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# Retry a workflow instance

> Cloudflare engine (failed, timed_out or cancelled): restart() runs the instance again from the first step under a new run_attempt, with the context reset to the entry record; records an earlier attempt emitted are not emitted again. Legacy engine (failed or timed_out): continues from the step that failed (a timed-out wait parks again). Audited as retry_workflow_instance.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json post /admin/api/projects/{project_id}/workflow-instances/{instance_id}/retry
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Hookie API
  version: 1.0.0
  summary: Capture, route and deliver webhooks.
  description: >-
    Hookie exposes three HTTP surfaces.


    **Ingest + streaming** is the public plane. A path-form endpoint URL
    authenticates by its own high-entropy slug — there is no key, token or
    cookie — and an `ik_live_…` ingest key authenticates the `/v1/*` routes.
    Whenever the URL names a dataset the payload is stored whole into it;
    project mapping rules are evaluated on exactly one shape, `POST
    /v1/ingest/{ingest_key}` with no dataset segment.


    **The customer portal API** is a separate, token-authed surface for your end
    customers, scoped to one portal and one customer.


    **The admin API** drives the console. It accepts either a browser session or
    an OAuth bearer token from a connected coding agent — the same routes, the
    same validation, the same audit trail. An agent's authority is its user's
    workspace role narrowed to the scopes granted in the console.


    This document is generated from the request handlers and adversarially
    verified against them.
  contact:
    name: Hookie
    url: https://hookie.ai
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://hookie.ai/legal/terms
servers:
  - url: https://app.hookie.ai
    description: Production
  - url: https://app.preview.hookie.ai
    description: Preview
security: []
tags:
  - name: Ingest
    description: Send events to Hookie.
  - name: Streaming
    description: Tail events in real time over SSE or WebSocket.
  - name: Portal
    description: Token-authed surface for your end customers.
  - name: Projects
    description: Projects and their settings.
  - name: Routing
    description: Rules, endpoints, datasets and records.
  - name: Delivery
    description: Destinations, deliveries and replay.
  - name: Workflows
    description: Multi-step workflows, triggers and AI agents.
  - name: Observability
    description: Search, correlation, stats and the audit log.
  - name: Workspace
    description: Members, connected agents, SSO and billing.
  - name: Data API
    description: >-
      Read-only access to the datasets and columns a project exposes, with
      per-project keys.
  - name: Broadcast Logs
    description: >-
      Forward a project's logs and traces over OTLP/HTTP (JSON) to Datadog,
      Grafana Cloud, an OpenTelemetry Collector, PostHog or Sentry.
paths:
  /admin/api/projects/{project_id}/workflow-instances/{instance_id}/retry:
    post:
      tags:
        - Workflows
      summary: Retry a workflow instance
      description: >-
        Cloudflare engine (failed, timed_out or cancelled): restart() runs the
        instance again from the first step under a new run_attempt, with the
        context reset to the entry record; records an earlier attempt emitted
        are not emitted again. Legacy engine (failed or timed_out): continues
        from the step that failed (a timed-out wait parks again). Audited as
        retry_workflow_instance.
      operationId: retryWorkflowInstance
      parameters:
        - name: project_id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: instance_id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: >-
            Retried. `state` is `pending` for a Cloudflare instance (it runs
            asynchronously); for a legacy instance, the state after it ran as
            far as it could.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                  - ok
                  - state
                properties:
                  ok:
                    type: boolean
                    enum:
                      - true
                  state:
                    type: string
        '401':
          description: Not signed in.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '403':
          description: >-
            `Insufficient role` (write capability required), or `Missing
            X-Requested-With header`.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '404':
          description: >-
            `Instance not found` (including an instance of another project or
            workspace), or `Project not found`.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '409':
          description: >-
            `A <state> instance cannot be retried (only failed, timed_out,
            cancelled)` — or, for a legacy instance, only failed and timed_out.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '500':
          description: '`Internal error`.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '502':
          description: Cloudflare refused the operation; nothing was changed. Try again.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '503':
          description: >-
            `Cloudflare Workflows is not configured` (a Cloudflare instance on a
            Worker without the WORKFLOW binding).
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      security:
        - session: []
        - bearerAuth: []
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      required:
        - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable reason.
        retry_after:
          type: integer
          description: Seconds to wait. Present on 429.
        upgrade_url:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Present only on a monthly-quota 429.
  securitySchemes:
    session:
      type: apiKey
      in: cookie
      name: hookie_session
      description: >-
        The console's sealed session cookie, set by WorkOS AuthKit. Mutating
        requests also require the `X-Requested-With` CSRF header.
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: >-
        An OAuth 2.1 access token from a connected agent, audienced at the
        `/mcp` resource URI. The agent acts as its user, with that user's role
        narrowed to the granted `hookie:*` scopes. No CSRF header is required —
        a bearer token is not ambient credentials.

````