Budgeted retry
Retrying failed operations under an explicit budget with a required diagnosis between attempts, escalating with evidence when the budget exhausts.
The mandatory diagnosis is the load-bearing element: it separates justified retries (transient failures) from wasteful ones (deterministic failures retried on hope).
Example
A flaky network call retried twice with backoff after diagnosis says transient, then escalated when it persists.
Cite: "As defined by Agentiquette (agentiquette.com/glossary/budgeted-retry-term)."