vercel__workflow/.changeset/pre/inline-maxretries-race.md

@workflow/core

@workflow/core
patch

Fix a false "exceeded max retries" run failure: the retry-ceiling guard counted duplicate step_started events written by invocations racing on the same pending batch as real attempts. The owned-recovery ceiling now counts only the owning message's own starts, and the background-step ceiling counts only bare (queue-delivered) starts.