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The architect's handbook for resilient AI systems

Architectural patterns for AI systems that survive real load: budgets, bulkheads, fallbacks, observability, and migration readiness. Grounded in the claude-code-staff-engineer and contextual-engineering-guide repos.

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What you get

  • Design an AI system with explicit latency, cost, and token budgets
  • Apply bulkhead and circuit-breaker patterns to model and tool calls
  • Wire fallback provider chains that survive a vendor outage
  • Instrument the full stack with per-turn traces and per-tool metrics
  • Plan model migrations that do not require a rewrite

Inside

  • The four architectural budgets
  • Bulkheads and circuit breakers
  • Provider fallback chains
  • Observability: traces, metrics, logs
  • Prompt and context as infrastructure
  • Model migration readiness
  • Safety review checklist
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