With the full-jitter backoff (300ms base) six attempts can elapse in ~9s,
so the old RECONNECT_ESCALATE_AFTER=6 attempt threshold raised the
recoverable boot error during a brief post-boot blip — breaking the
'a remote that drops post-boot keeps looping with NO boot.error' contract.
Escalate after RECONNECT_ESCALATE_AFTER_MS (45s, matching the old
deterministic 1->15s ladder's calibration) elapsed since the first failed
reconnect of the episode. Reset on clean open, manual/wake reconnect, and
soft switch, preserving the reset-on-success path.
kshitij
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