- Retry used to be the only option on a stuck job, which is a problem when half your failures are from an incident weeks ago or a repo you disconnected. Retrying those just pays the model to write PR copy nobody will ever open. Now there's a Clear button next to Retry, same per-cause and bulk options, so you can get old noise off your plate without generating anything.
- Cleared jobs don't disappear, they move to their own view. The error, the attempt count, all of it stays intact, and one click restores a job to the failures list exactly as it was. Clearing doesn't retry it, restoring doesn't retry it either, you have to actually press retry after — so the worst case of clicking Clear by mistake is a list you bring back, not generation you paid for.
- The failure count on the dashboard finally means something again. Mine sat at 57 for reasons that had nothing to do with anything I needed to act on, and now it's zero.
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