Design software that keeps working with reduced features when an optional service is unavailable. The skill provides patterns for early availability checks, cached results, and messages explaining what is missing, which features are affected, and how to restore them.
Graceful Degradation with Helpful Messages
Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.
When optional services are unavailable, degrade gracefully with actionable fallback messages.
Check availability at the start, cache the result, and provide helpful messages that explain what's missing and how to fix it.
let lmstudioAvailable: boolean | null = null;
let lastCheck = 0;
const CACHE_TTL = 60000; // 60 seconds
async function checkLMStudio(): Promise<boolean> {
const now = Date.now();
if (lmstudioAvailable !== null && now - lastCheck < CACHE_TTL) {
return lmstudioAvailable;
}
try {
const response = await fetch('http://localhost:1234/v1/models', {
signal: AbortSignal.timeout(2000)
});
lmstudioAvailable = response.ok;
} catch {
lmstudioAvailable = false;
}
lastCheck = now;
return lmstudioAvailable;
}
// Usage
if (!await checkLMStudio()) {
return {
result: 'continue',
message: `LMStudio not available at localhost:1234.
To enable Godel-Prover tactic suggestions:
1. Install LMStudio from https://lmstudio.ai/
2. Load "Goedel-Prover-V2-8B" model
3. Start the local server on port 1234
Continuing without AI-assisted tactics...`
};
}
[Service] not available at [endpoint].
To enable [feature]:
1. [Step to install/start]
2. [Configuration step if needed]
3. [Verification step]
Continuing without [degraded feature]...
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