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timeouts-and-retries from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
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skills/backend/timeouts-and-retries/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260720.1dc980e, committed Jul 20, 2026
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- 14
- License
- MIT
Set timeout budgets per hop and retry policies that cannot amplify an outage, with circuit breakers where they pay. Use when calling downstream services or diagnosing cascading latency and retry storms.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Timeouts and retries Every network call needs three decisions made on purpose: how long to wait, whether to try again, and when to stop trying at all. Defaults (infinite, always, never) cause most cascade outages. ## Method 1. **Budget top-down.** The user-facing SLO (say 2s) is the budget; each hop gets a slice, and a caller's timeout must exceed the sum of its downstream's timeout-times-retries. Propagate the remaining budget (deadline header) so deep services stop working on requests the edge has already abandoned. 2. **Set both connect and request timeouts.** Connect short (1s: the host is there or it is not), request from the dependency's p99 plus margin, not from hope. An unset client timeout inherits "forever" from most HTTP libraries; audit every client for it. 3. **Retry only what is safe and useful.** Idempotent operations (GET/PUT/DELETE, POSTs with idempotency keys) on connect errors, timeouts, 429 and 5xx. Never on 4xx (except 429), never on business failures, never blind-retry a POST that may have committed. 4. **Cap retries hard and jitter the backoff.** 2-3 attempts total, exponential backoff with full jitter …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/timeouts-and-retries@sha256:f293ecf1a4b6cdeaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.1dc980e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
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