diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 78fd6ac2..0fe23d6a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Changed
+
+- Bump `haiku.skills>=0.17.2`: skill runs use a retry budget of 3 for tool calls and output validation (was 1).
+
 ### Added
 
 - `analysis.max_executions` (default 15): caps `execute_code` calls per analysis question. Past the cap the tool returns a notice telling the skill to answer from what it has, instead of spiralling into `request_limit` and returning nothing. The analysis skill sets `request_limit` to 30 as a backstop.
diff --git a/haiku_rag_slim/pyproject.toml b/haiku_rag_slim/pyproject.toml
index 2c683ca1..1f68c795 100644
--- a/haiku_rag_slim/pyproject.toml
+++ b/haiku_rag_slim/pyproject.toml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ classifiers = [
 
 dependencies = [
     "docling-core>=2.75.0",
-    "haiku.skills>=0.17.1",
+    "haiku.skills>=0.17.2",
     "httpx>=0.28.1",
     "jinja2>=3.1.0",
     "jsonpatch>=1.33",
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 4e749118..07eab071 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -1746,7 +1746,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "docling-core", specifier = ">=2.75.0" },
     { name = "fastapi", marker = "extra == 'ingester'", specifier = ">=0.125" },
     { name = "haiku-rag-slim", extras = ["s3"], marker = "extra == 'ingester'", editable = "haiku_rag_slim" },
-    { name = "haiku-skills", specifier = ">=0.17.1" },
+    { name = "haiku-skills", specifier = ">=0.17.2" },
     { name = "httpx", specifier = ">=0.28.1" },
     { name = "jinja2", specifier = ">=3.1.0" },
     { name = "jsonpatch", specifier = ">=1.33" },
@@ -1788,7 +1788,7 @@ provides-extras = ["docling", "s3", "voyageai", "mxbai", "cohere", "zeroentropy"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "haiku-skills"
-version = "0.17.1"
+version = "0.17.2"
 source = { registry = "https://pypi.org/simple" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "ag-ui-protocol" },
@@ -1798,9 +1798,9 @@ dependencies = [
     { name = "pyyaml" },
     { name = "skills-ref" },
 ]
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 [[package]]