ratchet_get_circuit
Check whether surge containment is holding your work
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Call this when a begin returned "approval_required" or "denied" and the reason mentions a circuit breaker. A breaker opens when an effect type is being performed far more often than its configured hourly ceiling — usually because something is looping.
What to do with the answer:
- If a breaker is open, STOP creating effects of that type. Retrying will not help and each attempt is recorded.
- resets_at tells you when it closes itself. If it is null, a human opened it deliberately and only a human will close it — do not wait, and do not poll.
- Report the reason to your operator and stop. Do not attempt to work around it by renaming the effect type, splitting the work across keys, or using a different idempotency key: that defeats a safety control that exists to protect the people your actions reach.
- effect_type "*" means every effect type in the workspace is stopped.
Input schema
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {},
"additionalProperties": false
}