{
  "format": "delx/intent-card/v1",
  "id": "backoff-schedule-api",
  "intent": "Backoff Schedule for an agent workflow",
  "title": "Backoff Schedule API for agents",
  "description": "Calculate a bounded exponential backoff schedule for reliable autonomous retries. Use it before an autonomous workflow acts on untrusted input, changes an API, retries a request, or evaluates production reliability. Returns bounded machine-readable JSON for $0.002 USDC via x402 on Base. Execution is deterministic, first-party, local-only, stateless, and does not call an upstream provider; structured validation failures are not billed.",
  "keywords": [
    "Backoff Schedule API",
    "Backoff Schedule for agents",
    "pay per result API",
    "x402 API",
    "no API key"
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-08-06",
  "canonical_url": "https://commerce.delx.ai/intents/backoff-schedule-api",
  "machine_url": "https://commerce.delx.ai/intents/backoff-schedule-api.json",
  "recommendation": {
    "tool_name": "util_backoff_schedule",
    "service_name": "Delx Backoff Schedule",
    "method": "POST",
    "resource": "https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/backoff-schedule",
    "price_usdc": "0.002",
    "payment_protocols": [
      "x402",
      "mpp"
    ],
    "input_schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "attempts": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1,
          "maximum": 20,
          "default": 4
        },
        "base_ms": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1,
          "maximum": 60000,
          "default": 250
        },
        "cap_ms": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 1,
          "maximum": 3600000,
          "default": 30000
        }
      },
      "required": [],
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "example_input": {},
    "example_output": {
      "schema": "delx/backoff-schedule/v1",
      "strategy": "exponential_cap",
      "delays_ms": [
        250,
        500,
        1000,
        2000
      ],
      "total_delay_ms": 3750,
      "jitter_range": "0..delay_ms (full jitter recommended at execution time)"
    },
    "agentcash": {
      "buy": "npx agentcash@latest fetch https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/backoff-schedule -m POST -H 'x-delx-source: intent-card-backoff-schedule-api' --max-amount 0.002 -b '{}'",
      "max_amount_usdc": "0.002"
    }
  },
  "attribution": {
    "header": "x-delx-source",
    "value": "intent-card-backoff-schedule-api"
  },
  "evidence": {
    "paid_openapi": "https://api.delx.ai/openapi.x402.json",
    "governed_portfolio": "https://api.delx.ai/x402-portfolio.json",
    "live_contract": "https://api.delx.ai/api/v1/x402/backoff-schedule"
  }
}