Agent Fallback Path

Agent Fallback Path is a ai resilience pattern that keeps an AI feature useful when a provider or tool is unavailable for tool-using assistant workflows. It uses degraded states, deterministic responses, and operator notices so teams can avoid fake AI success while keeping evidence, reliability, and public-safe operational boundaries clear.

“The AI platform team used Agent Fallback Path when an agent moved from search to action, so the team could avoid fake AI success before the agent workflow reached production.”