the language
backoff_max_ms
ceiling on the computed backoff delay. One of 59 words the served contract declares, projected from workflow.schema.json, the same file your editor validates against.
- 1surfaceretry
- optionaleverywherea choice, never a miss
- integertypethe declared shape
- schemathe sourcenever prose
the contract
1 declarationDescriptions are the schema's own; the deeper invariants (value languages and regexes) ride the same projection. A miss is a nika check finding before anything runs.
- retry
integerceiling on the computed backoff delayinside retry:
in a real file
a crafted check-green filetts_generate.nika.yaml
line: infer: model: ollama/qwen3.5:4b prompt: "One warm sentence announcing a green run. Nothing else." temperature: 0.9 retry: max_attempts: 3 backoff_ms: 500 backoff_max_ms: 4000a verbatim slice, real line numbers from tts_generate.nika.yaml, nika check green; the drift gate re-proves this copy on every test run.
cross-references
no skeleton carries it and no registered code names it; the schema row is the whole story today.
defined by
the block it lives in
retry: inside retry:
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