#23497: feat(retry): add retryHttpAsync utility with comprehensive coverage
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Error Resilience and Retry Logic
This PR introduces a robust retry mechanism for HTTP fetch operations across the OpenClaw codebase.
**Changes:**
1. **Infrastructure** — Adds utility:
- New dependency: for readable status constants
- Implements wrapper with automatic response validation
- Supports retry for transient errors: network failures, rate limits (429), server errors (5xx), Cloudflare 522/524
- Returns for type safety
- Extracted helpers: , , ,
2. **Application** — Wraps all unprotected fetch calls:
- 13+ locations updated with retry protection
- Uses directly for custom return types (e.g., in web-fetch.ts)
**Benefits:**
- Improved resilience against transient network issues
- Consistent backoff and retry behavior across services
- Better observability with labeled retry attempts
**Testing:** All changes are isolated to retry logic; existing functionality preserved.
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<h3>Greptile Summary</h3>
Added `retryHttpAsync` utility to wrap fetch calls with automatic retry logic for transient HTTP failures (429, 5xx, network errors). Applied across 13+ locations including embeddings, OAuth flows, and media fetches.
**Critical issue**: `retryHttpAsync` calls `validateResponseOk` after retries complete (retry-http.ts:79), which throws on non-OK responses. However, 14 call sites still check `if (!res.ok)` afterward - these checks are now unreachable dead code since `validateResponseOk` already threw.
**Impact**: The redundant checks won't execute, but this creates confusion and changes error handling behavior. Some locations had custom error messages for specific status codes (e.g., qwen-portal 400 handling) that are now bypassed.
- Removed import in tts-core.ts (lines 10-16) appears unrelated to this PR
- No tests added for the new retry-http module
<h3>Confidence Score: 2/5</h3>
- Unsafe to merge - contains logic errors where error handling code becomes unreachable
- 14 instances of unreachable error handling code due to `validateResponseOk` throwing before the checks. This changes behavior and loses custom error messages (e.g., Qwen OAuth 400 handling). The pattern is systematically broken across all usage sites.
- All files with `retryHttpAsync` calls need attention: signal-install.ts, nodes-camera.ts, client-fetch.ts, batch-upload.ts, batch-voyage.ts (3 locations), embeddings-gemini.ts, embeddings-remote-fetch.ts, github-copilot-auth.ts (2 locations), qwen-portal-oauth.ts, tts-core.ts (2 locations)
<sub>Last reviewed commit: 5f11943</sub>
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