Two Writes, One Charge: An Idempotency Decision Tree for Agent Steps
Consider a nightly job that walks an invoice queue and calls a payments tool once per invoice. The run takes eleven minutes. In minute nine the worker is restarted — deploy, OOM kill, a dropped connection, the reason does not matter. The retry loop resumes from the last checkpoint and re-executes t…
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- 2026-11-06 16:54 · DEV Community — AI
Two Writes, One Charge: An Idempotency Decision Tree for Agent Steps