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REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

AI-DRIVEN WORLD SAFETY

Batch Correlation, Ordering, Idempotency, and Retry

A deterministic transport contract that maps every character response to one request, preserves order, handles retries safely, and keeps identity separate from network metadata.

LEVEL 1

ORIENTATION

Why this matters

REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

One-sentence brief

Batch generation becomes unsafe when results can be reordered, merged, duplicated, or silently substituted after timeouts and partial retries.

REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

Three key points

  1. Every item has a unique client-provided correlation ID.
  2. Response order and item index remain explicit.
  3. Idempotency prevents duplicate work without pretending delivery is exactly once.
LEVEL 2

WORKING BRIEF

Evidence, context, and limits

REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

Use one canonical item collection

Accept one documented array name. A legacy alias may be mapped only when the canonical field is absent; providing both should fail rather than merge ambiguous intent.

  • No first-wins ambiguity.
  • Version deprecations remain visible.
REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

Require unique client item IDs

Each item declares a stable client item ID that is echoed in every outcome. Missing or duplicate IDs reject the batch before generation because downstream mapping would be unsafe.

  • Name is not a correlation key.
  • Seed is not a correlation key.
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Preserve ordering explicitly

Return item index and an ordered ID list so clients can verify that concurrent processing did not change the request mapping. Partial failures still occupy their original positions.

  • Do not rely only on array order.
  • Do not compact away failed items.
REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

Use idempotency with payload fingerprints

Bind a tenant-scoped idempotency key to a canonical request fingerprint. Reuse with the same payload returns the stored result; in-progress duplicates conflict; reuse with a different payload fails.

  • Exclude volatile transport metadata from the fingerprint.
  • Define retention and concurrency behavior.
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Retry only retriable items

Construct a new batch for failed retriable items while preserving client item IDs and using a new idempotency key. Identity or constraint failures require human or input repair, not blind retries.

  • Back off on rate limits.
  • Preserve the original batch lineage.
LEVEL 3

COMPLETE DOSSIER

Limitations, game links, and review context

DISPUTED / MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS

Known limitations and gaps

  • The six supplied reports are preserved research leads. Their filenames, organizations, citations, examples, thresholds, and technical detail do not authenticate authorship, sponsorship, product status, or current factual accuracy.
  • The public section is design literacy, not a production specification. It does not expose provider credentials, prompts, live endpoints, activation tokens, autonomous tool use, or implementation code for a running agent system.
  • Population-quality measures must detect mechanical repetition and coherence failures without treating demographic rarity, disability, nationality, language, religion, gender, migration, or another protected characteristic as a defect or quality score.
  • Thresholds, similarity methods, sampling plans, language rules, and runtime budgets require representative testing, privacy review, accessibility review, cultural and linguistic review, security review, and accountable human approval before any production use.
REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

Decision matrix

Retry decision.
Failure type Retriable? Required client action
Timeout or transient generation failure Yes, bounded New idempotency key; same client item ID
Duplicate or missing client item ID No Repair batch identity contract
Identity substitution No Revise generation or constraints; preserve requested identity
Rate limit Yes after declared delay Respect Retry-After and jitter
Semantic contradiction Usually no Correct source requirements or review
REAL-WORLD INTERPRETIVE

Publication audit checklist

Identity and agency

Does the design preserve the exact fictional identity, ordinary life, independent goals, and ability to refuse rather than reducing the character to a role or prompt?

Pass condition: Identity fields are stable, state is separate, protected traits are not quality scores, and silent substitution is impossible.

Evidence and review

Can every transition, validation result, accepted fingerprint, exception, and human decision be traced to a versioned record?

Pass condition: Automated checks, human review, activation authority, and production approval remain separate and explicit.

Runtime boundary

Can untrusted provider output, administrative evidence, stale revisions, or private data enter live context or binding state?

Pass condition: Only allowlisted, current, reviewed projections and bounded scene or memory packets can be used; failures degrade safely.

Correction and retirement

Can a changed source, identity revision, harmful behavior, or failed review invalidate downstream use without destroying audit history?

Pass condition: Supersession, pause, rollback, correction, and permanent retirement are defined and testable.

LEVEL 4

RESEARCH EDITION

Sources, methods, and stable links

REAL-WORLD VERIFIED

Method and corrections

This page follows the public method for provenance, confidence, source independence, alternative accounts, limitations, review state, and visible correction.

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