diff --git a/.genignore b/.genignore
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-pylintrc
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+pylintrc
+# Owns retry response classification (408/429/5XX + transient inner error.code on 400s).
+# Speakeasy has no overlay/hook surface for the 400-inner-code case, so this file is
+# hand-maintained; genignore stops `speakeasy generate` from overwriting it. -- Claude
+src/openrouter/utils/retries.py
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