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Worker: retry failed `fetch:plan` events

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Description

Seen a lost run lately where the fetch:plan event timed out, resulting in the run being lost.

This is a rare event, but the worker must handle the case better. Should the plan fail to fetch, it should be quite happy to back off and try again.

On these getter-style events (dataclip, plan, maybe credential) we don't have to worry about idempotence. So in the event of a timeout these events should just keep retrying until they a) error or b) succeed.

I suppose the flipside of this is: if the event consistently times out, the worker should give up and return some kind of error, rather than just letting the run be Lost

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Start by locating the worker handling fetch:plan and the existing retry or backoff behavior for getter-style events such as dataclip and credential. Determine how repeated timeouts are reported, then verify that a timed-out plan fetch retries and that a consistently failing fetch eventually returns an error instead of leaving the run Lost.

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Tech stack
typescript
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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