AI Agent Fallback Strategy 2026

OpenAI is down, the network is disconnected, the database can't be reached—Agent can't just crash. A good degradation strategy lets Agent handle exceptions gracefully.

💡 What You Will Learn

OpenAI is down, the network is disconnected, the database can't be reached—Agent can't just crash. A good degradation strategy lets Agent handle exceptions gracefully.

L0
L1API → APIGPT→Claude→DeepSeek
L2API → Ollama
L3 → 
L4 → "" + 

models = ["gpt-4o", "claude-3", "deepseek-chat", "local-llm"]

def call_with_fallback(prompt):
    for model in models:
        try:
            return call_model(model, prompt)
        except Exception:
            continue
    return "Service temporarily unavailable"

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