amal66 makes AI outages less likely to derail legal work

The fork adds a second chance when an AI provider fails temporarily, with checks around switching models when needed.

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A brief provider hiccup should no longer immediately interrupt an AI-assisted task. amal66 has added retry behaviour for failures that appear temporary, alongside tests of how requests are routed and how fallback options behave.

That is a practical reliability move, but not a free one: a retry can make a response slower and can increase provider usage costs. The important operational questions are whether a cancelled request really stops, and whether retrying a streamed response can accidentally repeat work.

So what Legal teams relying on AI for time-sensitive drafting or analysis should care because better recovery from short-lived outages can make the tool more dependable in everyday use.

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`b7ef398b`	feat(chapter-29): retry transient LLM provider failures	Amal	2026-05-24	↗ GitHub
commit body Chapter: 29 - Provider resilience. Plain-English map: Wrap LLM provider calls with exponential-backoff retries for temporary errors like rate limits, timeouts, and provider outages. Why it matters: LLM providers occasionally fail for reasons the user cannot fix. A short, careful retry can turn a temporary outage into a normal response. Principle: Classify external failures before retrying. Retry transient problems, not bad requests or authentication errors. Precedent borrowed: The fork report's alternative-provider cluster and provider-abstraction work across active forks. Upstream base: willchen96/mike@d39f580. Original local commit: 1417930.
`d2406f43`	test(chapter-36): cover model routing and safe fallbacks	Amal	2026-05-24	↗ GitHub
commit body Chapter: 36 - Provider contract tests. Plain-English map: Add tests that verify known model IDs route to the right provider and unknown model preferences fall back safely. Why it matters: Provider routing mistakes are hard for users to diagnose. They show up only when a chat request hits the wrong external API or an unknown model string. Principle: Provider abstraction needs tests that define its contract. Precedent borrowed: The fork report's alternative-provider cluster. Upstream base: willchen96/mike@d39f580. Original local commit: a706a79.

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