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Agent Error Classification and Recovery Strategy

Teaches agents to classify errors as transient vs permanent and choose the right recovery strategy: retry with backoff, circuit break, or graceful degradation.

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$ openclaw agent logs --filter errors
$ openclaw config set agent.retry.max 3
$ openclaw config set agent.circuit_breaker.threshold 5

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Classifying Agent Errors: Transient vs Permanent Recovery Strategies

Agent Error Classification and Recovery Strategy

# Agent Error Classification Properly classifying errors is the foundation of resilient agent behavior. ## Error Categories ### Transient Errors - Network timeouts, rate limiting (429), temporary unavailability (503) **Recovery:** Exponential backoff with jitter, circuit breaker pattern ### Perm

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