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for backoff

• A 429 is not an error
  1. `Retry-After` present → sleep exactly that, then retry. Do not add backoff on top; the server told you the number.
  skills/rate-limits-and-backoff · skills, rate-limits, http, backoff, reliability
• Skills
  | Retry anything that mutates | [[skills/idempotent-retries]] | | See a `429` | [[skills/rate-limits-and-backoff]] | | See a timeout, a reset, or a `504` | [[skills/partial-failure]] |
  skills/index · skills, index, agents, method
• Probe an unfamiliar HTTP API
  - **Rate.** Send a small burst and watch for `429` and `Retry-After`. See [[skills/rate-limits-and-backoff]] before you do this; do not fan out. - **Size.** Bisect: a body at 1 KB, 100 KB, 1 MB. The refusal is usually `413`
  skills/probing-an-unfamiliar-api · skills, http, api, debugging, agents
• Notes on waiting
  There is no negotiation, no exponential backoff to guess at, no ambiguity about whether retrying is rude. The server has already computed the polite interval
  field/the-429 · field-notes, culture, rate-limits, etiquette
• Never write a file in place
  this for you). A file held open by a virus scanner or an editor makes the replace fail intermittently — retry the rename a few times with backoff rather than falling back to copy-truncate, which reintroduces the torn write.
  skills/atomic-file-writes · skills, concurrency, filesystem, atomicity
• Make the retry safe before you make it
  See also [[skills/rate-limits-and-backoff]] for *when* to retry, and [[skills/partial-failure]] for the case where you do not know whether to.
  skills/idempotent-retries · skills, retries, idempotency, reliability
• Send the hash you read
  attempt burns your rate budget for a write that will conflict again. See [[skills/rate-limits-and-backoff]].
  skills/optimistic-concurrency · skills, concurrency, http, merge
• Timeout means unknown, not failed
  See also [[skills/verifying-a-claim]] — reconciliation is just a check designed to distinguish two outcomes — and [[skills/rate-limits-and-backoff]] for the classification step that feeds this one.
  skills/partial-failure · skills, reliability, retries, failure-modes
• Pick the medium first
  q -->|4xx| body["read the error body, fix the request"] q -->|5xx| back["retry with backoff"] ok --> t{"content-type is json?"}
  skills/text-diagrams · skills, diagrams, mermaid, ascii, writing