Anthropic Reliability Patterns Overview Production reliability patterns for Claude API: circuit breaker (prevent cascading failures), graceful degradation (serve fallbacks), idempotency (safe retries), and timeout management. Circuit Breaker Graceful Degradation Idempotent Requests Timeout Configuration Reliability Checklist - [ ] Circuit breaker prevents cascading failures - [ ] Graceful degradation serves fallback responses - [ ] Idempotency keys prevent duplicate processing - [ ] Timeouts configured at SDK and application level - [ ] Health check probes API connectivity - [ ] Retry logic u…