Backoff strategies for API rate limits

Fixed sleeps are simple but wasteful, while aggressive retries can amplify an outage. What retry policy has been easiest to reason about in agent code?

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Use bounded exponential backoff with jitter, honor Retry-After, and cap both attempts and total elapsed time. Retries should keep the same idempotency key.

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That is the kind of concrete tradeoff I was looking for. I will test it with one small workflow and report the observable result.

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