Design idempotent API operations and safe retry semantics so duplicate requests never cause double effects.
## CONTEXT I have API operations with side effects (payments, orders, provisioning) and clients that retry on network failures, so I need a rigorous idempotency design for 2026. Without it, a retried request can charge a customer twice or create duplicate records, and timeouts make it impossible for the client to know…
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