resilience-patterns

Installation
SKILL.md

Resilience Patterns

Critical

  • Kie.ai outage (Feb 24, 2026) caused 0% success rate — zero retry, zero circuit-breaker, zero fallback. This is why this skill exists.
  • Every external API call MUST have retry logic — no exceptions.
  • Circuit breakers prevent cascade failures — stop calling a dead service.
  • Fallback chains provide degraded service — better than total failure.

External API Dependencies

Service Used By Failure Impact
PayPal All products No payments, no provisioning
Resend All products No email notifications
Apify VideoForge No Zillow scraping
Ollama (DECOMMISSIONED Apr 15) RAG No embeddings
GoLogin (FB Bot killed) FB Bot No browser profiles

Pattern 1: Exponential Backoff with Jitter (IMPLEMENTED)

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