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LESSON03.370 minutes

Automate a repeated workflow

Design for failure and recovery

Force a failure, prevent duplicates, alert an owner, and finish the work manually.

DIRECT ANSWER

A workflow is not ready because the happy path ran once. It is ready to learn from only after timeout, bad input, duplicate trigger, partial completion, and manual recovery are visible and rehearsed.

Learning outcomes

What you should be able to show.

  1. 01Create a failure-mode list
  2. 02Define retry and duplicate behavior
  3. 03Rehearse manual completion and rollback

Studio practice

Make the lesson visible.

  1. 01

    Force five failures

    Test a missing field, unavailable service, invalid output, repeated trigger, and downstream rejection.

  2. 02

    Make state visible

    Record started, waiting, failed, needs review, completed, and reversed states with a named owner.

  3. 03

    Recover without the builder

    Give the runbook to another person and confirm they can stop, inspect, complete, retry, or reverse the case.

Evidence to keep

Your lesson record.

  • Failure matrix
  • State and alert record
  • Independent recovery result
REFLECT

What happens if the same trigger arrives twice while the first run is still waiting?

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