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Error Handling and Retry Nodes in LangGraph (ANSWERED)

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**Retry patterns** Tenacity-style retries inside node or dedicated retry wrapper node incrementing state.retry_count. Exponential backoff for transient MCP errors.

TL;DR — Quick Answer

Wrap risky nodes with retry policies, route structured errors to fallback nodes via conditional edges, cap attempts in state, and emit observability events — mirror mcp-013 semantics at graph level.

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Design error handling in LangGraph: retries, fallbacks, and dead-letter paths when tools or LLM calls fail.

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Retry patterns Tenacity-style retries inside node or dedicated retry wrapper node incrementing state.retry_count. Exponential backoff for transient MCP errors.

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