Retry policy
Goals
- Retry per HTTP request, not per multi-step flow.
- Preserve ordering by retrying only the current step.
- Avoid duplicating non-idempotent operations.
Defaults
- Attempts: 3
- Max delay cap: 30000 ms
- Jitter: 0.1 (10 percent)
- Provider defaults:
- Telegram min delay: 400 ms
- Discord min delay: 500 ms
Behavior
Discord
- Retries only on rate-limit errors (HTTP 429).
- Uses Discord
retry_afterwhen available, otherwise exponential backoff.
Telegram
- Retries on transient errors (429, timeout, connect/reset/closed, temporarily unavailable).
- Uses
retry_afterwhen available, otherwise exponential backoff. - Markdown parse errors are not retried; they fall back to plain text.
Configuration
Set retry policy per provider in~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json:
Notes
- Retries apply per request (message send, media upload, reaction, poll, sticker).
- Composite flows do not retry completed steps.