- Who it helps
- Developers of workflows with consequential external actions.
- Availability
- October 22 preprint and ancillary outcome files are public. A complete deployment recipe was not tested.
Four questions after an interruption
The study separates saved progress, authority to dispatch, evidence of an external effect and authority to reconcile it. It reports 336 histories across LangGraph and Temporal.
Permission to Retry: check authority after a workflow resumes ↗
Unknown outcomes stay explicit
Its retained-ledger policy keeps uncertain outcomes explicit. The experiment isolates recovery logic from language-model behavior, so its results do not establish general agent safety.
Permission to Retry: check authority after a workflow resumes ↗
What you can do
- Read the recovery histories and authority assumptions. Open reference ↗
Where the evidence stops
Abstract read October 29. No workflow or experiment was executed.
Sources read. Sources checked October 29, 2026. No installation, model inference or end-to-end workflow was executed.
Sources & further reading
Paper · paper
Permission to Retry: check authority after a workflow resumes ↗
Supports permission to Retry: check authority after a workflow resumes.
arXiv · page checked 2026-10-29
Coverage note: No qualifying current independent attention sample; original X posts unavailable. Reported outcomes were not independently reproduced.
The record over time (1)
Dated source checks and published explanations. An observation date can differ from the original release date.
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Permission to Retry examines what a recovering agent should do when permission or the outcome of an earlier action has changed.