Retry with backoff

Retry with backoff is a strategy of retrying a failed operation after progressively longer waits, often doubling the delay and adding randomness, so temporary failures can recover without overloading the service.

Retry with backoff sits in the Infrastructure part of the Agentik {OS} glossary, which defines the words used to build and run AI agent systems.

Also called exponential backoff, retry policy, backoff and jitter.