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February 18, 2026

Taskade developer changelog — February 18, 2026: Automation: Retry-After Header Support for 429 Responses, Automation: Flow-Enable Idempotency.

Developer highlights. This section tracks API, MCP, SDK, automation, and Taskade Genesis platform changes for developers. For the full product changelog see taskade.com/changelog; for release newsletters see taskade.com/blog/updates.

What's New:

Automation: Retry-After Header Support for 429 Responses

The automation workflow engine now reads the Retry-After header from upstream HTTP 429 responses and schedules the next retry at the time the external service requests, rather than using a fixed back-off interval. Both numeric-seconds (Retry-After: 60) and HTTP-date (Retry-After: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:00:00 GMT) formats are parsed.

This improves reliability for automations that call rate-limited external APIs (Shopify, Slack, etc.) without requiring any configuration change on your end.


Automation: Flow-Enable Idempotency

Enabling an automation flow (flowEnable) is now idempotent — calling it when the flow is already active no longer throws an error. This removes a class of race conditions for integrations that programmatically toggle flows (e.g., via webhook-driven enable/disable cycles).


Automation: Null-Byte Sanitization for Run Records

Automation run payloads are now sanitized before being persisted to the automation run store. Null bytes (\x00) embedded in webhook or external-API payloads previously caused silent write failures; they are now stripped at ingestion, preventing lost run records.

(items 2–3 shipped February 17)

See Automation Actions for the full action library.

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