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Description

Closes #2154

This PR introduces CircuitBreakerMiddleware (DynamicFunctionMiddleware) and CircuitBreakerOpenError to packages/nvidia_nat_core/ to prevent cascading stalls, latency spikes, and LLM token waste during tool outages.

Key Changes

  • State Machine: Implements thread-safe CLOSED, OPEN, and HALF_OPEN state transitions using asyncio.Lock and monotonic timestamps (time.monotonic()).
  • Short-Circuiting via Typed Exception: Trips to OPEN after failure_threshold consecutive exhausted failures, raising CircuitBreakerOpenError without invoking downstream call_next.
  • Probe Safety & Recovery: In HALF_OPEN state, probes service health with optional probe_timeout wrapping. Consecutive successful probes (half_open_success_threshold) transition the state back to CLOSED, while probe failures immediately re-trip to OPEN.
  • Cancellation Isolation: Differentiates asyncio.CancelledError from service failure so caller task abortions reset probe concurrency flags without falsely incrementing the failure counter.
  • Registration & Plugin API: Registers @register_middleware(config_type=CircuitBreakerMiddlewareConfig) and exports all symbols in nat.plugin_api.
  • Unit Tests: Adds comprehensive test coverage in packages/nvidia_nat_core/tests/nat/middleware/test_circuit_breaker_middleware.py covering state transitions, streaming invocations, timeouts, concurrency safety, cancellation handling, and Pydantic validation.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added configurable circuit breaker middleware with closed, open, and half-open states.
    • Added failure thresholds, cooldowns, recovery probes, timeouts, and customizable messages.
    • Added support for standard and streaming operations, including cancellation handling.
    • Exposed circuit breaker components through the plugin API.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance covering configuration, state transitions, interception, streaming, timeouts, and cancellation.

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Signed-off-by: sankhyanreyansh <reyanshsankhyan.dev@gmail.com>
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Walkthrough

Adds configurable circuit-breaker middleware with CLOSED, OPEN, and HALF_OPEN states. It supports normal and streaming calls, probe timeouts, cancellation handling, registration, public exports, documentation, and tests.

Changes

Circuit Breaker Middleware

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and middleware integration
packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/*, packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/register.py, packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/plugin_api/__init__.py, packages/nvidia_nat_core/tests/nat/test_plugin_api.py, docs/source/build-workflows/advanced/middleware.md, docs/source/extend/plugin-api.md
Adds validated configuration, package and plugin API exports, registration, export tests, and documentation.
Circuit-breaker state machine
packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py
Implements per-target failure tracking, cooldown transitions, single HALF_OPEN probes, recovery thresholds, concurrent probe rejection, and synchronized state updates.
Normal and streaming invocation handling
packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py, packages/nvidia_nat_core/tests/nat/middleware/test_circuit_breaker_middleware.py
Adds timeout, cancellation, success, failure, streaming, and abandoned-generator handling. Tests cover state transitions, probe behavior, concurrency, isolation, and stream cleanup.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f10b9

This change adds circuit-breaker fault tolerance with accompanying tests and documentation; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FunctionCaller
  participant CircuitBreakerMiddleware
  participant call_next
  FunctionCaller->>CircuitBreakerMiddleware: invoke target
  CircuitBreakerMiddleware->>CircuitBreakerMiddleware: check state and admit probe
  CircuitBreakerMiddleware->>call_next: execute call or probe
  call_next-->>CircuitBreakerMiddleware: return success, failure, or cancellation
  CircuitBreakerMiddleware->>CircuitBreakerMiddleware: update state and counters
  CircuitBreakerMiddleware-->>FunctionCaller: return result or CircuitBreakerOpenError
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In `@docs/source/extend/plugin-api.md`:
- Around line 48-51: Remove the blank line within the bullet item listing the
middleware, context, and value model symbols so the continuation text remains
part of the same Markdown list item and renders as one complete sentence.

In
`@packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py`:
- Around line 213-245: Update function_middleware_stream in
packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py
at lines 213-245 to finalize abandoned generators by clearing _half_open_probing
when no success, failure, or cancellation handler runs; preserve existing
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at lines 447-520 that stops a probe stream after one chunk, verifies
_half_open_probing is False, and confirms the next call is admitted.

Apply the same fix in
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- Around line 136-181: Update _after_invocation_success and
_after_invocation_failure so the half-open handling branch is entered only when
is_probe is true, not merely when self._state is HALF_OPEN. Preserve the
existing CLOSED-state handling and ensure late non-probe calls cannot alter
probe counters, release the probing slot, close the breaker, or retrip it.
- Around line 224-230: Update the probe branch in function_middleware_stream so
asyncio.timeout wraps only each downstream iterator __anext__ await, not the
subsequent yield; manually drive the iterator and yield each chunk after exiting
the timeout scope. Preserve timeout exception handling through
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between chunks so later probes are not left blocked by _half_open_probing.
- Around line 58-66: The circuit-breaker fields initialized in __init__
currently share state across all intercepted targets. Replace the single state,
counters, probe flag, timestamp, and lock with per-target mappings keyed by a
stable identity combining component name and function_name, then update the
middleware’s state access and transition logic to use that key; add coverage
confirming failures in one target do not affect another.
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`DynamicFunctionMiddleware`, `CircuitBreakerMiddleware`, `CircuitBreakerMiddlewareConfig`,
`CircuitBreakerOpenError`, `CircuitBreakerState`, `HITLMiddleware`, `HITLMiddlewareConfig`, `InvocationAction`,
`MemoryEditor`, `ObjectStore`, `Retriever`, `Document`, `RetrieverOutput`, and their associated context

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Remove the blank line that splits the bullet item.

Line 51 is empty. Markdown ends the list item at that point. The continuation "or value models. ..." renders as a separate paragraph outside the list, and the sentence is broken in the built documentation. Delete the blank line.

📝 Proposed fix
 - Small implementation contracts needed by registered components, including `FunctionMiddleware`,
   `DynamicFunctionMiddleware`, `CircuitBreakerMiddleware`, `CircuitBreakerMiddlewareConfig`,
   `CircuitBreakerOpenError`, `CircuitBreakerState`, `HITLMiddleware`, `HITLMiddlewareConfig`, `InvocationAction`,
   `MemoryEditor`, `ObjectStore`, `Retriever`, `Document`, `RetrieverOutput`, and their associated context
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   or value models. The interactive data models that HITL middleware hooks and user-input callbacks produce
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`CircuitBreakerOpenError`, `CircuitBreakerState`, `HITLMiddleware`, `HITLMiddlewareConfig`, `InvocationAction`,
`MemoryEditor`, `ObjectStore`, `Retriever`, `Document`, `RetrieverOutput`, and their associated context
`DynamicFunctionMiddleware`, `CircuitBreakerMiddleware`, `CircuitBreakerMiddlewareConfig`,
`CircuitBreakerOpenError`, `CircuitBreakerState`, `HITLMiddleware`, `HITLMiddlewareConfig`, `InvocationAction`,
`MemoryEditor`, `ObjectStore`, `Retriever`, `Document`, `RetrieverOutput`, and their associated context
or value models. The interactive data models that HITL middleware hooks and user-input callbacks produce
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within the bullet item listing the middleware, context, and value model symbols
so the continuation text remains part of the same Markdown list item and renders
as one complete sentence.

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def __init__(self, config: CircuitBreakerMiddlewareConfig, builder: Builder) -> None:
super().__init__(config=config, builder=builder)
self._cb_config: CircuitBreakerMiddlewareConfig = config
self._state: CircuitBreakerState = CircuitBreakerState.CLOSED
self._failure_count: int = 0
self._success_count: int = 0
self._last_state_change: float = time.monotonic()
self._half_open_probing: bool = False
self._lock: asyncio.Lock = asyncio.Lock()

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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#!/bin/bash
# Description: Inspect how DynamicMiddlewareConfig targets components and how one middleware instance is shared.
set -euo pipefail

fd -t f 'dynamic_middleware_config.py' --exec cat -n {}
fd -t f 'dynamic_function_middleware.py' --exec ast-grep outline {} --items all
rg -n -C 5 'register_llms|register_workflow_functions' --type=py -g '!**/tests/**' | head -80

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#!/bin/bash
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sed -n '35,180p' packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/dynamic/dynamic_function_middleware.py
sed -n '250,430p' packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/dynamic/dynamic_function_middleware.py
sed -n '560,850p' packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/dynamic/dynamic_function_middleware.py

echo '--- Circuit breaker implementation ---'
sed -n '1,260p' packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py

echo '--- Circuit breaker documentation references ---'
rg -n -C 8 'circuit.breaker|isolat|failure|short.circuit' docs/source/build-workflows/advanced/middleware.md packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker --glob '!**/__pycache__/**'

echo '--- Call sites and tests ---'
rg -n -C 5 'CircuitBreakerMiddleware|DynamicFunctionMiddleware|_get_short_circuit_message|half_open_probing|failure_count' packages/nvidia_nat_core --glob '*.py' | head -240

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#!/bin/bash
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echo '--- Middleware construction and attachment ---'
rg -n -C 8 'middleware_instances|build.*middleware|FunctionMiddleware|middleware.*config|register_middleware' \
  packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat --glob '*.py' | head -260

echo '--- Circuit-breaker tests and configuration ---'
fd -t f -i 'circuit*breaker*' packages --exec sh -c 'echo === "$1"; rg -n -C 4 "state|failure_count|context.name|multiple|register|threshold|short.circuit" "$1"' sh {}

echo '--- Dynamic middleware tests for shared instances ---'
rg -n -C 6 'register_(llms|workflow_functions)|get_registered_keys|middleware.*chain|CircuitBreaker' \
  packages --glob 'test_*.py' --glob '*_test.py' | head -260

echo '--- Static behavioral verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import ast

cb_path = Path("packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py")
dyn_path = Path("packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/dynamic/dynamic_function_middleware.py")

cb = ast.parse(cb_path.read_text())
dyn = ast.parse(dyn_path.read_text())

def find_class(tree, name):
    return next(n for n in tree.body if isinstance(n, ast.ClassDef) and n.name == name)

def find_method(cls, name):
    return next(n for n in cls.body if isinstance(n, (ast.FunctionDef, ast.AsyncFunctionDef)) and n.name == name)

cb_cls = find_class(cb, "CircuitBreakerMiddleware")
init = find_method(cb_cls, "__init__")
assigned = {
    target.id
    for node in ast.walk(init)
    if isinstance(node, ast.Assign)
    for target in node.targets
    if isinstance(target, ast.Attribute)
    and isinstance(target.value, ast.Name)
    and target.value.id == "self"
}
print("instance_state_fields:", sorted(assigned & {
    "_state", "_failure_count", "_success_count",
    "_last_state_change", "_half_open_probing", "_lock"
}))

dyn_cls = find_class(dyn, "DynamicFunctionMiddleware")
register_component = find_method(dyn_cls, "_register_component_function")
append_self = any(
    isinstance(node, ast.Call)
    and isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
    and node.func.attr == "append"
    and any(isinstance(arg, ast.Name) and arg.id == "self" for arg in node.args)
    for node in ast.walk(register_component)
)
configure = find_method(dyn_cls, "_configure_component_function_middleware")
context_names = [
    node.value.id
    for node in ast.walk(configure)
    if isinstance(node, ast.Call)
    and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name)
    and node.func.id == "FunctionMiddlewareContext"
    for kw in node.keywords
    if kw.arg == "name"
    and isinstance(kw.value, ast.Name)
]
chain_self = any(
    isinstance(node, ast.Call)
    and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name)
    and node.func.id == "FunctionMiddlewareChain"
    and any(
        kw.arg == "middleware"
        and isinstance(kw.value, ast.List)
        and any(isinstance(e, ast.Name) and e.id == "self" for e in kw.value.elts)
        for kw in node.keywords
    )
    for node in ast.walk(configure)
)
print("component_registration_appends_same_middleware:", append_self)
print("component_context_name_identifiers:", context_names)
print("component_chain_contains_same_middleware:", chain_self)
PY

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echo '--- Middleware builder lifecycle ---'
rg -n -C 10 'async def add_middleware|async def get_middleware|_middleware|middleware_config' \
  packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/builder/builder.py \
  packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/builder/child_builder.py \
  packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/builder --glob '*.py' | head -220

echo '--- Circuit-breaker files ---'
fd -t f -i circuit packages/nvidia_nat_core | sort

echo '--- Circuit-breaker tests ---'
for file in $(fd -t f -i circuit packages/nvidia_nat_core/tests); do
  echo "=== $file"
  wc -l "$file"
  rg -n -C 5 'state|failure_count|context.name|multiple|threshold|short.circuit|CircuitBreaker' "$file" | head -220
done

echo '--- Static behavioral verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import ast

def get_class(path: str, name: str) -> ast.ClassDef:
    tree = ast.parse(Path(path).read_text())
    return next(node for node in tree.body if isinstance(node, ast.ClassDef) and node.name == name)

def get_method(cls: ast.ClassDef, name: str) -> ast.AST:
    return next(node for node in cls.body
                if isinstance(node, (ast.FunctionDef, ast.AsyncFunctionDef)) and node.name == name)

cb_cls = get_class(
    "packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py",
    "CircuitBreakerMiddleware",
)
cb_init = get_method(cb_cls, "__init__")
instance_fields = sorted({
    target.attr
    for node in ast.walk(cb_init)
    if isinstance(node, ast.Assign)
    for target in node.targets
    if isinstance(target, ast.Attribute)
    and isinstance(target.value, ast.Name)
    and target.value.id == "self"
    and target.attr in {
        "_state", "_failure_count", "_success_count",
        "_last_state_change", "_half_open_probing", "_lock",
    }
})
print("instance_state_fields:", instance_fields)

dyn_cls = get_class(
    "packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/dynamic/dynamic_function_middleware.py",
    "DynamicFunctionMiddleware",
)
register = get_method(dyn_cls, "_register_component_function")
append_self = any(
    isinstance(node, ast.Call)
    and isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
    and node.func.attr == "append"
    and any(isinstance(arg, ast.Name) and arg.id == "self" for arg in node.args)
    for node in ast.walk(register)
)
configure = get_method(dyn_cls, "_configure_component_function_middleware")
context_call = next(
    node for node in ast.walk(configure)
    if isinstance(node, ast.Call)
    and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name)
    and node.func.id == "FunctionMiddlewareContext"
)
context_name = next(keyword.value for keyword in context_call.keywords if keyword.arg == "name")
chain_call = next(
    node for node in ast.walk(configure)
    if isinstance(node, ast.Call)
    and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name)
    and node.func.id == "FunctionMiddlewareChain"
)
chain_middleware = next(keyword.value for keyword in chain_call.keywords if keyword.arg == "middleware")
print("component_registration_appends_same_middleware:", append_self)
print("component_context_name_expression:", ast.unparse(context_name))
print("component_chain_middleware_expression:", ast.unparse(chain_middleware))
PY

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echo '--- Concrete middleware construction ---'
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  -g '!**/node_modules/**' -g '!**/.venv/**' | head -240

echo '--- Corrected static behavioral verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import ast

def cls(path: str, name: str) -> ast.ClassDef:
    tree = ast.parse(Path(path).read_text())
    return next(node for node in tree.body if isinstance(node, ast.ClassDef) and node.name == name)

def method(node: ast.ClassDef, name: str) -> ast.AST:
    return next(item for item in node.body
                if isinstance(item, (ast.FunctionDef, ast.AsyncFunctionDef)) and item.name == name)

cb = cls(
    "packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py",
    "CircuitBreakerMiddleware",
)
init = method(cb, "__init__")
state_fields = sorted({
    target.attr
    for node in ast.walk(init)
    if isinstance(node, (ast.Assign, ast.AnnAssign))
    for target in (
        node.targets if isinstance(node, ast.Assign) else [node.target]
    )
    if isinstance(target, ast.Attribute)
    and isinstance(target.value, ast.Name)
    and target.value.id == "self"
    and target.attr in {
        "_state", "_failure_count", "_success_count",
        "_last_state_change", "_half_open_probing", "_lock",
    }
})
print("instance_state_fields:", state_fields)

dyn = cls(
    "packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/dynamic/dynamic_function_middleware.py",
    "DynamicFunctionMiddleware",
)
workflow_register = method(dyn, "_register_function")
workflow_appends_self = any(
    isinstance(node, ast.Call)
    and isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
    and node.func.attr == "append"
    and any(isinstance(arg, ast.Name) and arg.id == "self" for arg in node.args)
    for node in ast.walk(workflow_register)
)
component_configure = method(dyn, "_configure_component_function_middleware")
context_call = next(
    node for node in ast.walk(component_configure)
    if isinstance(node, ast.Call)
    and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name)
    and node.func.id == "FunctionMiddlewareContext"
)
context_name = next(keyword.value for keyword in context_call.keywords if keyword.arg == "name")
chain_call = next(
    node for node in ast.walk(component_configure)
    if isinstance(node, ast.Call)
    and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name)
    and node.func.id == "FunctionMiddlewareChain"
)
chain_middleware = next(keyword.value for keyword in chain_call.keywords if keyword.arg == "middleware")
print("workflow_registration_appends_same_middleware:", workflow_appends_self)
print("component_context_name_expression:", ast.unparse(context_name))
print("component_chain_middleware_expression:", ast.unparse(chain_middleware))
PY

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Track circuit-breaker state per intercepted target. The middleware stores state on one instance shared by all registered functions and components. A failure in one target can therefore short-circuit every target. Component contexts use only function_name, so context.name is not unique across components. Key state and locks by a stable target identity, such as component_name.function_name, and add coverage for independent target states.

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In
`@packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py`
around lines 58 - 66, The circuit-breaker fields initialized in __init__
currently share state across all intercepted targets. Replace the single state,
counters, probe flag, timestamp, and lock with per-target mappings keyed by a
stable identity combining component name and function_name, then update the
middleware’s state access and transition logic to use that key; add coverage
confirming failures in one target do not affect another.

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249-263: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Close the downstream iterator when the probe branch exits early.

The probe branch drives stream_iter manually. If the timeout fires, if the consumer breaks, or if the consumer raises, the code leaves stream_iter open. The downstream generator is then finalized only by garbage collection or by loop shutdown, so downstream finally blocks run at a nondeterministic time.

Use contextlib.aclosing to close the iterator deterministically.

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Add the import:

+import contextlib

Then wrap the iterator:

-                stream_iter = super().function_middleware_stream(
-                    *args,
-                    call_next=call_next,
-                    context=context,
-                    **kwargs,
-                ).__aiter__()
-                while True:
-                    try:
-                        async with asyncio.timeout(self._cb_config.probe_timeout):
-                            chunk = await stream_iter.__anext__()
-                    except StopAsyncIteration:
-                        break
-                    yield chunk
+                async with contextlib.aclosing(
+                        super().function_middleware_stream(
+                            *args,
+                            call_next=call_next,
+                            context=context,
+                            **kwargs,
+                        )) as stream:
+                    stream_iter = stream.__aiter__()
+                    while True:
+                        try:
+                            async with asyncio.timeout(self._cb_config.probe_timeout):
+                                chunk = await stream_iter.__anext__()
+                        except StopAsyncIteration:
+                            break
+                        yield chunk
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In
`@packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py`
around lines 249 - 263, Wrap the manually driven stream_iter in
contextlib.aclosing within the probe branch so it is deterministically closed
when iteration ends, times out, or the consumer exits early. Add the required
contextlib import and preserve the existing timeout and StopAsyncIteration
handling around stream_iter.__anext__().
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`@packages/nvidia_nat_core/tests/nat/middleware/test_circuit_breaker_middleware.py`:
- Around line 541-546: Ensure early-break cleanup is deterministic: in
packages/nvidia_nat_core/tests/nat/middleware/test_circuit_breaker_middleware.py:541-546,
wrap function_middleware_stream in contextlib.aclosing before asserting
half_open_probing is false; in
packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py:283-287,
document that the finally cleanup occurs during generator finalization and
verify the awaited lock acquisition completes through aclose().
- Around line 183-184: Update the CircuitBreakerOpenError assertion in the test
to escape the literal match pattern’s regex metacharacters, using re.escape for
the message text and adding the required re import.

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In
`@packages/nvidia_nat_core/src/nat/middleware/circuit_breaker/circuit_breaker_middleware.py`:
- Around line 249-263: Wrap the manually driven stream_iter in
contextlib.aclosing within the probe branch so it is deterministically closed
when iteration ends, times out, or the consumer exits early. Add the required
contextlib import and preserve the existing timeout and StopAsyncIteration
handling around stream_iter.__anext__().
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@sankhyanreyansh sankhyanreyansh changed the title feat(core): Add CircuitBreakerMiddleware for fault-tolerant tool execution feat(core): Add CircuitBreakerMiddleware for tool fault tolerance Aug 16, 2026
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@sankhyanreyansh what is the need for this to live in the repository rather than a third-party plugin?

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Hi @willkill07, thanks for checking in! A few reasons why this fits naturally as a built-in rather than a third-party plugin:

  • Precedent & Consistency: TimeoutMiddleware, CacheMiddleware, and DynamicFunctionMiddleware already live in nat.middleware as first-class built-ins. Circuit breaking falls into the same category of general-purpose reliability patterns – it isn't domain-specific like a model connector or custom provider. It follows the exact same DynamicFunctionMiddleware extension pattern and @register_middleware hook, keeping it consistent with how NAT treats cross-cutting execution concerns.
  • No External Dependencies: The implementation relies solely on asyncio, time, and pydantic, all standard library or existing core dependencies. It introduces no third-party supply-chain footprint.
  • Pairs Naturally with TimeoutMiddleware: Timeout and circuit breaking are two of the most common complementary patterns in production tool-calling pipelines (fail fast on hung calls, then halt traffic to degraded services). Having both in core lets users compose a complete reliability stack in workflow YAML without needing to pull in a separate external package for one half of that pattern.
  • Discoverability: Degraded external tools/APIs are a common failure mode across agent workflows. Keeping it in core ensures _type: circuit_breaker appears directly in the standard middleware documentation alongside timeout, cache, and logging.

That said, if the team prefers keeping nvidia_nat_core strictly minimal and having this live in an external or contrib plugin repository instead, I'm completely happy to follow your guidance!

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