Retry Policy

RetryPolicy configures how Waymark responds when an action raises an exception. It's passed to Workflow.run_action(...) per call. See the Retries & Timeouts guide for the conceptual walk-through; this page is the precise API surface.

Semantics to know:

• attempts counts total executions: attempts=5 is one initial try plus up to four retries, and attempts=1 means fail immediately.
• Omitting attempts compiles to a budget of 100 retries. Set it explicitly unless you want that.
• backoff_seconds is parsed and persisted, but the runtime currently dispatches retries immediately. Don't rely on it for pacing yet; put an await asyncio.sleep(...) inside the action instead.
• Field values must be literal constants in the workflow body. The compiler reads them from the AST at registration, so a policy built from a runtime variable won't be picked up. The exception: self.retry_policy instance attributes resolve fine.