service-resilience SKILL.md skillA
service-resilience from d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/service-resilience@git:20260819.d23bb73Pins git:20260819.d23bb73 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook
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skills/service-resilience/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260819.d23bb73, committed Aug 19, 2026
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- 6,874 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Designs and reviews production resilience for service dependencies using deadlines, timeouts, bounded retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, backpressure, load shedding, rate limits, fallbacks, idempotency, and recovery testing. Use when the user mentions circuit breaker, bulkhead, retries, cascading failure, partial failure, overload, graceful degradation, or resilient distributed services.
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
# Service Resilience Design resilience as a bounded failure policy, not a collection of decorators. Every mechanism must protect a stated critical journey without creating retry storms, stale success, hidden data loss, or fragmented capacity. ## Resilience Contract - Begin with critical journeys, SLOs, dependency budgets, and acceptable degraded outcomes. - Put one end-to-end deadline around the operation. Allocate smaller attempt timeouts within it. - Retry only classified transient failures for idempotent operations or operations protected by stable idempotency keys. - Bound attempts, elapsed time, concurrency, queues, memory, and retry amplification. - Isolate unrelated workloads with bulkheads sized from capacity and priority. - Shed excess work before saturation destroys useful throughput. - Use circuit breakers only when rejecting likely failures is cheaper and safer than attempting them. - Treat fallbacks as alternate correctness contracts. Never return stale or fabricated success silently. - Make ambiguous mutation outcomes reconcilable. - Test failure, overload, recovery, and control-plane behavior with measurable acceptance criteria. ## Design Workflow …
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How to install
mdr add d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/service-resilience@sha256:2ddd81d89d5e27d5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260819.d23bb73, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 19, 2026.
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Source
d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jdqlxoc4vzcltq5d GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook/service-resilience GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2ddd81d89d5e27d5912b4a5b8bd244cf26237f456a5a73d2aa25078dac28bed1
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