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Workflow Reliability Glossary

Definitions used across the AI Workflow Reliability Lab.

Idempotency
A design property that prevents repeated processing of the same event from creating repeated effects.
Retry
A controlled attempt to repeat an operation that may succeed later.
Dead-letter queue
A holding path for events that cannot be processed safely after bounded attempts.
Guardrail
A deterministic control that limits, validates or requires approval for an action.
Least privilege
Giving a workflow only the permissions required for its defined task.
Human approval gate
A pause that presents a specific proposed action for review before execution.
Regression test
A repeatable check that confirms a correction still handles a known failure case.
Observability
The ability to understand workflow state from logs, traces, metrics and downstream effects.

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