Self-healing

Things fail: a third-party service times out, a rate limit hits, a network blips. A self-healing automation expects that. It retries a step that failed for a temporary reason, backs off when it should, pauses safely when it genuinely cannot proceed, and flags the rare case that needs a human.

The point is that a transient hiccup does not become an outage or a dropped task. Most stumbles recover on their own, and a person is only pulled in for the failures that actually need judgment.