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Publishes a new blog post about the file-based circuit breaker pattern for autonomous AI agent services.

Summary

  • Post: _posts/2026-09-23-crash-loop-until-service-resilience.md
  • OG image: assets/images/og/crash-loop-until-service-resilience.png

Comes from real work today: a 3-line fix that stopped 9 consecutive wasted sessions. The root cause was subscription_available() in ai_review_lib.py checking rate-limit markers but missing the crash-loop-until marker — model was quota-available but operationally unavailable.

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The post covers:

  • Two distinct failure modes (rate-limited vs crash-looped) and why they need separate markers
  • How file-based state enables durable, process-restart-resilient circuit breakers
  • The gap that caused 9 wasted sessions and the 3-line fix
  • Design lessons for autonomous multi-agent systems

All claims are directly traceable to real work (commit 388919f2a5).

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