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---
summary: "Retry policy for outbound provider calls"
read_when:
- Updating provider retry behavior or defaults
- Debugging provider send errors or rate limits
title: "Retry policy"
---
## Goals
- Retry per HTTP request, not per multi-step flow.
- Preserve ordering by retrying only the current step.
- Avoid duplicating non-idempotent operations.
## Defaults
- Attempts: 3
- Max delay cap: 30000 ms
- Jitter: 0.1 (10 percent)
- Provider defaults:
- Telegram min delay: 400 ms
- Discord min delay: 500 ms
## Behavior
### Model providers
- OpenClaw lets provider SDKs handle normal short retries.
- For Stainless-based SDKs such as Anthropic and OpenAI, retryable responses
(`408`, `409`, `429`, and `5xx`) can include `retry-after-ms` or
`retry-after`. When that wait is longer than 60 seconds, OpenClaw injects
`x-should-retry: false` so the SDK surfaces the error immediately and model
failover can rotate to another auth profile or fallback model.
- Override the cap with `OPENCLAW_SDK_RETRY_MAX_WAIT_SECONDS=<seconds>`.
Set it to `0`, `false`, `off`, `none`, or `disabled` to let SDKs honor long
`Retry-After` sleeps internally.
### Discord
- Retries only on rate-limit errors (HTTP 429).
- Uses Discord `retry_after` when available, otherwise exponential backoff.
### Telegram
- Retries on transient errors (429, timeout, connect/reset/closed, temporarily unavailable).
- Uses `retry_after` when available, otherwise exponential backoff.
- Markdown parse errors are not retried; they fall back to plain text.
## Configuration
Set retry policy per provider in `~/.openclaw/openclaw.json`:
```json5
{
channels: {
telegram: {
retry: {
attempts: 3,
minDelayMs: 400,
maxDelayMs: 30000,
jitter: 0.1,
},
},
discord: {
retry: {
attempts: 3,
minDelayMs: 500,
maxDelayMs: 30000,
jitter: 0.1,
},
},
},
}
```
## Notes
- Retries apply per request (message send, media upload, reaction, poll, sticker).
- Composite flows do not retry completed steps.
## Related
- [Model failover](/concepts/model-failover)
- [Command queue](/concepts/queue)