If I understand your requirements, you want the @Retry annotation to actually (skip retrying) on specific types of exceptions.

So you are looking for abortOn. https://download.eclipse.org/microprofile/microprofile-fault-tolerance-4.0.2/microprofile-fault-tolerance-spec-4.0.2.html#_retry_usage

    /**
     * In case the underlying service throws an exception, it will be retried,
     * unless the thrown exception was an IO exception.
     */
    @Retry(retryOn = Exception.class, abortOn = IOException.class)
    public void service() {
        underlyingService();
    }