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APIs fail. Rate limits hit. Networks flake. This wraps your HTTP calls with production-grade resilience without any setup ceremony.

The Problem

Every agent hits external APIs. Raw requests calls have no retry logic, no rate limit handling, no circuit breaking. When the Brave Search API returns a 429, most agents just crash.

The Solution

Resilient API Client wraps any HTTP call with automatic retries, exponential backoff, jitter, circuit breaker, and rate limit header parsing — all configurable.

Features:

  • Exponential backoff with jitter
  • Configurable retry count and base delay
  • Circuit breaker (opens after N consecutive failures)
  • Rate limit header parsing (X-RateLimit-*, Retry-After)
  • Timeout handling
  • Response validation hooks

Usage

from resilient_api_client import ResilientClient

client = ResilientClient(
    max_retries=3,
    base_delay=1.0,
    circuit_breaker_threshold=5,
)

response = client.get("https://api.example.com/data")
data = response.json()

Status

✅ Complete — 5/5 tests passing

No external dependencies (optional: requests). Python 3.9+. MIT License.