Anthropic Reliability Patterns

Overview

Production reliability patterns for Claude API: circuit breaker (prevent cascading failures), graceful degradation (serve fallbacks), idempotency (safe retries), and timeout management.

Circuit Breaker

import time
from enum import Enum

class CircuitState(Enum):
    CLOSED = "closed"       # Normal operation
    OPEN = "open"           # Failing, reject requests
    HALF_OPEN = "half_open" # Testing recovery