EnterpriseHacker Noonabout 13 hours ago
Agents Need Circuit Breakers, Not Retries
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Agent systems need circuit breakers for reasoning failures, not just retries for transient errors. An agent retrying with wrong context or misread tool responses amplifies costs without fixing the underlying problem. The circuit breaker should trip on retry count per intent, answer variance, and time-to-resolution, not error rates.
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