feat(resilience): add circuit breaker pattern for production stability #41
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PR Description for the Circuit Breaker
Summary
Implements a production-grade Circuit Breaker pattern to prevent cascade failures when external services (LLMs, APIs) are degraded or unavailable.
Why This Change?
Bindu agents call external LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) which can experience:
The existing retry mechanism (
bindu/utils/retry.py) handles transient failures but keeps retrying indefinitely on degraded services. This can:Circuit breaker complements retry — retry = "try again" wheras circuit breaker = "stop trying, it's broken."
What's Included
bindu/utils/circuit_breaker.pybindu/settings.pyCircuitBreakerSettingsconfig classtests/unit/test_circuit_breaker.pyexamples/circuit_breaker_demo.pyKey Features
asyncio.LockCircuitBreakerSettings(Pydantic)Usage Example
Testing
Reference
Based on Michael T. Nygard's "Release It!" pattern for production resilience.
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