Wait

Pause the run for a fixed duration, then continue with the payload untouched. The pause is durable — it's a scheduled job, not a sleeping process, so hours-long (or days-long) waits cost nothing and survive deploys.

Config

An amount and a unit — seconds, minutes, hours, or days.

Patterns

• Polite polling — inside a loop until body, space out status checks.
• Cool-down — send a reminder email, wait a day, check the store, escalate if still unresolved.
• Rate spacing — slow a chain that would otherwise hammer an API.

Gotchas

• Wait is a fixed timer. To pause for a decision, use approval; to pause for an event, restructure so a webhook or watch starts the follow-on work instead.