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Agentic Architecture~16 min
Error Recovery, Stop Conditions, and Guardrails
Make agents fail gracefully: surface tool errors back to the model, bound retries with backoff and circuit breakers, set stop conditions and budgets, and add human checkpoints before high-stakes actions.
What you will be able to do
- ✓Return tool errors to the model as a tool_result with is_error so it can self-correct
- ✓Choose the right recovery strategy: backoff retries for transient failures, circuit breakers for repeated failures, idempotency for safe retries
- ✓Bound agents with stop conditions, iteration caps, and token budgets to prevent runaway loops
- ✓Place human-in-the-loop checkpoints before irreversible or high-stakes actions and guard against prompt injection
4 concepts·6 hands-on exercises·3-question check