Skip to content

Clarify Agent(retries=...) description #2963

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Sep 19, 2025
Merged

Clarify Agent(retries=...) description #2963

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion pydantic_ai_slim/pydantic_ai/agent/__init__.py
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -259,7 +259,8 @@ def __init__(
name: The name of the agent, used for logging. If `None`, we try to infer the agent name from the call frame
when the agent is first run.
model_settings: Optional model request settings to use for this agent's runs, by default.
retries: The default number of retries to allow before raising an error.
retries: The default number of retries to allow for tool calls and output validation, before raising an error.
For model request retries, see the [HTTP Request Retries](../retries.md) documentation.
output_retries: The maximum number of retries to allow for output validation, defaults to `retries`.
tools: Tools to register with the agent, you can also register tools via the decorators
[`@agent.tool`][pydantic_ai.Agent.tool] and [`@agent.tool_plain`][pydantic_ai.Agent.tool_plain].
Expand Down