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Suppress a Repeat Request Without Losing the First

A caller that retries after a timeout can send the same request twice, and if both are carried out the effect happens twice. This skill covers request deduplication for agent systems: give each request a key derived from the caller and the intent, keep a short record of the keys already in flight, return the first result to the repeat caller rather than running the work again, bound the record so it does not grow without limit, and make the key strong enough that two genuinely different requests do not collapse into one.

Commands

$ openclaw command add --name "request-dedup" --trigger "/dedup" --source "Ops Console" --message "Track the keys of requests in flight, so a caller that retries after a timeout does not cause the same effect to happen twice."

$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Duplicate Requests" --group-by "caller" --window "10m" --action "Alert when the same request key arrives more than once in a short window, which points at a caller retrying a request that was already accepted."

$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Return First Result" --condition "request.key in inflight_keys" --action "Return the result of the first request rather than running the work again, so a repeat does not produce a second effect." --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-info" --cooldown "5m"

$ openclaw runbook add --name "Request Dedup" --trigger "/runbook dedup" --tags "integration,ops" --steps "Derive a key from the caller and the intent. Keep a short record of keys in flight. Return the first result to a repeat. Bound the record. Keep the key strong."

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Suppress a repeat request without losing the first

Suppress a Repeat Request Without Losing the First

# Suppress a repeat request without losing the first A caller that times out and retries can send the same request twice. If both are carried out, the effect happens twice, and the caller sees only one reply, so the duplicate is invisible from the outside. ## Derive the key from caller and intent

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