Catches the mistakes coding agents repeat before they merge: a pull-request gate with no model call and no API key.
Short answer: Retry only transient 429/502/503/504 with backoff + jitter. Retrying every error, at once, turns one outage into many.
Group: Reliability and fallbacks. Status: stable. Generated from the rule definitions; do not edit by hand.
Playground: https://brevio.pro/tools/agent-guard-playground?rule=R5.3
Bounded retry with jitter: retry only transient 429/502/503/504 with backoff + jitter.
Retrying every error, at once, turns one outage into many.
while (true) { try { return await call(); } catch {} }
retry(call, { on: [429, 502, 503, 504], backoff: 'exponential', jitter: true })
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