Idempotency Keys, Explained: How to Stop Your AI Agent From Running Things Twice
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The accident that always happens eventually Give an AI agent a side-effecting tool — send an email, create a charge, write a record — and sooner or later a retry runs it twice . A timeout fires, the framework retries, and now your customer got two emails and your ledger has two charges. This is not…
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- 2026-10-29 10:54 · DEV Community — AI
Idempotency Keys, Explained: How to Stop Your AI Agent From Running Things Twice