Agent Reliability — Anti-Patterns

This skill extends agent-reliability with common mistakes and how to fix them. Load agent-reliability first.

When to Activate

• Retry logic catches authentication or validation errors (not just transient ones)
• All agent calls use the same fixed sleep delay on failure
• A single global timeout governs tool calls, agent calls, and entire workflows
• Circuit breaker opens after every single failure
• Every agent call uses the most expensive model regardless of task complexity

Anti-Patterns

Retrying Non-Retryable Errors (Auth, Validation)

Wrong: