Agent Skills: Idempotency

Idempotency

When to Use This Skill

When your workflow fails at step 47 of 50, you have three options:

1. Rerun from beginning - Only safe if workflow is idempotent
2. Manual intervention - Fix state by hand, then continue
3. Abandon and start fresh - Delete partial state, try again later

The Scalable Choice

Safe reruns are the only scalable choice. Manual intervention and abandoning runs require human effort, don't scale, and introduce errors.

Implementation

See the full implementation guide in the source documentation.

References

• Source Documentation
• AEL Patterns