Resilient Connections

Patterns for building resilient API clients and real-time connections with retry logic, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation. Build systems that handle failures gracefully.

What's Inside

• Exponential backoff with jitter for retry logic
• Circuit breaker pattern (Closed → Open → Half-Open states)
• Resilient fetch wrapper with timeout and automatic retries
• Reconnecting WebSocket class with configurable max retries
• Graceful degradation with primary/fallback/cache strategy

When to Use

• Building API clients that need to handle transient failures
• Real-time connections that should reconnect automatically
• Systems that need graceful degradation
• Any production system calling external services

Installation

npx add https://github.com/wpank/ai/tree/main/skills/realtime/resilient-connections

OpenClaw / Moltbot / Clawbot

npx clawhub@latest install resilient-connections

Manual Installation

Cursor (per-project)

From your project root:

mkdir -p .cursor/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/realtime/resilient-connections .cursor/skills/resilient-connections

Cursor (global)

mkdir -p ~/.cursor/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/realtime/resilient-connections ~/.cursor/skills/resilient-connections

Claude Code (per-project)

From your project root:

mkdir -p .claude/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/realtime/resilient-connections .claude/skills/resilient-connections

Claude Code (global)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r ~/.ai-skills/skills/realtime/resilient-connections ~/.claude/skills/resilient-connections

Related Skills

• realtime-react-hooks — React hook usage for real-time data
• websocket-hub-patterns — Server-side WebSocket patterns

Part of the Realtime skill category.