Your agent retried.
The charge went through twice.

// Works anywhere — agents, for loops,
// queue workers, plain async functions.

const verity = new VerityClient({
  apiKey: process.env.VERITY_API_KEY,
});

// Exactly once — even across crashes.
const charge = await verity.protect(
  `charge-${orderId}`,
  {
    observe: () =>
      stripe.charges.retrieve(orderId),

    act: () =>
      stripe.charges.create({
        amount: 5000,
        currency: 'usd',
      }),
  }
);

// Also works in for loops — entire batch
// is safe to retry with zero duplicates.
for (const order of pendingOrders) {
  await verity.protect(
    `charge-${order.id}`,
    { act: () => processOrder(order) }
  );
}