error-recovery

To handle agent failures effectively, you implement error recovery patterns like retry with backoff, fallback alternatives, and graceful degradation to actively resolve issues instead of merely reporting them.

Standard error recovery patterns include retry with backoff for transient failures, fallback alternatives for primary tool failures, diagnose-and-fix for build errors, and escalating with context for human judgment.

You configure agents to retry transient failures automatically by activating error recovery patterns, supplying the operation name and issue context to enable the retry with backoff strategy.

Yes, you can continue operations with partial results when a non-critical step fails by utilizing the graceful degradation pattern, allowing your system to maintain functionality during partial failures.

No, you do not need external dependencies to implement system reliability and recovery patterns, as these comprehensive error handling guidelines are designed to operate independently.

You should escalate agent failures requiring human judgment by using the escalate with context pattern, which provides clear context about the failure to ensure informed decision-making.