From the course: Cloud-Based Agentic AI Design Patterns
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External interaction circuit breaker
From the course: Cloud-Based Agentic AI Design Patterns
External interaction circuit breaker
- AgentIX systems often rely on external applications and tools to carry out actions. Because these external programs exist outside of the AgentIX systems boundary, they might be out of our control. If we have an AI agent with an action module that needs to send commands to an external service or tool that is unreliable, it can result in a lot of wasteful processing. For example, the action module might repeatedly send request messages to the external applications API, which then repeatedly fail because it's unreliable. The application may have worked in the past, which is why the action module is designed to use it, but because it's unreliable, it simply doesn't always work. The external interaction circuit breaker pattern addresses this problem by introducing a new module within the agent's architecture that is positioned between the controller and action modules, and that tracks and controls access attempts to external applications and tools. In electrical engineering, the term…
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