A retry answers a narrow question: might the same operation succeed if I attempt it again? Recovery has a harder job. It must bring the original business operation to a known, valid outcome after something went wrong. Getting there may require another attempt, a status lookup, resuming from persisted state, or compensation. If the system cannot resolve the operation safely, it must hand it to a person. This difference matters as soon as an AI workflow does more than return text. If it retr...