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+# Provider Fallback & Dynamic Switching Guide
+
+**Production-grade LLM provider fallback for long-running agents**
+
+## Overview
+
+The `ProviderManager` and `LongRunningAgent` classes provide enterprise-grade provider fallback, health monitoring, cost optimization, and automatic recovery for long-running AI agents.
+
+### Key Features
+
+- ✅ **Automatic Fallback** - Seamless switching between providers on failure
+- ✅ **Circuit Breaker** - Prevents cascading failures with automatic recovery
+- ✅ **Health Monitoring** - Real-time provider health tracking
+- ✅ **Cost Optimization** - Intelligent provider selection based on cost/performance
+- ✅ **Retry Logic** - Exponential/linear backoff for transient errors
+- ✅ **Checkpointing** - Save/restore agent state for crash recovery
+- ✅ **Budget Control** - Hard limits on spending and runtime
+- ✅ **Performance Tracking** - Latency, success rate, and token usage metrics
+
+## Quick Start
+
+### Basic Provider Fallback
+
+```typescript
+import { ProviderManager, ProviderConfig } from 'agentic-flow/core/provider-manager';
+
+// Configure providers
+const providers: ProviderConfig[] = [
+  {
+    name: 'gemini',
+    apiKey: process.env.GOOGLE_GEMINI_API_KEY,
+    priority: 1, // Try first
+    maxRetries: 3,
+    timeout: 30000,
+    costPerToken: 0.00015,
+    enabled: true
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'anthropic',
+    apiKey: process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY,
+    priority: 2, // Fallback
+    maxRetries: 3,
+    timeout: 60000,
+    costPerToken: 0.003,
+    enabled: true
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'onnx',
+    priority: 3, // Last resort (free, local)
+    maxRetries: 2,
+    timeout: 120000,
+    costPerToken: 0,
+    enabled: true
+  }
+];
+
+// Initialize manager
+const manager = new ProviderManager(providers, {
+  type: 'priority', // or 'cost-optimized', 'performance-optimized', 'round-robin'
+  maxFailures: 3,
+  recoveryTime: 60000,
+  retryBackoff: 'exponential'
+});
+
+// Execute with automatic fallback
+const { result, provider, attempts } = await manager.executeWithFallback(
+  async (providerName) => {
+    // Your LLM API call here
+    return await callLLM(providerName, prompt);
+  }
+);
+
+console.log(`Success with ${provider} after ${attempts} attempts`);
+```
+
+### Long-Running Agent
+
+```typescript
+import { LongRunningAgent } from 'agentic-flow/core/long-running-agent';
+
+// Create agent
+const agent = new LongRunningAgent({
+  agentName: 'research-agent',
+  providers,
+  fallbackStrategy: {
+    type: 'cost-optimized',
+    maxFailures: 3,
+    recoveryTime: 60000,
+    retryBackoff: 'exponential',
+    costThreshold: 0.50, // Max $0.50 per request
+    latencyThreshold: 30000 // Max 30s per request
+  },
+  checkpointInterval: 30000, // Save state every 30s
+  maxRuntime: 3600000, // Max 1 hour
+  costBudget: 5.00 // Max $5 total
+});
+
+await agent.start();
+
+// Execute tasks with automatic provider selection
+const result = await agent.executeTask({
+  name: 'analyze-code',
+  complexity: 'complex', // 'simple' | 'medium' | 'complex'
+  estimatedTokens: 5000,
+  execute: async (provider) => {
+    return await analyzeCode(provider, code);
+  }
+});
+
+// Get status
+const status = agent.getStatus();
+console.log(`Completed: ${status.completedTasks}, Cost: $${status.totalCost}`);
+
+await agent.stop();
+```
+
+## Fallback Strategies
+
+### 1. Priority-Based (Default)
+
+Tries providers in priority order (1 = highest).
+
+```typescript
+{
+  type: 'priority',
+  maxFailures: 3,
+  recoveryTime: 60000,
+  retryBackoff: 'exponential'
+}
+```
+
+**Use Case:** Prefer specific provider (e.g., Claude for quality)
+
+### 2. Cost-Optimized
+
+Selects cheapest provider for estimated token count.
+
+```typescript
+{
+  type: 'cost-optimized',
+  maxFailures: 3,
+  recoveryTime: 60000,
+  retryBackoff: 'exponential',
+  costThreshold: 0.50 // Max $0.50 per request
+}
+```
+
+**Use Case:** High-volume applications, budget constraints
+
+### 3. Performance-Optimized
+
+Selects provider with best latency and success rate.
+
+```typescript
+{
+  type: 'performance-optimized',
+  maxFailures: 3,
+  recoveryTime: 60000,
+  retryBackoff: 'exponential',
+  latencyThreshold: 30000 // Max 30s
+}
+```
+
+**Use Case:** Real-time applications, user-facing services
+
+### 4. Round-Robin
+
+Distributes load evenly across providers.
+
+```typescript
+{
+  type: 'round-robin',
+  maxFailures: 3,
+  recoveryTime: 60000,
+  retryBackoff: 'exponential'
+}
+```
+
+**Use Case:** Load balancing, testing multiple providers
+
+## Task Complexity Heuristics
+
+The system applies intelligent heuristics based on task complexity:
+
+### Simple Tasks → Prefer Gemini/ONNX
+```typescript
+await agent.executeTask({
+  name: 'format-code',
+  complexity: 'simple', // Fast, cheap providers preferred
+  estimatedTokens: 200,
+  execute: async (provider) => formatCode(code)
+});
+```
+
+**Rationale:** Simple tasks don't need Claude's reasoning power
+
+### Medium Tasks → Auto-Optimized
+```typescript
+await agent.executeTask({
+  name: 'refactor-function',
+  complexity: 'medium', // Balance cost/quality
+  estimatedTokens: 1500,
+  execute: async (provider) => refactorFunction(code)
+});
+```
+
+**Rationale:** Uses fallback strategy (cost/performance)
+
+### Complex Tasks → Prefer Claude
+```typescript
+await agent.executeTask({
+  name: 'design-architecture',
+  complexity: 'complex', // Quality matters most
+  estimatedTokens: 5000,
+  execute: async (provider) => designArchitecture(requirements)
+});
+```
+
+**Rationale:** Complex reasoning benefits from Claude's capabilities
+
+## Circuit Breaker
+
+Prevents cascading failures by temporarily disabling failing providers.
+
+### How It Works
+
+1. **Failure Tracking:** Count consecutive failures per provider
+2. **Threshold:** Open circuit after N failures (configurable)
+3. **Recovery:** Automatically recover after timeout
+4. **Fallback:** Use next available provider
+
+### Configuration
+
+```typescript
+{
+  maxFailures: 3, // Open circuit after 3 consecutive failures
+  recoveryTime: 60000, // Try recovery after 60 seconds
+  retryBackoff: 'exponential' // 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s...
+}
+```
+
+### Monitoring
+
+```typescript
+const health = manager.getHealth();
+
+health.forEach(h => {
+  console.log(`${h.provider}:`);
+  console.log(`  Circuit Breaker: ${h.circuitBreakerOpen ? 'OPEN' : 'CLOSED'}`);
+  console.log(`  Consecutive Failures: ${h.consecutiveFailures}`);
+  console.log(`  Success Rate: ${(h.successRate * 100).toFixed(1)}%`);
+});
+```
+
+## Cost Tracking & Optimization
+
+### Real-Time Cost Monitoring
+
+```typescript
+const costs = manager.getCostSummary();
+
+console.log(`Total: $${costs.total.toFixed(4)}`);
+console.log(`Tokens: ${costs.totalTokens.toLocaleString()}`);
+
+for (const [provider, cost] of Object.entries(costs.byProvider)) {
+  console.log(`  ${provider}: $${cost.toFixed(4)}`);
+}
+```
+
+### Budget Constraints
+
+```typescript
+const agent = new LongRunningAgent({
+  agentName: 'budget-agent',
+  providers,
+  costBudget: 10.00, // Hard limit: $10
+  // ... other config
+});
+
+// Agent automatically stops when budget exceeded
+```
+
+### Cost-Per-Provider Configuration
+
+```typescript
+const providers: ProviderConfig[] = [
+  {
+    name: 'gemini',
+    costPerToken: 0.00015, // $0.15 per 1M tokens
+    // ...
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'anthropic',
+    costPerToken: 0.003, // $3 per 1M tokens (Sonnet)
+    // ...
+  },
+  {
+    name: 'onnx',
+    costPerToken: 0, // FREE (local)
+    // ...
+  }
+];
+```
+
+## Health Monitoring
+
+### Automatic Health Checks
+
+```typescript
+const providers: ProviderConfig[] = [
+  {
+    name: 'gemini',
+    healthCheckInterval: 60000, // Check every minute
+    // ...
+  }
+];
+```
+
+### Manual Health Check
+
+```typescript
+const health = manager.getHealth();
+
+health.forEach(h => {
+  console.log(`${h.provider}:`);
+  console.log(`  Healthy: ${h.isHealthy}`);
+  console.log(`  Success Rate: ${(h.successRate * 100).toFixed(1)}%`);
+  console.log(`  Avg Latency: ${h.averageLatency.toFixed(0)}ms`);
+  console.log(`  Error Rate: ${(h.errorRate * 100).toFixed(1)}%`);
+});
+```
+
+### Metrics Collection
+
+```typescript
+const metrics = manager.getMetrics();
+
+metrics.forEach(m => {
+  console.log(`${m.provider}:`);
+  console.log(`  Total Requests: ${m.totalRequests}`);
+  console.log(`  Successful: ${m.successfulRequests}`);
+  console.log(`  Failed: ${m.failedRequests}`);
+  console.log(`  Avg Latency: ${m.averageLatency.toFixed(0)}ms`);
+  console.log(`  Total Cost: $${m.totalCost.toFixed(4)}`);
+});
+```
+
+## Checkpointing & Recovery
+
+### Automatic Checkpoints
+
+```typescript
+const agent = new LongRunningAgent({
+  agentName: 'checkpoint-agent',
+  providers,
+  checkpointInterval: 30000, // Save every 30 seconds
+  // ...
+});
+
+await agent.start();
+
+// Agent automatically saves checkpoints every 30s
+// On crash, restore from last checkpoint
+```
+
+### Manual Checkpoint Management
+
+```typescript
+// Get all checkpoints
+const metrics = agent.getMetrics();
+const checkpoints = metrics.checkpoints;
+
+// Restore from specific checkpoint
+const lastCheckpoint = checkpoints[checkpoints.length - 1];
+agent.restoreFromCheckpoint(lastCheckpoint);
+```
+
+### Checkpoint Data
+
+```typescript
+interface AgentCheckpoint {
+  timestamp: Date;
+  taskProgress: number; // 0-1
+  currentProvider: string;
+  totalCost: number;
+  totalTokens: number;
+  completedTasks: number;
+  failedTasks: number;
+  state: Record<string, any>; // Custom state
+}
+```
+
+## Retry Logic
+
+### Exponential Backoff (Recommended)
+
+```typescript
+{
+  retryBackoff: 'exponential'
+}
+```
+
+**Delays:** 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 16s, 30s (max)
+
+**Use Case:** Rate limits, transient errors
+
+### Linear Backoff
+
+```typescript
+{
+  retryBackoff: 'linear'
+}
+```
+
+**Delays:** 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 10s (max)
+
+**Use Case:** Predictable retry patterns
+
+### Retryable Errors
+
+Automatically retried:
+- `rate limit`
+- `timeout`
+- `connection`
+- `network`
+- HTTP 503, 502, 429
+
+Non-retryable errors fail immediately:
+- Authentication errors
+- Invalid requests
+- HTTP 4xx (except 429)
+
+## Production Best Practices
+
+### 1. Multi-Provider Strategy
+
+```typescript
+const providers: ProviderConfig[] = [
+  // Primary: Fast & cheap for simple tasks
+  { name: 'gemini', priority: 1, costPerToken: 0.00015 },
+
+  // Fallback: High quality for complex tasks
+  { name: 'anthropic', priority: 2, costPerToken: 0.003 },
+
+  // Emergency: Free local inference
+  { name: 'onnx', priority: 3, costPerToken: 0 }
+];
+```
+
+### 2. Cost Optimization
+
+```typescript
+// Use cost-optimized strategy for high-volume
+const agent = new LongRunningAgent({
+  agentName: 'production-agent',
+  providers,
+  fallbackStrategy: {
+    type: 'cost-optimized',
+    costThreshold: 0.50
+  },
+  costBudget: 100.00 // Daily budget
+});
+```
+
+### 3. Health Monitoring
+
+```typescript
+// Monitor provider health every minute
+const providers: ProviderConfig[] = [
+  {
+    name: 'gemini',
+    healthCheckInterval: 60000,
+    enabled: true
+  }
+];
+
+// Check health before critical operations
+const health = manager.getHealth();
+const unhealthy = health.filter(h => !h.isHealthy);
+
+if (unhealthy.length > 0) {
+  console.warn('Unhealthy providers:', unhealthy.map(h => h.provider));
+}
+```
+
+### 4. Graceful Degradation
+
+```typescript
+// Prefer quality, fallback to cost
+const providers: ProviderConfig[] = [
+  { name: 'anthropic', priority: 1 }, // Best quality
+  { name: 'gemini', priority: 2 },     // Cheaper fallback
+  { name: 'onnx', priority: 3 }        // Always available
+];
+```
+
+### 5. Circuit Breaker Tuning
+
+```typescript
+{
+  maxFailures: 5, // More tolerant in production
+  recoveryTime: 300000, // 5 minutes before retry
+  retryBackoff: 'exponential'
+}
+```
+
+## Docker Validation
+
+### Build Image
+
+```bash
+docker build -f Dockerfile.provider-fallback -t agentic-flow-provider-fallback .
+```
+
+### Run Tests
+
+```bash
+# With Gemini API key
+docker run --rm \
+  -e GOOGLE_GEMINI_API_KEY=your_key_here \
+  agentic-flow-provider-fallback
+
+# ONNX only (no API key needed)
+docker run --rm agentic-flow-provider-fallback
+```
+
+### Expected Output
+
+```
+✅ Provider Fallback Validation Test
+====================================
+
+📋 Testing Provider Manager...
+
+1️⃣  Building TypeScript...
+✅ Build complete
+
+2️⃣  Running provider fallback example...
+   Using Gemini API key: AIza...
+🚀 Starting Long-Running Agent with Provider Fallback
+
+📋 Task 1: Simple Code Generation (Gemini optimal)
+  Using provider: gemini
+  ✅ Result: { code: 'console.log("Hello World");', provider: 'gemini' }
+
+📋 Task 2: Complex Architecture Design (Claude optimal)
+  Using provider: anthropic
+  ✅ Result: { architecture: 'Event-driven microservices', provider: 'anthropic' }
+
+📈 Provider Health:
+gemini:
+  Healthy: true
+  Success Rate: 100.0%
+  Circuit Breaker: CLOSED
+
+✅ All provider fallback tests passed!
+```
+
+## API Reference
+
+### ProviderManager
+
+```typescript
+class ProviderManager {
+  constructor(providers: ProviderConfig[], strategy: FallbackStrategy);
+
+  selectProvider(
+    taskComplexity?: 'simple' | 'medium' | 'complex',
+    estimatedTokens?: number
+  ): Promise<ProviderType>;
+
+  executeWithFallback<T>(
+    requestFn: (provider: ProviderType) => Promise<T>,
+    taskComplexity?: 'simple' | 'medium' | 'complex',
+    estimatedTokens?: number
+  ): Promise<{ result: T; provider: ProviderType; attempts: number }>;
+
+  getMetrics(): ProviderMetrics[];
+  getHealth(): ProviderHealth[];
+  getCostSummary(): { total: number; byProvider: Record<ProviderType, number>; totalTokens: number };
+  destroy(): void;
+}
+```
+
+### LongRunningAgent
+
+```typescript
+class LongRunningAgent {
+  constructor(config: LongRunningAgentConfig);
+
+  start(): Promise<void>;
+  stop(): Promise<void>;
+
+  executeTask<T>(task: {
+    name: string;
+    complexity: 'simple' | 'medium' | 'complex';
+    estimatedTokens?: number;
+    execute: (provider: string) => Promise<T>;
+  }): Promise<T>;
+
+  getStatus(): AgentStatus;
+  getMetrics(): AgentMetrics;
+  restoreFromCheckpoint(checkpoint: AgentCheckpoint): void;
+}
+```
+
+## Examples
+
+See `src/examples/use-provider-fallback.ts` for complete working examples.
+
+## Support
+
+- **GitHub Issues:** https://github.com/ruvnet/agentic-flow/issues
+- **Documentation:** https://github.com/ruvnet/agentic-flow#readme
+- **Discord:** Coming soon
+
+## License
+
+MIT - See LICENSE file for details