24,104 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-06-05 | 33b561c | 24,075 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-06-05 | 75ded7a | 24,043 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-04-19 | a31852a | 24,068 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1 | 2026-04-19 | e334ebd | 24,174 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
pjt222/agent-almanac · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7qseffpadp6vspjh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pjt222/agent-almanac/circuit-breaker-pattern GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/14d6f127b045bd373f6f015e8630e21cf8b94ec8e6dd7564303db7df5586ff0d
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