Retry
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What is Retry?
Another attempt at an operation after an earlier attempt failed or its outcome could not be confirmed.
Retries can recover from temporary failures. For example, retry a signup email after the mail service briefly becomes unavailable. Limit attempts and wait between them; invalid addresses need correction instead. A failed response does not prove nothing happened, so avoid repeating side effects such as charges without duplicate protection.
How it relates to Orbit
For eligible failures, a failed prompt can retry on its complexity tier's configured fallback model from a different provider; preserved work and unsupported failure types prevent automatic fallback.
When you would use it
Use it for temporary failures when repeating the operation is safe, with a stopping rule.
Common operations
- Classify failures as temporary or permanent.
- Limit attempts and add waiting time.