Guardrails & Safety

Tier: Pro | Type: Automation / Background

!!! tip "Key Insight" Automation without guardrails becomes a liability. These controls are the “seatbelts” that let AlmaSEO run unattended across many sites without turning mistakes into public publishing incidents.

Overview

Includes: - Daily cap enforcement - Duplicate detection via similarity threshold - Idempotency keys to prevent duplicate jobs/posts on retries - Race-safe job claiming to support horizontal scaling - Retry policy with exponential backoff (up to 3 attempts) - Circuit breaker: pauses a site after repeated failures within a 24h window - Dead letter queue for jobs requiring manual review

Why It Matters

Makes it practical to trust automation in production by preventing the most common failure modes: duplicates, bursts, and repeated failing runs.