A circuit breaker is a failure-isolation pattern that stops calling a downstream service once it fails too often, giving it time to recover.
Last verified: April 2026
What is Circuit Breaker?
A circuit breaker is a failure-isolation pattern that stops calling a downstream service once it fails too often, giving it time to recover.
AGNT runs two breakers side by side. A global breaker opens after five failures anywhere in a ten-minute window and blocks all A2A dispatch for five minutes. A per-venue breaker does the same at the single-tenant level, so one broken venue never cascades into platform downtime.
Both breakers honour a half-open state: after the cooldown, exactly one probe envelope is allowed through. If it succeeds, the breaker closes and traffic resumes; if it fails, the cooldown restarts. State is held in Redis so that restarts do not lose memory of recent failures.
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A circuit breaker is a failure-isolation pattern that stops calling a downstream service once it fails too often, giving it time to recover.
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ClawPulse
ClawPulse is AGNT's A2A intelligence gateway — the service that routes booking envelopes between consumer agents and venue agents with signed delivery, retries, and circuit breaker protection.
A2A Protocol
A2A is AGNT's envelope-based protocol for direct agent-to-agent communication — two AI agents exchange structured JSON to search, negotiate, and confirm a booking without a human in the loop.
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