graceful-fail

Part of SelfHeal — autonomous error recovery for AI agents.

Self-healing API proxy for AI agents. Route your HTTP calls through Graceful Fail and get structured, LLM-powered fix instructions when APIs return errors.

Instead of your agent crashing on a 422 or retrying a 503 blindly, it gets back:

{
  "is_retriable": false,
  "actionable_fix_for_agent": "Remove 'name' field. Add 'first_name' and 'last_name' as separate string fields.",
  "suggested_payload_diff": {
    "remove": ["name"],
    "add": {"first_name": "string", "last_name": "string"}
  },
  "error_category": "validation_error"
}

Successful requests (2xx/3xx) pass through with zero overhead. You only pay when the LLM is invoked on a failed request.

Install

pip install graceful-fail

With LangChain support:

pip install 'graceful-fail[langchain]'

Quick Start

from graceful_fail import GracefulFail

gf = GracefulFail(api_key="gf_your_key")

response = gf.post("https://api.example.com/users", json={"name": "Alice"})

if response.intercepted:
    # The API returned an error — here's exactly how to fix it
    print(response.error_analysis.actionable_fix_for_agent)
    print(response.error_analysis.suggested_payload_diff)
else:
    # Success — here's the data
    print(response.data)

Async Support

from graceful_fail import GracefulFailAsync

async with GracefulFailAsync(api_key="gf_your_key") as gf:
    response = await gf.post("https://api.example.com/users", json={"name": "Alice"})

LangChain Integration

As a Tool (recommended for agents)

from graceful_fail.langchain import GracefulFailTool
from langchain.agents import create_react_agent

tool = GracefulFailTool(api_key="gf_your_key")
agent = create_react_agent(llm, [tool])

# Your agent now gets structured fix instructions instead of raw HTTP errors

As a Requests Wrapper

Drop-in replacement for LangChain's TextRequestsWrapper:

from graceful_fail.langchain import GracefulFailRequests

requests = GracefulFailRequests(api_key="gf_your_key")
result = requests.get("https://api.example.com/users")

requests-Compatible Session

For codebases already using requests:

from graceful_fail.patch import GracefulFailSession

session = GracefulFailSession(api_key="gf_your_key")
resp = session.post("https://api.example.com/users", json={"name": "Alice"})

print(resp.status_code)
print(resp.json())

if resp.graceful_fail_intercepted:
    print(resp.error_analysis)

Response Object

Every call returns a GracefulFailResponse:

ErrorAnalysis Fields

Auto-Apply Fix

if response.intercepted:
    fixed_payload = response.error_analysis.suggested_payload_diff.apply(original_payload)
    retry_response = gf.post(url, json=fixed_payload)

Get Your API Key

1. Sign up at selfheal.dev
2. Create an API key in the dashboard
3. Free tier: 500 requests/month

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