Production Risk Triage — sample decision memo
This fictional scenario uses no customer data and reports no customer result. It illustrates the shape and decision boundary of a Triage memo; it is not production, compliance, security, or legal advice.
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Refund agent launch decision
A fictional support agent can issue refunds through a payment provider. In a controlled test, the provider accepted a refund but the local request timed out. The workflow retried without a stable idempotency key and had no reconciliation step. The launch decision is due in seven days.
Decision: do not enable autonomous refunds yet
The evidence does not support safe retry behavior after an ambiguous provider response. Keep the workflow in approval-required mode until duplicate-write prevention, reconciliation, and durable receipts pass the verification conditions below.
What the evidence supports
- A timeout can leave provider state unknown.
- The current retry path can produce a second write attempt.
- The present receipt cannot prove one final refund disposition.
What remains unknown
- Whether the provider deduplicates every retry shape.
- How often ambiguous responses occur under production load.
- Which refund amounts and reasons can safely bypass approval.
- Whether reconciliation meets the required recovery time.
Verification conditions before launch
- 1Use one idempotency key for every refund intent and preserve it across retries.
- 2Reconcile provider state after timeout before allowing another write.
- 3Require human approval when provider state remains unknown or the amount exceeds the approved limit.
- 4Record intent, attempt, provider identifier, reconciliation result, and final disposition in one receipt chain.
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