Circuit Breaker Policy

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A per-dependency configuration of failure-count or failure-rate thresholds, measurement window, recovery timeout, and half-open trial requests for a circuit breaker.

Responsibility. Sets the trip and recovery thresholds of a circuit breaker for one dependency.

Also known as: Circuit breaker thresholds

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Relationships

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Design guidance

SHOULD use more aggressive thresholds for less reliable dependencies such as external APIs and more lenient ones for more reliable LLM APIs.

Quantitative guidance

As stated by the sources; verify before use.

Search API: 3 failures, 30 s; LLM: 5 failures, 60 s (Ch2.8).

Classification

Patterns: Per-dependency threshold tuning
Quality attributes: Security (ISO/IEC 25010 | NIST AI RMF: secure and resilient)
Risks mitigated: Premature circuit opening (false positives)Unprotected genuine outages

Sources

Ch2.8: T. Nguyen, "Error Handling and Resilience," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 2.8. ISBN: 9798244538229.
Ch6.5: T. Nguyen, "Production RAG Systems," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 6.5. ISBN: 9798244538229.
Ch10.4: T. Nguyen, "Human-in-the-Loop," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 10.4. ISBN: 9798244538229.