When an automated loop exhausts its retry budget, the safe next step is not another turn through the same controller — it is a distinct recovery path with its own admission rules. Most automated workflows have a retry loop somewhere, and the interesting question is rarely what happens inside the lim...

The moment you let an automated system retry its own failed work, you have introduced a loop. And a loop with no bound is a liability. So you add a budget: three attempts, then stop and escalate. That part is easy to describe and easy to get wrong, because the hard question is not how many retries y...