Skip to main content
Agents occasionally have outages or rate limits — usually short, but they happen. vly has fallback behavior to keep you working.

​
How it works

1

Your prompt submits with the selected agent

Normal path.
2

If the agent is unavailable

The provider returns an error (rate limit, outage, timeout). vly surfaces a notification.
3

vly suggests a fallback

“OpenAI Codex is currently unavailable. Run with Claude Code instead?”
4

You confirm or wait

Confirm: same prompt runs on the fallback agent. Wait: vly polls and notifies when the original agent is back.

​
Configuring auto-fallback

By default, vly asks before falling back. To make fallback automatic:
  • Workspace settings → Preferences → “Auto-fallback to next available agent”. Toggle on.
The fallback order is:
  1. Selected agent
  2. Claude Code (if not selected)
  3. OpenAI Codex (if not selected)
  4. Gemini CLI (if not selected)

​
When you might disable auto-fallback

For prompts where agent choice matters (e.g., you specifically picked Gemini for layout work), disable auto-fallback so vly waits rather than silently switching to a less-suitable agent.

​
Status page

Live status of all three agents at status.vly.ai. When an agent has a multi-hour outage, we post on the status page and email workspace owners.

Choosing an agent

Decision tree.

Status page

Live agent status.

Agent preferences

Configure defaults.
Last modified on April 18, 2026