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PatternSafety and reliability

Circuit Breaker

Disjuntor

Circuit Breaker is an AI design pattern for LLM apps and agents, in the Safety and reliability group. Stop calling a failing service and resume once it recovers.

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Quick answers

What is Circuit Breaker?

Circuit Breaker is an AI design pattern for LLM apps and agents, in the Safety and reliability group. Stop calling a failing service and resume once it recovers.

Which smells does the Circuit Breaker pattern help cure?

Single Provider Dependency and Blind Retry.

Where does Circuit Breaker show up in practice?

In the real-world scenarios Support bot with human escalation and Back-office automation with durable execution.

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Relations

Smells it helps cure 2: Single Provider Dependency
Blind Retry
Refactorings that lead here 2: Add Fallback Path
Classify Errors Before Retry
Neighbor patterns 9: Input Guardrails
Output Guardrails
Dual LLM
Least-Privilege Tools
Constitutional Check
Fallback Model
Output Validation and Repair
PII Redaction
Audit Log
Shows up in scenarios 2: Support bot with human escalation
Back-office automation with durable execution