February 2026 monthly summary for BerriAI/litellm focusing on reliability enhancements and guardrail resilience. Delivered a configurable Guardrail Endpoint Connectivity Fallback Mechanism to allow fail-open or fail-closed behavior in case of generic guardrail endpoint failures, significantly improving uptime and user experience during partial outages. The fallback logic was integrated with litellm.Timeout to ensure consistent timeout handling when the guardrail endpoint is unavailable. No major bugs fixed this month; the work emphasized stability, maintainability, and clear configuration for operators. Overall impact: increased system robustness, improved end-user experience during failure scenarios, and stronger readiness for production release. Technologies/skills demonstrated: feature toggling via configuration, robust error handling, timeout-aware resilience, and thorough commit hygiene with traceable changes.