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How to Define and Use Retry Logic in Archon Workflow Nodes

April 10, 2026 coleam00/Archon ↗

Archon provides declarative retry configuration for DAG nodes, allowing automatic re-execution with exponential backoff when transient errors occur, while fatal errors trigger immediate failure.

Archon is an open-source workflow orchestration platform that implements resilient execution patterns through schema-defined retry policies. By configuring retry logic directly in your workflow node definitions, you can specify exactly how the DAG executor should handle failures without implementing custom error recovery code.

Understanding the Retry Schema Configuration

The shape of retry configuration is strictly validated by a Zod schema defined in packages/workflows/src/schemas/retry.ts. This schema

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