Flight Log / microsoft/genaiscript #1636
Implement retry-after header handling for improved throttling in fetch requests — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in microsoft/genaiscript on Jun 23, 2025; merged clean in 38 min, merged by @pelikhan: +8,545 −16,214, 313 files, 3 reviews.
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GitHub Copilot was assigned a feature task in microsoft/genaiscript to make fetch requests respect the retry-after header when a service throttles them. The change spans 313 files, with 8545 additions and 16214 deletions, across seven commits. It drew three reviews and no change requests, and merged clean in 0.64 hours.
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Currently, genaiscript handles throttling situations but does not respect the `retry-after` header returned by services. This leads to unnecessary load on throttled services and suboptimal user experience with exponential backoff delays that may be longer than needed. ## Changes Made This PR imple…
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- Jun 23, 2025mergedpelikhan
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Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, microsoft/genaiscript#1636, record updated Nov 3, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/microsoft/genaiscript/1636/
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