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Advanced·Scenario·2 min read

Submission timed out. Should you retry?

Practice this question
  • First classify the outcome as potentially unknown.
  • Query or reconcile the external receipt by operation key, then retry only under a documented idempotency contract.
  • Reporting failure immediately could encourage duplicate customer submissions.
Adapted from 13_AI.MD · “29.11 Workflows”. Code examples are study fragments. Difficulty and core labels are editorial estimates; version-specific behavior should be checked against your project.