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Four-Layer Fault Tolerance for Production Agents

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(Advanced) Retry with backoff → model fallback chains → error classification routing → checkpoint recovery. Reduces unrecoverable failures to under 2%. Key: retry middleware comes BEFORE fallback middleware, and tool errors go back to the LLM for reformulation rather than blind retry. Source

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