# Adaptivity & Resilience Overview

Make your agents robust, reactive, and self-healing using EMOS's [Event-Driven Architecture](../../concepts/events-and-actions.md).

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:::{grid-item-card} {material-regular}`memory;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Multiprocessing
:link: multiprocessing
:link-type: doc

Run components in separate processes -- isolate failures, add automatic recovery.
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:::{grid-item-card} {material-regular}`healing;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Self-Healing Fallbacks
:link: fallback-recipes
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Swap models, switch algorithms, and restart hardware -- the same API for both layers.
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:::{grid-item-card} {material-regular}`bolt;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Event-Driven Cognition
:link: event-driven-cognition
:link-type: doc

Run a lightweight detector continuously, wake the heavy VLM only when needed.
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:::{grid-item-card} {material-regular}`sensors;1.2em;sd-text-primary` External Reflexes
:link: external-reflexes
:link-type: doc

React to the environment -- person detected triggers vision-following mode.
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:::{grid-item-card} {material-regular}`sync_alt;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Cross-Component Healing
:link: cross-component-events
:link-type: doc

Components monitor each other -- controller stuck triggers drive manager unblock.
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:::{grid-item-card} {material-regular}`hub;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Logic Gates & Composed Events
:link: composed-events
:link-type: doc

Combine conditions with AND, OR, NOT for smarter, multi-topic event triggers.
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:::{grid-item-card} {material-regular}`dynamic_feed;1.2em;sd-text-primary` Context-Aware Actions
:link: context-aware-actions
:link-type: doc

Inject live topic data into action arguments -- semantic navigation, dynamic prompts.
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