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title: "Designing Idempotent Side-Effect Contracts for AI Agents"
date: 2026-09-27
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description: "A timed-out agent tool may already have changed the world. Design explicit side-effect contracts, idempotency, reconciliation, and safe recovery."
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# Designing Idempotent Side-Effect Contracts for AI Agents

A timed-out agent tool may already have changed the world. Design explicit side-effect contracts, idempotency, reconciliation, and safe recovery.

*Published: 2026-09-27*