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Admit a remote operation retry: An exhausted attempt budget permits one more request · case 01

The retry admission operation is admitted even though an exhausted attempt budget permits one more request.

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ROOT CAUSE

The admission path omits the attempt budget invariant while validating the other operation preconditions.

THE FAILURE

The admission path omits the attempt budget invariant while validating the other operation preconditions.

Unsuccessful approach: Adding the attempt budget check repairs the reported defect, but replacing the adjacent remaining deadline check loses that independent invariant.

Case contract

Return a Boolean admission decision for admit a remote operation retry. The record r must satisfy all of: r['retryable_result'] in [408,429,500,502,503,504]; r['attempt_budget'][0] < r['attempt_budget'][1]; r['remaining_deadline'][0]+r['remaining_deadline'][1] <= r['remaining_deadline'][2]; r['idempotency_safe'][0] or bool(r['idempotency_safe'][1]); r['retry_after'][0] >= r['retry_after'][1]. Extra tracing fields are ignored; validation does not mutate the record.

Why this case matters

A deterministic local contract for reliability. Each negative fixture violates exactly one invariant. No transport timing, persistence, cryptographic verification, or full protocol implementation is claimed.

1 / The failure

Exit 1

"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(r):
    return (r['retryable_result'] in [408,429,500,502,503,504]) and (r['remaining_deadline'][0]+r['remaining_deadline'][1] <= r['remaining_deadline'][2]) and (r['idempotency_safe'][0] or bool(r['idempotency_safe'][1])) and (r['retry_after'][0] >= r['retry_after'][1])
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
r = {'retryable_result': 503, 'attempt_budget': [2, 3], 'remaining_deadline': [5, 3, 8], 'idempotency_safe': [False, 'op1'], 'retry_after': [10, 10]}
check('valid operation', solve(r), True)
check('A permanent rejection triggers another attempt', solve(dict(r, **{'retryable_result': 400})), False)
check('An exhausted attempt budget permits one more request', solve(dict(r, **{'attempt_budget': [3, 3]})), False)
check('A retry cannot finish within its remaining request deadline', solve(dict(r, **{'remaining_deadline': [5, 4, 8]})), False)
check('A non-idempotent write is retried without an identity key', solve(dict(r, **{'idempotency_safe': [False, '']})), False)
check('A retry ignores the server requested wait period', solve(dict(r, **{'retry_after': [9, 10]})), False)
check('unrelated tracing metadata', solve(dict(r, trace='run-'+str(N))), True)
check('repeat validation is pure', solve(r), True)
invalid = {'retryable_result': 400, 'attempt_budget': [3, 3], 'remaining_deadline': [5, 4, 8], 'idempotency_safe': [False, ''], 'retry_after': [9, 10]}
keys = list(invalid)
pair = {keys[N % len(keys)]: invalid[keys[N % len(keys)]], keys[(N+1) % len(keys)]: invalid[keys[(N+1) % len(keys)]]}
check('two independent violations in variant', solve(dict(r, **pair)), False)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
valid operation	`True`	`True`	Passed
A permanent rejection triggers another attempt	`False`	`False`	Passed
An exhausted attempt budget permits one more request	`True`	`False`	Failed
A retry cannot finish within its remaining request deadline	`False`	`False`	Passed
A non-idempotent write is retried without an identity key	`False`	`False`	Passed
A retry ignores the server requested wait period	`False`	`False`	Passed
unrelated tracing metadata	`True`	`True`	Passed
repeat validation is pure	`True`	`True`	Passed
two independent violations in variant	`False`	`False`	Passed

SHA-256 / 6f161d58aec872f86707bd0208849c9a238003cbae66a4fbca4b2e42d59132fb

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1

"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(r):
    return (r['retryable_result'] in [408,429,500,502,503,504]) and (r['attempt_budget'][0] < r['attempt_budget'][1]) and (r['idempotency_safe'][0] or bool(r['idempotency_safe'][1])) and (r['retry_after'][0] >= r['retry_after'][1])
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
r = {'retryable_result': 503, 'attempt_budget': [2, 3], 'remaining_deadline': [5, 3, 8], 'idempotency_safe': [False, 'op1'], 'retry_after': [10, 10]}
check('valid operation', solve(r), True)
check('A permanent rejection triggers another attempt', solve(dict(r, **{'retryable_result': 400})), False)
check('An exhausted attempt budget permits one more request', solve(dict(r, **{'attempt_budget': [3, 3]})), False)
check('A retry cannot finish within its remaining request deadline', solve(dict(r, **{'remaining_deadline': [5, 4, 8]})), False)
check('A non-idempotent write is retried without an identity key', solve(dict(r, **{'idempotency_safe': [False, '']})), False)
check('A retry ignores the server requested wait period', solve(dict(r, **{'retry_after': [9, 10]})), False)
check('unrelated tracing metadata', solve(dict(r, trace='run-'+str(N))), True)
check('repeat validation is pure', solve(r), True)
invalid = {'retryable_result': 400, 'attempt_budget': [3, 3], 'remaining_deadline': [5, 4, 8], 'idempotency_safe': [False, ''], 'retry_after': [9, 10]}
keys = list(invalid)
pair = {keys[N % len(keys)]: invalid[keys[N % len(keys)]], keys[(N+1) % len(keys)]: invalid[keys[(N+1) % len(keys)]]}
check('two independent violations in variant', solve(dict(r, **pair)), False)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
valid operation	`True`	`True`	Passed
A permanent rejection triggers another attempt	`False`	`False`	Passed
An exhausted attempt budget permits one more request	`False`	`False`	Passed
A retry cannot finish within its remaining request deadline	`True`	`False`	Failed
A non-idempotent write is retried without an identity key	`False`	`False`	Passed
A retry ignores the server requested wait period	`False`	`False`	Passed
unrelated tracing metadata	`True`	`True`	Passed
repeat validation is pure	`True`	`True`	Passed
two independent violations in variant	`False`	`False`	Passed

SHA-256 / 95b989c95dddce6788b9b18fc05dadb9ef90f00108f906c4295505a6f32b84c0

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Verification & scope

This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:36:57.233890+00:00.

Case digest / e40e3a07d398e1913c5935ef005990596989a5b86419d727b39ded9dd2936e07