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# RETRY Exhaustion Patterns

Demonstrates different behaviors when a step exhausts its retry count.

## 1. Exhaustion CONTINUE
- PASS: COMPLETE
- FAIL: RETRY 1 CONTINUE

Fails initially, retries once. If it fails again, it CONTINUES to the next step.
This allows "best effort" steps.

```bash
rd echo --result fail --result fail
```

## 2. Exhaustion STOP
- PASS: COMPLETE
- FAIL: RETRY 1 STOP

Fails initially, retries once. If it fails again, it STOPS the runbook.
This is for critical steps that must succeed eventually.

```bash
rd echo --result fail --result fail
```

## 3. Exhaustion GOTO
- PASS: COMPLETE
- FAIL: RETRY 2 GOTO 4

Fails up to 2 times. If it exhausts, it jumps to the Recovery step.

```bash
rd echo --result fail --result fail --result fail
```

## 4. Recovery
- PASS: COMPLETE

Recovery step reached from Step 3 exhaustion.

```bash
rd echo "recovered"
```

## 5. Exhaustion COMPLETE
- PASS: CONTINUE
- FAIL: RETRY 3 COMPLETE "Max retries reached, completing anyway"

Retries up to 3 times. If it still fails, it COMPLETES the runbook (success state).
Useful if the failure is acceptable as a final state.

```bash
rd echo "retry operation" --result fail --result fail --result pass
```

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