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Fallbacks and retries

• When the Second Retry Climbs: A Ladder for Three Model Tiers
• Reading 409 and 5xx Responses Before You Trust a Retry
• Routing Around a Stopped Model: A Fallback Chain
• The Hard Stop for a Retry Loop That Never Ends
• The Retry Budget: Capping Second Passes per Tier
• The Retry Budget: How Many Second Passes Before Cheap Loses
• The Retry Prompt: What to Add, Cut and How to Test It
• When a Fallback Model Fails: Writing the Chain and the Stop Rule
• When a Retry Loop Never Ends: The Hard Stop for an Agent
• Writing a Fallback Chain for Multi-Model Workloads
• Writing the Fallback Chain When an MCP Server Goes Down
• Writing the Fallback Script for a Support Agent That Gets Stuck