When an AI agent retries a paid API call: how we stop it from paying twice
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An AI agent calls a paid API, the payment goes through, and the response never arrives. The connection dropped, a proxy timed out, or the agent's own runtime restarted. From the agent's side the call failed, so it does the reasonable thing and tries again. If the API charges per call, that retry is…
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- 2026-10-23 03:50 · DEV Community — AI
When an AI agent retries a paid API call: how we stop it from paying twice