deangrant Retries, Backoff, and Resilience
Use this skill when callers retry HTTP dependencies safely.
1. What to retry
Retry transient failures (408, 429, 502, 503, 504, network blips). Do not
blindly retry non-idempotent POSTs without Idempotency-Key.
2. Backoff
Exponential backoff + jitter. Honor Retry-After when present — it
overrides client-computed delay. Cap attempts.
3. Defense in depth
Explicit timeouts on outbound calls; circuit breakers to shed load; bulkheads between dependency classes.
4. Quick checklist
- Retry policy matches idempotency.
- Backoff + jitter; honor Retry-After.
- Timeouts always set.
- Circuit breaker on unstable deps.
See reference.md and examples.md.