this is exactly where I took a look:

-Publisher [ASH2VCL05INST4\CLSAVCL05INST4] -PublisherDB [VS_VALIDATION] -Distributor [ASH2VCL05INST3\CLSAVCL05INST3] -Publication [VS_VALIDATION] -DistributorSecurityMode 1 -Continuous

The replication agent encountered an error and is set to restart within the job step retry interval. See the previous job step history message or Replication Monitor for more

information.

Previous step doesn't have any message at all.