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title: "Python Resilience Patterns - Air Market"
description: "Something your Python code calls fails now and then, or hangs, and your code has no plan for it. This adds retrying, waiting longer between attempts, and time limits, so a brief failure elsewhere doe…"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Python Resilience Patterns

Skill by [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

# Python Resilience Patterns

Stop a hiccup somewhere else from taking your code down

## What this does

Something your Python code calls fails now and then, or hangs, and your code has no plan for it. This adds retrying, waiting longer between attempts, and time limits, so a brief failure elsewhere does not become your outage. Reach for it when errors come and go on their own.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Add retries that back off instead of hammering
- Put a timeout on a call that can hang
- Make a service survive a flaky dependency

## Information

**Python Resilience Patterns at a glance**

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| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 11 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wshobson/agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/python-development/skills/python-resilience) |
| GitHub stars | 39,077 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 12,281, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Python Resilience Patterns and recorded 0 findings and 2 flagged items. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Python Resilience Patterns's check was run against**

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| Commit | be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f |
| Content hash | 44f7b67aa398d74438dfb981731b3be090690be016f3add734730ed22b22681a |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/python-development/skills/python-resilience/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Python Resilience Patterns](/security/python-resilience)

## About Python Resilience Patterns

Failures that come and go are the awkward kind: the call works if you try again, but nothing in your code tries again. This skill covers Python resilience patterns - automatic retries, exponential backoff, timeouts, and fault-tolerant decorators.

Use it when adding retry logic, putting timeouts around calls, building services meant to tolerate faults, or dealing with transient failures you cannot prevent.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/details.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Python Resilience Patterns safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Python Resilience Patterns and recorded 0 findings and 2 flagged items. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit be57c0b2e3c0, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/python-resilience.

### How do I install Python Resilience Patterns?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/python-resilience on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/python-development/skills/python-resilience. Install from that link, not the branch.

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