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Digital · Guided lesson

Add review, errors, and recovery

About 37 minutes
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The idea in everyday life

Make failures visible, route uncertain work to a person, and prevent retries from creating damage.

The idea

A reliable automation fails loudly, safely, and reversibly.

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One step at a time.

Use the sample or information you have permission to use. Keep your work as you go. You can pause between steps.

  1. 1

    Restore the exported run and enable its trigger. Change only T06 destination_available to yes, then rerun the six cases without resetting the queue.

  2. 2

    Expect DUPLICATE, DUPLICATE, DUPLICATE, REVIEW, SKIPPED, CREATED, with 3 destination rows and 12 cumulative log entries. Historical review items and alerts stay visible as evidence.

  3. 3

    The fixture owner confirms B104 belongs in Room B. Correct T04, replay only that header/row and verify B104 appears once; replay again to prove duplicate protection. Record the approval source.

  4. 4

    Write the owner guide from README: pause, export, restore matching release/config, inspect each batch, correct from confirmed source, replay stable IDs, use manual fallback and preserve rollback evidence.

Example

See how it works.

Outage recovery creates B106 only after the destination is available. Existing B101/B102 never duplicate. Approved correction of B104 yields Room B, 30 minutes, Ari. The review queue does not approve itself; old alerts are historical records, not an unresolved-case count.

Check your work

Did you cover these?

  • Your work includes an exception design with approval rules, duplicate protection, alerts, recovery procedure, and fallback owner.
  • Check this common mistake: Sending every failure to a generic inbox without enough context or ownership to resolve it.
  • A simulated outage and duplicate trigger produce a visible, owned, reversible response without double-processing.
Your work

What to finish

An exception design with approval rules, duplicate protection, alerts, recovery procedure, and fallback owner.

Common mistake

Watch for this

Sending every failure to a generic inbox without enough context or ownership to resolve it.

How can I tell I understand it?

A simulated outage and duplicate trigger produce a visible, owned, reversible response without double-processing.

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