retry-with-backoff
CommunityRetry transient API failures gracefully.
Authorjimmymalhan
Version1.0.0
Installs0
System Documentation
What problem does it solve?
This Skill prevents overwhelming services by implementing a smart retry strategy for transient API errors, ensuring robustness and reliability in automated processes.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Intelligent Retries: Automatically retries API calls that fail due to temporary issues like rate limiting (429) or service unavailability (503).
- Configurable Backoff: Implements exponential backoff to gradually increase wait times between retries, preventing further load on the target service.
- Use Case: When making frequent calls to an external API, if you encounter a 429 Too Many Requests error, this skill will pause execution for a calculated duration before retrying the request, avoiding immediate failure and respecting API limits.
Quick Start
Use the retry-with-backoff skill to execute the provided curl command, retrying up to 5 times with exponential backoff on 429 or 503 errors.
Dependency Matrix
Required Modules
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references
💻 Claude Code Installation
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Please help me install this Skill: Name: retry-with-backoff Download link: https://github.com/jimmymalhan/codereview-pilot/archive/main.zip#retry-with-backoff Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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