RELIABILITY

10 min read

The defensive patterns that keep Claude integrations alive in production. Retry shapes, backoff with jitter, circuit breakers, fallback chains, and the observability you need to debug at 3am.

9 min read

The math of agent pipelines is brutal. 85% reliability per step compounds to about 20% at 10 steps. Here is why long chains collapse in production, and the six patterns the field has converged on to fight the decay.