Prompt·Agent harness and modern stack·G04
When an outside service goes down
Asks what happens to the app when Google, the AI Gateway or a service that sends it updates goes down.
Prompt
Assume each external API, LLM provider, or webhook source this application depends on either hangs for 30 seconds, returns 429 or 503 for an hour, or delivers a burst of out-of-order webhooks on recovery. Trace which transactions or connection pools are held open during external calls, and whether core journeys degrade gracefully or lock up.
- What it returns
- Each dependency with its timeout, retry policy, what is held open while waiting, and the user-visible result.
- Skip it when
- Features with no outside calls.
- Changes
- Changes nothing
- Sessions
- One session
- Tools
- Repository; a local run with outside services made to fail on purpose.
- Also called
- Third-party outage blast radius
Skills it uses
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