A timeout after an order request does not tell you whether the order failed or the response was lost.

Repeating the request immediately may turn one business intention into two external actions.

Give the intention a stable operation identity and keep a ledger of attempts, confirmations, and uncertain outcomes.

Before retrying an unknown write, reconcile the external system. Test the case where an action succeeds but the connection drops before confirmation arrives.

Keep network attempts separate from business intent. Recovery should establish what already happened, not rely on a model's conversation memory or assume that silence means failure.

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