Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill circuit-breaker-patterngit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-promptsWrote this? Show the measurements
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- Snyk pass
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00037 | $0.00595 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00298 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00119 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00060 |
Grade A, and why
circuit-breaker-pattern scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Circuit Breaker Pattern
Table of Contents
Overview
Implement circuit breaker patterns to prevent cascading failures and provide graceful degradation when dependencies fail.
When to Use
- External API calls
- Microservices communication
- Database connections
- Third-party service integrations
- Preventing cascading failures
- Implementing fallback mechanisms
- Rate limiting protection
- Timeout handling
Quick Start
Minimal working example:
enum CircuitState {
CLOSED = "CLOSED",
OPEN = "OPEN",
HALF_OPEN = "HALF_OPEN",
}
interface CircuitBreakerConfig {
failureThreshold: number;
successThreshold: number;
timeout: number;
resetTimeout: number;
}
interface CircuitBreakerStats {
failures: number;
successes: number;
consecutiveFailures: number;
consecutiveSuccesses: number;
lastFailureTime?: number;
}
class CircuitBreaker {
private state: CircuitState = CircuitState.CLOSED;
private stats: CircuitBreakerStats = {
failures: 0,
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)
Reference Guides
Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:
| Guide | Contents |
|---|---|
| TypeScript Circuit Breaker | TypeScript Circuit Breaker |
| Circuit Breaker with Monitoring | Circuit Breaker with Monitoring |
| Opossum-Style Circuit Breaker (Node.js) | Opossum-Style Circuit Breaker (Node.js) |
| Python Circuit Breaker | Python Circuit Breaker |
| Resilience4j-Style (Java) | Resilience4j-Style (Java) |
Best Practices
✅ DO
- Use appropriate thresholds for your use case
- Implement fallback mechanisms
- Monitor circuit breaker states
- Set reasonable timeouts
- Use exponential backoff
- Log state transitions
- Alert on frequent trips
- Test circuit breaker behavior
- Use per-dependency breakers
- Implement health checks
What ships with it
7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- references/circuit-breaker-with-monitoring.md 1.6 KB
- references/opossum-style-circuit-breaker-nodejs.md 1.4 KB
- references/python-circuit-breaker.md 3.6 KB
- references/resilience4j-style-java.md 1.8 KB
- references/typescript-circuit-breaker.md 3.7 KB
- scripts/validate-api.sh 440 B runs code
- templates/api-scaffold.yaml 467 B
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 13d ago First seen · 102 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 3bad366e9097
circuit-breaker-pattern is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (338 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 595 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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