What is cascading error recovery in AI workflows?

Cascading error recovery is a prioritized sequence of recovery steps that starts with simple retries and moves through semantic prompt improvements and agent substitutions before finally requesting human intervention.

What are Tier 2 semantic fallbacks?

Tier 2 fallbacks involve rephrasing prompts, adding explicit output constraints, or providing examples when an agent produces invalid or hallucinated output.

Can this skill handle context window overflows?

Yes, it includes strategies for tiered context compression and summarization to automatically reduce token usage and retry tasks within the model's window limits.

How does the circuit breaker pattern help my agents?

The circuit breaker monitors for consecutive failures and temporarily halts requests to a failing service or tool, preventing 'thundering herd' problems and giving the system time to recover.

Cascading Error Recovery

Name: Cascading Error Recovery
Author: pagerguild

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Analytics & Monitoring

Implements sophisticated, multi-tiered recovery strategies to ensure autonomous agent workflows remain resilient against transient failures and complex errors.

About

The Error Recovery skill provides a robust framework for managing failures in multi-agent AI environments by applying modern industry patterns. It employs a cascading four-tier approach: immediate retries with exponential backoff for transient issues, semantic fallbacks for output formatting errors, agent substitution for capability mismatches, and structured human escalation for blocking problems. By integrating circuit breakers and context management, it prevents cascading system failures and maintains workflow continuity even when individual tools or models encounter limitations, significantly reducing manual intervention in automated development cycles.

Key Features

Four-tier cascading recovery architecture from retries to human escalation
Standardized observability metrics for tracking recovery success rates
Exponential backoff with jitter to handle API rate limits and network noise
Context overflow management through tiered compression and summarization
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Automatic circuit breaker implementation to prevent repetitive failure loops

Use Cases

Fixing malformed model output or invalid JSON through semantic fallback prompting
Degrading task complexity or switching model tiers when context limits are reached
Automatically recovering from transient API timeouts or 429 rate limits during orchestration

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Key Features

Four-tier cascading recovery architecture from retries to human escalation
Standardized observability metrics for tracking recovery success rates
Exponential backoff with jitter to handle API rate limits and network noise
Context overflow management through tiered compression and summarization
0 GitHub stars
Automatic circuit breaker implementation to prevent repetitive failure loops

Use Cases

Fixing malformed model output or invalid JSON through semantic fallback prompting
Degrading task complexity or switching model tiers when context limits are reached
Automatically recovering from transient API timeouts or 429 rate limits during orchestration