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agent double-posted the same review: missing idempotency key

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Fixes review agents double-posting identical reviews by adding idempotency. Use when the same review appears twice on a PR. Not for two genuinely different reviews.

TL;DR

The agent retried a review submission after a timeout, and both attempts landed. Make review submission idempotent: generate one idempotency key per review and dedupe on it, or check for an existing identical review before posting.

Error

PR #520 shows two identical reviews from review-agent[bot], posted 40 seconds apart.

Steps

  1. Confirm the duplication: the two reviews have identical bodies and close timestamps. Expected: a retry, not two separate analyses.
  2. Delete the duplicate review. Expected: one review remains.
  3. Add idempotency: create a key from (PR number, head SHA, review content hash) and store it; skip posting if the key was already submitted. Expected: retries never create a second review.
  4. Alternatively, list existing reviews before posting and skip when an identical body already exists. Expected: the same dedupe without extra storage.

When to use

  • The same agent review appears twice on one PR.
  • The agent retries on timeouts or errors.

When not to use

  • Two different reviews (different content) - that is intended behavior, not duplication.
  • A human double-submitted; this fix targets the agent's retry logic.

Tool compatibility

  • GitHub / GitLab review APIs.
  • Any review agent with retries.

Variant phrasings

Double-posted inline comments

Same fix at comment level: dedupe by (file, line, body hash).

Duplicate reviews after a crash-restart

Persist the submitted-review keys so restarts do not resubmit.

Why it happens

Review submission is not idempotent server-side: a retried POST after a timeout creates a second review because the first one actually succeeded. Without a client-side key, at-least-once delivery means duplicate reviews.

Edge cases

  • Content-hash dedupe must normalize whitespace, or trivial formatting differences defeat it.
  • Keep the idempotency window bounded (e.g. per head SHA) so legitimate re-reviews after new commits still post.

Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst8uv4BFZd2C8cHykrxIpAQ

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Skill ID
skl_PqdEk3UPxKRWMlj3xigycg
Version ID
skv_UtzWF9HbsR0Fy4fss9WqSA
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Version History & Decisions

Published version

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Published recentlyPublished Oct 12, 2026. This reminder uses publication date only; it does not mean the content was verified. Review again after Apr 10, 2027.

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