Safe Retry
Let people retry failed work without doing it twice.
What it adds
A retry control on failed operations that knows which failures are worth retrying and which are not.
What your agent is told to do
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What your agent is told to do
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Find every operation that can fail mid-flight and currently leaves the user guessing: payments, invitations, uploads, exports, webhooks.
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Classify each failure as transient or permanent, and only offer retry on the transient ones. Invalid input, revoked permissions, and rejected cards will fail identically forever; explain the fix instead of offering a button that cannot work.
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Preserve the original input and the original error so a retry does not mean re-entering the form.
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Reuse the same idempotency key for every retry of one attempt so the second try cannot duplicate the first. The key mechanism itself belongs to Idempotent Form Submission — wire into it rather than building a second one.
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Do not retry automatically without telling the user. A silent background retry that eventually fails leaves them believing the work is still in progress.
Edge cases it handles
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Edge cases it handles
6- A timeout is not a failure. The work may have succeeded, so the retry path must be idempotent or the user pays twice.
- The retry control must disable itself while an attempt is running, and stay disabled through the response.
- Automatic retries need exponential backoff with jitter, or a recovering server gets knocked over again.
- Cap the number of attempts and then say clearly that it has stopped trying.
- A retry after a partial success must resume, not restart from the beginning.
- A failure the user cannot act on still needs an exit: a way to abandon the operation and clear it out of their way.
Definition of done
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Definition of done
8- Every retryable failure offers a retry, and every permanent one explains the fix instead.
- A retry reuses the original attempt's idempotency key rather than issuing a new one.
- Retry controls disable while an attempt is in flight.
- Permanent failures do not offer a retry.
- Original input and error context survive the retry.
- Automatic retries back off and stop at a defined limit.
- The feature matches the existing design system.
- No existing functionality is broken.
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Quarantine uploaded files until they are known safe.
What it does
A quarantine lifecycle for uploads: every new file is unreachable until scanned, with defined handling for scanner failures and infected results.
How it works
- 1 Give every upload an explicit scan state — pending, clean, infected, or error — and default it to pending the moment the bytes land.
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- 3 Scan asynchronously and update the state; do not block the upload request on the scanner.
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Rate Limiting
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What it does
Throttling on the endpoints that get abused: auth, search, exports, and public forms.
How it works
- 1 Identify the endpoints worth protecting: sign-in, sign-up, password reset, search, exports, and anything unauthenticated.
- 2 Limit by a stable identifier — user ID where signed in, IP otherwise. Be aware IP is shared behind NAT and proxies.
- 3 Return 429 with a Retry-After header. Do not silently drop the request.
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Password Generator
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What it does
A generate control on password fields that produces a strong value, shows it, and hands it to the user safely.
How it works
- 1 Add the control to every place a password is set: sign-up, password change, password reset completion, and any admin screen that provisions credentials for someone else.
- 2 Generate the value in the browser using the platform's cryptographic random source. The value must never be produced on the server or sent anywhere.
- 3 Reveal the generated password by default so the user can record it, and offer a regenerate control beside it. A hidden generated password that the user cannot see is a password they will immediately reset.
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Add this feature to my app:
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How it works
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Grab the Markdown instruction URL for this feature.
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Give it to your AI
Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable — whatever you build with.
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It inspects, then implements
Your agent reads your existing app first, then adds the feature to fit it.
Works with your stack
These instructions are written to adapt. They tell the agent to detect your framework, match your existing design system, and reuse what you already have — rather than assuming a particular stack.
Need it tighter than that? Customize the feature and tell it exactly what you're running.