retry

retry is a skill for Claude Code from ao92265/claude-code-playbook. It costs 134 tokens per session (814 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A recovery procedure for continuing a coding task after a temporary Claude API failure, such as an outage, rate limit, or network drop.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to resume interrupted work after the API becomes available again. It checks what was already completed, including any partial file changes.
Why use it?
It avoids restarting the task or repeating decisions when the service failed before the work was finished.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the playbook plugin — 48 skills, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to resume interrupted work after the API becomes available again. It checks what was already completed, including any partial file changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/retry
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ao92265/claude-code-playbook --skill retry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ao92265/claude-code-playbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for retry

README.md
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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 814 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00134 $0.00814
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00081

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8186fc3f4421, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retry scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/retry/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retry After an API Error / Outage

A transient Anthropic API failure (overload, 5xx, rate limit, network blip, or a full outage) aborts the turn mid-task. This skill cleanly resumes the work that got cut off — it does NOT start fresh and does NOT re-litigate decisions already made before the error.

First: is this actually a retry?

Only proceed if the last failure was infrastructure, not the work itself:

  • ✅ Retry: Overloaded, 429/529, 500/503, rate_limit, fetch failed, socket hang up, "Claude is down", the turn just stopped with no result.
  • ❌ Not a retry — that's a fix: a test failed, a build broke, wrong output, a logic bug. Don't blindly redo it; diagnose. Say so and switch to fixing.

If it's ambiguous, ask the user which it was before acting.

Procedure

  1. Reconstruct where it died. Read the last few turns + any handoff/state (.omc/state/, .omc/handoffs/, todos, open files) to find the exact action that was in flight when the error hit. Don't assume — verify against the actual repo/file state, since a partial write may have landed.

  2. Check for partial work. git status --short and inspect the target file(s). The failed action may have half-completed (a file written but not verified, a commit started). Reconcile before redoing, so you don't double-apply.

  3. Re-run only the cut-off action, not the whole task. Pick up from the last verified-complete step. If several steps remain, restate the short remaining list first so the user can confirm scope.

  4. Verify end-to-end before claiming done (build/test as the project requires) — the interruption means nothing downstream was checked.

Surviving a LIVE outage (the wrapper)

This skill can't help while the API is actually down — the model isn't running to invoke it. For that, use the shell wrapper, which relaunches the CLI with exponential backoff and resumes via --continue:

~/.claude/scripts/claude-retry.sh [any normal claude args]
# e.g.  ~/.claude/scripts/claude-retry.sh -p "finish the migration"
#       ~/.claude/scripts/claude-retry.sh           # interactive TUI

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 64 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 8186fc3f4421

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retry is a skill published in the GitHub repository ao92265/claude-code-playbook (10 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 814 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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