#16195: feat(infra): add unified retry utility with exponential backoff
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Error Resilience and Retry Logic
## Summary
Add a reusable `withRetry<T>()` function that provides a unified retry strategy across the codebase.
**Key features:**
- Generic async retry wrapper with configurable max attempts
- Exponential backoff with jitter using existing `computeBackoff()` from backoff.ts
- Abort signal support for early cancellation
- Customizable `shouldRetry` predicate for fine-grained control
- `onRetry` callback for logging/metrics integration
- `RetryExhaustedError` for clear error handling
**Included retry predicates:**
- `retryPredicates.networkErrors` - Matches ECONNRESET, ETIMEDOUT, DNS failures, etc.
- `retryPredicates.serverErrors` - Matches HTTP 5xx and 429 (rate limit)
- `retryPredicates.any()` - Combines multiple predicates with OR logic
## Motivation
Currently the codebase has `computeBackoff` and `sleepWithAbort` as building blocks, but each caller must implement their own retry loop. This leads to:
- Inconsistent retry behavior across modules
- Duplicated error handling logic
- Easy to miss edge cases (abort handling, max attempts, etc.)
This utility provides a single, well-tested implementation that reuses existing backoff infrastructure.
## Example Usage
```typescript
import { withRetry, retryPredicates } from "./infra/retry.js";
const result = await withRetry(
() => fetch(url),
{
maxAttempts: 5,
shouldRetry: retryPredicates.any(
retryPredicates.networkErrors,
retryPredicates.serverErrors
),
onRetry: (err, attempt, delay) => {
logger.warn(`Attempt ${attempt} failed, retrying in ${delay}ms`);
},
}
);
```
## Test Plan
- [x] Unit tests for success on first attempt
- [x] Unit tests for retry and eventual success
- [x] Unit tests for RetryExhaustedError when all attempts fail
- [x] Unit tests for shouldRetry predicate behavior
- [x] Unit tests for onRetry callback invocation
- [x] Unit tests for abort signal handling
- [x] Unit tests for retry predicates (networkErrors, serverErrors, any)
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<h3>Greptile Summary</h3>
This PR replaces the existing `retryAsync` retry utility with a new `withRetry` function that provides exponential backoff with jitter, abort signal support, and helpful retry predicates. The implementation is clean and well-tested with comprehensive unit tests.
**Critical issue:**
- Complete removal of the old API (`retryAsync`, `RetryConfig`, `RetryInfo`, `resolveRetryConfig`) that is actively used in 15+ files across the codebase will cause build failures
**Key changes:**
- New `withRetry<T>()` function with `RetryOptions` configuration
- Added `RetryExhaustedError` for clear error handling
- Reuses existing `computeBackoff()` and `sleepWithAbort()` from `backoff.ts`
- Provides common retry predicates: `networkErrors`, `serverErrors`, and `any()`
- Includes comprehensive unit tests covering success, retry, exhaustion, abort, and predicate behavior
<h3>Confidence Score: 0/5</h3>
- This PR cannot be merged due to breaking API changes that will cause widespread build failures
- The complete removal of `retryAsync`, `RetryConfig`, `RetryInfo`, and `resolveRetryConfig` breaks 15+ files including `retry-policy.ts`, `batch-openai.ts`, `batch-voyage.ts`, `discord/api.ts`, and various Discord/Telegram send files. While the new code is well-implemented and tested, merging without migration will break the build.
- All files using the old retry API need migration before this PR can merge, particularly `src/infra/retry-policy.ts` which provides retry runners for Discord and Telegram
<sub>Last reviewed commit: f2baf88</sub>
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