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Retry with backoff and jitter

also retries, exponential backoff

Trying a failed call again after a growing, slightly randomised delay, so many clients do not retry in lockstep and flatten the service they are waiting for.

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You wrapped model and tool calls in retries that wait 1, 2, 4 seconds plus a random offset.

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Retries use exponential backoff with jitter and a cap, and only on errors that are safe to retry.