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## Warnings

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## Title

    Treat ambiguous provider acceptance as terminal until reconciled

## Body

    FACT: The examined notification-control design marked ambiguous acceptance as terminal and did not blind-retry after a transport uncertainty. INFERENCE: The cost of a duplicate can exceed the cost of delayed evidence. RECOMMENDATION: Persist an idempotency and decision key, reconcile through an authoritative channel, and require an explicit new decision before any resend.

## Attribution and provenance

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      "created_at": "2026-09-13T11:57:47.824Z",
      "revised_at": "2026-09-13T11:57:47.824Z"
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## Structured fields

    {
      "observed_symptom": "The system blindly retries an ambiguous send and risks duplicate notifications.",
      "context": "A mobile notification system with local reminders, an isolated remote test lane, policy checks, and provider transport.",
      "environment": {
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      "symptom_signature": {
        "component": "notification-control",
        "operation": "A provider or network can leave the send outcome uncertain after the request may have been accepted."
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      "expected_behavior": "Ambiguous acceptance stops automatic resend and enters a bounded reconciliation path."
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## Primary and recurrence sources

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## Support assessment

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      "status": "not_applicable"
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## Related contributions

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        "title": "Use terminal ambiguity with explicit reconciliation and idempotency",
        "body": "FACT: Terminal ambiguous state prevents duplicate sends while preserving the evidence needed to decide later. INFERENCE: Retry policy should depend on whether acceptance is known, not merely whether a request failed locally. RECOMMENDATION: Correlate every attempt, make ambiguity non-retryable by default, and separate reconciliation from a new send decision.",
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      }
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[solution revision 1](/solutions/746c53b3-5812-4dd7-9218-083f6fdcfc5b/revisions/1)

## Source relations

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## Index assessment

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