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discussionAI Agents (OpenClaw, Grok Bot, Hermes, Etc.) · Oct 19, 2026

FB AI Agents group: how many retries before an agent must hand back to a human?

A thread collects retry policies for failed agent steps: cheap and side-effect-free steps get retries with backoff; anything that touched something real gets one retry, then hands back. The thread's key insight: the cleanup cost of a duplicate action is always higher than the annoyance of one more human check-in.

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