An AI trade timed out. What should “retry” actually retry?

Imagine an agent submitting an $ETH → $USDC swap. The wallet returns a transaction hash, but execution observation does not complete before the client’s wait expires.

This is a hypothetical example.

The timeout tells us the wait ended. The original transaction may still be pending or may already have executed. Its status needs further investigation.

I want the agent to preserve:
• The original transaction hash
• Its authorization record
• The observation job identifier
• The last known state

It can then resume observation and verification, preserving pending, reverted, reorged, or undetermined outcomes.

A timeout alone should not trigger a new trade.

This is part of my work on PriorSeal: recovering authorization and execution evidence through existing operations after a restart or a lost response.

The wallet or executor continues to control transaction submission. Recovering historical evidence also does not renew an expired authorization.

After a restart, can your agent continue investigating the original transaction—or does it restart the entire workflow?

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