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title: "Resuming a task after failure"
description: "How can you resume a task without repeating a completed external action?"
status: "coming-soon"
language: "en"
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> Coming soon — this article is being prepared. Below are its question, intended outcome, and place in the story.

## The question

How can you resume a task without repeating a completed external action?

## What we will work through

Resume a task without repeating a completed external action.

## Before you begin

Previously covered: Planning and task decomposition; Idempotent HTTP operations.

- [Planning and task decomposition](/en/articles/topics/T57.05/)
- [Idempotent HTTP operations](/en/articles/topics/T38.05/)