Instruction: Describe how you would make AI-triggered actions safe to retry.
Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Describe how you would make AI-triggered actions safe to retry.
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I would require idempotency keys or equivalent replay-safe identifiers for any action that can have externally visible side effects. Then I would track action state centrally so retries are based on confirmed execution state rather than on model intuition.
Retry policy should also depend on failure type....
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