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A HALF_OPEN probe asks one question — has the dependency recovered? — and every failure was taken as its answer, including failures that never left the process: no free connection in the local pool, no bulkhead permit.

Whenever the local cause outlives the outage that opened the breaker, that question becomes unanswerable. Each probe round fails on the local cause, the breaker returns to OPEN, and the cycle repeats for the life of the process — however healthy the dependency has become in the meantime. Nothing short of a restart clears it, and from the outside the wedged breaker looks identical to a healthy one riding out a blip.

The fix. Such a call is now recorded through a new unreachable flag on StateMachine.record, which hands the probe's slot back without a verdict instead of counting a failure the probe never observed. Recording it as a success would be the mirror-image lie, so the outcome is dropped. The round still has to end: once as many probes have come back inconclusive as the round permits, the breaker re-opens — nothing was learned, so waiting is the only honest move left.

CLOSED is deliberately untouched. There an exhausted pool is usually the dependency holding connections open, and shedding load is exactly what should happen — the reasoning already recorded next to _EXCLUDED_EXCEPTIONS still holds. The distinction is not about the exception, it is about the question being asked.

The httpx and httpx2 transports pass PoolTimeout that way out of the box. Other guards take the set through unreachable_exceptions on CircuitBreaker, Registry and Engine. A caller that owns its own Registry has to pass it there, the same caveat that already applies to classifier.

Backoff. wait_duration_in_open was a constant, so a breaker that could not recover retried at full rate indefinitely, each round hammering a dependency already in trouble. Config.wait_duration_backoff_multiplier lengthens the wait after each consecutive failed round and Config.wait_duration_in_open_max caps it; a passing round resets both. The growing interval doubles as a signal: a breaker waiting out a blip looks nothing like one that has failed ten rounds in a row.

The default multiplier of 1.0 keeps the historical constant wait, so nothing changes until it is raised. griffe check reports no public-API breakage — every addition is an optional parameter or a new Config field with a default. Suggested as a minor release.

Prior art in this codebase

release_probe() already draws exactly this distinction for cancellation:

the outcome must not count — an interruption says nothing about the dependency — but the slot has to come back, or every leaked probe would shrink the HALF_OPEN budget until the breaker wedged there for good.

"Wedged there for good" is the failure mode. Local resource exhaustion belongs in the same category; it simply had no way to say so.

Checklist

  • Tests added or updated (suite stays at 100% coverage)
  • uv run ruff format --check and uv run ruff check pass
  • uv run mypy, uv run pyright and uv run pyrefly check pass
  • Docs updated (docs/) for user-facing changes
  • CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased] updated
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uv run mutmut run: 574/600 killed, matching the documented 95.8% baseline. Three mutants initially survived in the new _record_inconclusive_probe, all of them probe-accounting arithmetic; two tests were added to pin the slot bookkeeping exactly, and each mutation now fails one of them.

Note for local runs: mutmut copies only interlock/, tests/, pyproject.toml and uv.lock into mutants/, so tests/test_readme.py cannot find README.md, docs/, LICENSE or examples/ and aborts collection before any mutant runs. Copying those into mutants/ works around it. Unrelated to this change, but it makes the documented command fail out of the box.

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Added

  • Add Config.wait_duration_backoff_multiplier and Config.wait_duration_in_open_max for capped open-state backoff.
  • Add unreachable_exceptions to CircuitBreaker, Registry, and Engine.
  • Treat httpx.PoolTimeout and httpx2.PoolTimeout as unreachable by default in HTTPX transports.

Fixed

  • Prevent HALF_OPEN probes that fail locally from reopening the breaker without contacting the dependency.
  • Return inconclusive probe slots after unreachable failures.
  • Reopen the breaker after all permitted probes are inconclusive and no probe remains in flight.
  • Schedule automatic transitions using StateMachine.retry_after() so backoff intervals are respected.
  • Validate configured unreachable_exceptions entries.

Changed

  • Extend StateMachine.record() with the unreachable parameter.
  • Preserve existing CLOSED behavior for unreachable exceptions.
  • Reset open-state backoff after a successful probe round or reset().
  • Keep coordinated probes on plain unreachable handling while completing their leases.

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State policy and wait backoff
interlock/config.py, interlock/_state_machine.py, tests/test_config.py, tests/test_state_machine.py, tests/test_auto_transition.py, docs/guides/states.md, docs/llms-full.txt, CHANGELOG.md
Config validates wait backoff settings. StateMachine tracks failed probe rounds, caps wait duration, and returns slots for inconclusive probes. Timer scheduling uses the calculated retry interval. Tests cover transitions, resets, caps, and slot accounting.
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interlock/_engine.py, interlock/breaker.py, interlock/registry.py, interlock/integrations/_registry.py, tests/test_engine.py, docs/guides/states.md, docs/llms-full.txt
Configured exceptions reach Engine and StateMachine as unreachable=True. CircuitBreaker and Registry expose the configuration. Tests cover synchronous, asynchronous, coordinated, and validation behavior.
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interlock/integrations/httpx.py, interlock/integrations/httpx2.py, tests/test_httpx.py, tests/test_httpx2.py
HTTPX and HTTPX2 transports configure PoolTimeout as unreachable for synchronous and asynchronous registries. Tests verify that a half-open PoolTimeout does not reopen the breaker.

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This PR changes HALF_OPEN probe settlement and adds configurable retry backoff, but coordinated breakers still use ordinary failure handling and fixed retry timing, while oversized multipliers can leave a breaker OPEN indefinitely and degraded local admission can still reopen it incorrectly. These availability and recovery issues make the current head unsafe to merge until fixed or explicitly accepted by the owners.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant HTTPXTransport
  participant Engine
  participant StateMachine
  HTTPXTransport->>Engine: PoolTimeout exception
  Engine->>StateMachine: record(unreachable=True)
  StateMachine-->>Engine: Return probe slot without verdict
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603-603: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Schedule auto-transition from the backoff-adjusted wait.

After a failed probe round, this timer fires after the base wait. StateMachine.attempt_auto_transition() rejects that early attempt, and no timer is scheduled for the remaining backoff interval. With auto_transition=True, the breaker then stays OPEN until a caller arrives.

Use the current retry_after() value when arming the timer.

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Inline comments:
In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Around line 11-16: Update the changelog entry describing HALF_OPEN probe
behavior to remove the claim that an unreachable dependency can no longer keep
the breaker open indefinitely. State instead that an individual unreachable or
inconclusive probe does not determine the probe-round verdict, while preserving
that rounds with only inconclusive probes return to OPEN and may repeat the OPEN
→ HALF_OPEN → OPEN cycle.

In `@docs/guides/states.md`:
- Around line 61-63: Update the configuration reference to document
wait_duration_backoff_multiplier and wait_duration_in_open_max with their
defaults and validation rules, then regenerate docs/llms-full.txt from the
updated documentation.
- Around line 53-54: Define the NoLocalSlot exception in the example before
constructing CircuitBreaker and Registry, so both unreachable_exceptions
references resolve when the sample is copied and executed.

In `@interlock/_engine.py`:
- Line 492: Update the shared-storage HALF_OPEN probe flow around
admission.probe and notify_probe_outcome so an unreachable leased probe is
explicitly recorded as inconclusive rather than skipped. Add the corresponding
Storage operation to return/account for the lease, and transition the shared
breaker back to OPEN once the configured inconclusive-probe budget is exhausted.
- Line 100: Validate unreachable_exceptions in __init__ before assigning it to
_unreachable_exceptions, rejecting any entry that is not an Exception subclass
while accepting valid exception classes. This prevents _settle() from failing
during outcome handling and preserves probe-slot cleanup.

In `@interlock/_state_machine.py`:
- Around line 273-274: Update the half-open transition logic in the
state-machine method containing the _probes_inconclusive check so _open() is not
called while any valid probe remains in flight. Defer reopening until all
permitted probe calls have completed, preserving successful results from
original in-flight probes and avoiding a generation change that discards them.

In `@interlock/breaker.py`:
- Line 79: Document the public constructor argument unreachable_exceptions in
the Args sections of interlock/breaker.py at lines 79-79 and
interlock/registry.py at lines 58-58, stating that it affects HALF_OPEN probe
accounting only and does not exclude failures while CLOSED.

In `@interlock/config.py`:
- Around line 85-96: Update the timing validation in the configuration
initializer around wait_duration_backoff_multiplier and
wait_duration_in_open_max to explicitly reject NaN values, using an appropriate
finite/NaN check before relational comparisons. Ensure invalid NaN timing values
raise ValueError during configuration while preserving existing validation for
ordinary numeric values.

In `@interlock/integrations/httpx2.py`:
- Line 93: Add sync and async regression tests in tests/test_httpx2.py for
CircuitBreakerTransport and AsyncCircuitBreakerTransport, respectively,
verifying that httpx2.PoolTimeout is classified as an unreachable HALF_OPEN
probe and follows the expected core error translation path. Follow the transport
test conventions and requirements documented in AGENTS.md.

In `@tests/test_state_machine.py`:
- Around line 651-656: Update _fail_probe_round in tests/test_state_machine.py
at lines 651-656 and the inconclusive probe test in tests/test_state_machine.py
at lines 780-791 so each permitted probe is admitted with and asserts
machine.acquire() immediately before recording its outcome; preserve the
respective failure and inconclusive outcomes.

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- Line 603: Update the timer setup in the state-machine transition flow to use
the current retry_after() duration instead of self._config.wait_duration_in_open
when constructing threading.Timer, while preserving the existing
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def _fail_probe_round(machine: StateMachine, clock: FakeClock, *, wait: float) -> None:
"""Advance past the open wait, then fail every probe of the resulting round."""
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machine.acquire()
for _ in range(machine._config.permitted_calls_in_half_open):
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Admit every probe before recording its outcome.

Both tests record permitted_calls_in_half_open outcomes after only one
acquire(). This can drive probe counters below zero and does not test a valid
admission sequence.

  • tests/test_state_machine.py#L651-L656: call and assert machine.acquire() before each failure record.
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Thanks — most of these were real. Addressed in 4258374.

Fixed

  • Auto-transition scheduled from the base wait. Correct, and the worst of the batch: with a backoff in play the timer fired early, attempt_auto_transition() refused it, and nothing was scheduled for the remainder — auto_transition=True silently stopped working. _schedule_auto_transition now takes its delay from retry_after(), with a test asserting the armed interval grows 100s → 300s across a failed round.
  • Leased probes in shared storage. Also correct. Rather than grow Storage a new operation in this PR, a coordinated probe now keeps the plain behaviour: unreachable is only computed when no coordinator is present. The lease is always completed, and the limitation is stated in the constructor docstrings. Extending the shared protocol is worth its own change.
  • Reopening while a valid probe is in flight. Guarded — the round only re-opens once the last probe has come back, so an in-flight verdict is never discarded by the generation bump.
  • unreachable_exceptions unvalidated. Now checked at construction in both Engine and Registry, mirroring _exception_types() in the httpx integration and for the same reason: left to _settle, the isinstance would raise on the first real failure, masking the protected exception and stranding the probe slot.
  • Test recorded outcomes without admitting them. Right, and it was hiding something: with the in-flight guard added, test__half_open__every_probe_inconclusive__reopens failed until each record got its acquire. Both probe tests now follow the real admit-then-record cycle.
  • Missing docstrings, undefined NoLocalSlot in the example, configuration.md reference, overclaiming CHANGELOG entry — all done; the entry now says an individual unreachable probe no longer decides the round, rather than implying the breaker can never stay open.
  • HTTPX2 regression test — added, mirroring the httpx one.

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  • NaN timing values. Real, but not this PR's to fix: slow_call_duration_threshold, wait_duration_in_open and both rate thresholds have always had the same hole, so rejecting NaN on the two new fields alone would be inconsistent. Worth a separate change that covers every timing field at once.

Also in this push: test_config_validation had regressed 12% on CodSpeed because __post_init__ was split into four helpers to satisfy C901. Validation is a flat list of guards rather than branching logic, so it is one method again with a justified noqa, and the benchmark is back under the threshold.

Coverage stays at 100% (842 tests); ruff, mypy, pyright, pyrefly and griffe are clean.

A HALF_OPEN probe asks one question — has the dependency recovered? — and
every failure was taken as its answer, including failures that never left the
process: no free connection in the local pool, no bulkhead permit. Whenever
the local cause outlives the outage that opened the breaker, the question
becomes unanswerable — each probe round fails on the local cause, the breaker
returns to OPEN, and the cycle repeats for the life of the process, however
healthy the dependency has become. Only a restart clears it.

Such a call is now recorded through the new `unreachable` flag on
StateMachine.record, which hands the probe's slot back without a verdict
instead of counting a failure the probe never observed. Recording it as a
success would be the mirror-image lie, so the outcome is dropped. The round
still has to end: once as many probes have come back inconclusive as the round
permits, the breaker re-opens, because nothing was learned and waiting is the
only honest move left.

CLOSED is deliberately untouched — there an exhausted pool is usually the
dependency holding connections open, and shedding load is exactly what should
happen. The httpx and httpx2 transports pass PoolTimeout that way out of the
box; other guards take the set through `unreachable_exceptions` on
CircuitBreaker, Registry and Engine.

Alongside it, the open wait can now grow. wait_duration_in_open was a
constant, so a breaker that could not recover retried at full rate
indefinitely, each round hammering a dependency already in trouble.
Config.wait_duration_backoff_multiplier lengthens the wait after each
consecutive failed round and Config.wait_duration_in_open_max caps it; a
passing round resets both. The default multiplier of 1.0 keeps the historical
constant wait, so nothing changes until it is raised.
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The round counter grew without limit while the wait it feeds was capped, so a
ceiling did not protect anything: with `wait_duration_in_open_max` set, the wait
stops growing but the exponent does not, and a dependency broken for a few days
walks it into float's range. `wait_duration_in_open * multiplier ** rounds` then
returns infinity — later raising OverflowError outright — `_wait_elapsed()` is
never true again, and the breaker stays OPEN for the life of the process. That
is the exact failure this branch set out to remove, reintroduced through the
mechanism meant to soften it.

Growth now stops at 64 rounds. Any sane multiplier has passed every ceiling long
before, so nothing is lost, and the exponent stays far from the range where the
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In `@docs/guides/states.md`:
- Around line 87-89: Update the growth-stop explanation in the states guide to
state that 64 failed rounds bound exponent growth, while
wait_duration_in_open_max applies only when the calculated wait reaches that
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usages in registry.py to match; keep the behavior unchanged and ensure the
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- Around line 501-505: The unreachable classification in _admit() must treat
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Update the condition around _unreachable_exceptions to exclude only probe
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local HALF_OPEN pool-timeout probe returning its local slot instead of reopening
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- Line 70: Update the construction path for validate_unreachable_exceptions to
reject non-tuple containers and normalize or validate the value before storing
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validation of individual exception entries and ensure HALF_OPEN local probe
settlement can record or release normally.

In `@interlock/breaker.py`:
- Line 86: Update the public constructor docstrings for unreachable_exceptions
in interlock/breaker.py (line 86) and interlock/registry.py (line 66) to
document TypeError for invalid exception-class entries, while retaining the
existing ValueError documentation.

In `@interlock/config.py`:
- Line 45: The coordinated breaker path must honor
wait_duration_backoff_multiplier when shared storage is configured. Update the
coordinated state and storage handling used by begin_half_open_if_elapsed to
track failed probe rounds and calculate the backoff, or explicitly reject this
configuration during Config validation; do not leave the setting silently
ignored.
- Line 73: Update Config construction validation around
wait_duration_backoff_multiplier to reject values whose maximum supported
failed-round duration is not finite, including oversized finite multipliers such
as 1e308, before exponentiation can overflow or produce infinity. Preserve
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[style] ~1615-~1615: Consider an alternative for the overused word “exactly”.
Context: ... connections open, and shedding load is exactly what should happen. A round still has ...

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[style] ~1639-~1639: ‘exactly the same’ might be wordy. Consider a shorter alternative.
Context: ... breaker that cannot recover retries at exactly the same rate forever, hammering a dependency th...

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Context: ... connections open, and shedding load is exactly what should happen. A round still has ...

(EXACTLY_PRECISELY)


[style] ~65-~65: ‘exactly the same’ might be wordy. Consider a shorter alternative.
Context: ... breaker that cannot recover retries at exactly the same rate forever, hammering a dependency th...

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Growth stops after 64 consecutive failed rounds. Any sane multiplier has long
since passed `wait_duration_in_open_max` by then, and an unbounded exponent
would eventually overflow to an infinite wait that never elapses — leaving the

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the cap explanation.

wait_duration_backoff_multiplier=1.0 is the documented default, so the wait never grows and cannot reach wait_duration_in_open_max. Multipliers close to 1.0 can also remain below the cap after 64 rounds. State that 64 rounds bound exponent growth and that the cap applies only when the calculated wait reaches it.

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In `@docs/guides/states.md` around lines 87 - 89, Update the growth-stop
explanation in the states guide to state that 64 failed rounds bound exponent
growth, while wait_duration_in_open_max applies only when the calculated wait
reaches that cap; remove the claim that the cap is necessarily reached by then,
including for the default multiplier of 1.0.

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Comment thread interlock/_engine.py
_MANUAL_STATES = frozenset({State.FORCED_OPEN, State.DISABLED, State.METRICS_ONLY})


def validate_unreachable_exceptions(

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Make the shared validator private.

Rename validate_unreachable_exceptions to _validate_unreachable_exceptions and update
the import in interlock/registry.py. It is an internal helper.

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In `@interlock/_engine.py` at line 57, Rename the shared helper
validate_unreachable_exceptions to _validate_unreachable_exceptions in the
engine module, and update its import and usages in registry.py to match; keep
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Comment thread interlock/config.py
permitted_calls_in_half_open: int = 10
max_concurrent_probes: int = 1
wait_duration_in_open: float = 60.0
wait_duration_backoff_multiplier: float = 1.0

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Apply open-wait backoff in coordinated mode.

When Config is used with shared storage, this setting has no effect. interlock/_coordination.py:314-317 always passes self._config.wait_duration_in_open to begin_half_open_if_elapsed. It does not provide failed-round state or the multiplier. A coordinated breaker therefore retries every failed probe round after the base wait.

Track failed rounds in coordinated state and storage, or reject this option when storage is configured.

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In `@interlock/config.py` at line 45, The coordinated breaker path must honor
wait_duration_backoff_multiplier when shared storage is configured. Update the
coordinated state and storage handling used by begin_half_open_if_elapsed to
track failed probe rounds and calculate the backoff, or explicitly reject this
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- A *leased* probe is what must keep its plain verdict, not any probe taken while
  a coordinator exists. When storage degrades, admission falls back to the local
  machine with no lease to strand, and the old check still suppressed the
  inconclusive path there. `admission.probe` marks exactly the leased ones.
- Reject a multiplier whose backoff stops being a finite number: an infinite wait
  never elapses, so the breaker could never leave OPEN. Checked at construction,
  where the offending value is in front of the caller.
- Reject a non-tuple container for `unreachable_exceptions`: `isinstance` raises
  its own TypeError on a list, which would surface on the first real failure
  instead of here.
- Document the TypeError contract on both public constructors.
- Say plainly that the backoff is local: under shared storage the coordinated
  lane reopens on the base wait and keeps no failed-round count.
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Second round addressed in f077b7e, on top of 226facb.

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  • Classify local fallback probes from admission.probe. Correct, and it is the better condition outright — the check is now not admission.probe rather than coordinator is None. A leased probe is what must keep its plain verdict, because only an outcome returns the remote grant; a probe admitted by the local machine has nothing to strand. That covers the degraded-storage fallback you point at, and drops a variable in the process.
  • Reject overflowing multipliers. Right, and the bounded exponent did not save it: 1e308 ** 64 overflows regardless of MAX_BACKOFF_ROUNDS. Config now computes the peak wait at construction and refuses anything that is not finite, with the offending value in the message.
  • Reject non-tuple containers. Right — isinstance raises its own TypeError on a list, which would have surfaced on the first real failure instead of at construction.
  • Document the TypeError contract on both public constructors — done.
  • Backoff has no effect in coordinated mode. Confirmed: _coordination.py passes wait_duration_in_open straight through and keeps no failed-round state, so a coordinated breaker retries on the base wait however many rounds have failed. Threading the count through shared state is a real change to the storage protocol and does not belong in this PR. For now it is stated plainly where the option is declared and in docs/guides/states.md. Whether it should instead be rejected outright when a storage is configured is the maintainer's call — say the word and I will add the guard.

Not doing

  • Make the shared validator private. This one is wrong for this codebase, and pyright says so: renaming it to _validate_unreachable_exceptions and importing it into registry.py fails reportPrivateUsage. The convention here is a private module with public names insidevalidate_initial_state in _initial_state.py, build_window in _windows.py, is_async_callable in _detect.py, notify in _notify.py, StateMachine in _state_machine.py. validate_unreachable_exceptions in _engine.py is the same shape and stays as it is.

From an independent pass, also in this branch (226facb)

A separate review found a real bug that this branch had introduced: _wait_duration() raised the multiplier to an unbounded power. wait_duration_in_open_max did not protect it, because the ceiling is applied after the exponentiation — with a cap set, the wait stops growing but the round counter does not. At 1023 rounds the product is inf, at 1024 it raises OverflowError, _wait_elapsed() is never true again, and the breaker stays OPEN for the life of the process. With a 300s cap that is about three and a half days of a broken dependency, so it is reachable. Growth now stops at 64 rounds, and a regression test walks 1100 rounds and asserts the wait is still pinned at the ceiling.

846 tests, coverage at 100%; ruff, mypy, pyright, pyrefly and griffe clean. mutmut is at the documented baseline, with the two survivors in this branch's new code killed by tests that pin the probe-slot arithmetic.

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The peak-wait check exponentiates, and `Config()` is on a measured path. At the
default multiplier of 1.0 there is no backoff to validate — the peak is the base
wait — so both multiplier guards now sit behind a single comparison and the
arithmetic only runs when a caller asked for a backoff.
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## Summary

Prepare the `2.8.0` minor release.

* Bump the package version from `2.7.0` to `2.8.0`.
* Move the current `[Unreleased]` changelog entries into `[2.8.0] -
2026-09-01`, in the Added-before-Fixed order every other section uses.
* Update the changelog comparison links, and the release version and
month on the comparison page.
* Regenerate `docs/llms-full.txt`.

Minor, not patch: the release adds public API. #194 gives `Config` an
open wait that can grow — `wait_duration_backoff_multiplier` and
`wait_duration_in_open_max` — and gives `CircuitBreaker`, `Registry` and
`Engine` an `unreachable_exceptions` set, so a `HALF_OPEN` probe that
never reached the dependency hands its slot back instead of deciding the
round against it. #195 refuses, at construction, a backoff asked for
alongside a shared `Storage`, which the coordinated lane has no way to
honour.

Nothing an existing caller does stops working. The defaults keep the
historical behaviour: `wait_duration_backoff_multiplier` is `1.0`, so
the wait stays constant until it is raised, and only the two httpx
transports pass a non-empty `unreachable_exceptions` out of the box
(`PoolTimeout`). The new `ValueError` cannot reach a caller who upgrades
either — the multiplier it guards ships in this same release, so no
configuration written against `2.7.0` can trip it.

The two changes are released together on purpose. Shipping the backoff
without the guard would leave an option that reads as enabled and does
nothing under a shared `Storage`, and adding the guard afterwards would
then be the breaking change.

## Checklist

* [x] Tests added or updated (suite stays at 100% coverage)
* [x] `uv run ruff format --check` and `uv run ruff check` pass
* [x] `uv run mypy`, `uv run pyright` and `uv run pyrefly check` pass
* [x] Docs updated (`docs/`) for user-facing changes
* [x] `CHANGELOG.md` `[Unreleased]` updated
* [x] Commits follow Conventional Commits

Additional release checks: the package build passes
(`interlock_cb-2.8.0`), `twine check` PASSED on both artefacts, and
griffe reports the `VERSION` attribute (`2.7.0` → `2.8.0`) as the only
public difference — the backoff fields and `unreachable_exceptions` are
additions, so nothing is flagged as a breakage.

## Related issues

#194, #195
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