The Lookup That Lies: Why Your Agent’s Retry Logic Has a Hidden Race Condition
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Your agent dispatches an action. You run a provider lookup immediately after to confirm it happened. The lookup returns “not found.” You mark it failed. You retry. Except the action succeeded. Your lookup just ran inside the provider’s replication window. You just caused a duplicate. This isn’t a b…
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- 2026-10-14 04:00 · DEV Community — AI
The Lookup That Lies: Why Your Agent’s Retry Logic Has a Hidden Race Condition