Categorizing posts using AI characters: A post received 11 replies in a short period

Has anyone else encountered this issue?

How should I troubleshoot this situation?

The first response timing makes sense.

It looks like the second response timing comes after a reply and is possibly a few things..

  • job retry issue
  • user quick edits (but then that’s too many)

Can you confirm 36646-36656 replies are for the post in 36578?

I set it to trigger only when the post is the original post in the topic. In theory, there should only be one auto_reply_bot record, and the same goes for other posts. But suddenly, one post received 11 replies, which is quite confusing.

Looks like all of these are replies to the original post. Was the automation triggered repeatedly?

The timings of the subsequent bot replies are quite suspicious.

By the way, @singi2016cn are you updated? Do you have workflows plugin? It’s a new core plugin intended to replace automation plugin, if you port your automation over it could be easier for troubleshooting.

Discourse v2026.1.4 — https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/02ecb80804 — Ember v6.6.0

I’m still using the automation plugin

Yeah – I’m going to suggest that you update your instance.

“使用 ai 角色对帖子进行分类” doesn’t exist any more from what I can see in the codebase, I believe it’s a simple term change to “使用 AI 智能体对帖子进行分类”.

Regarding your issue, the automation plugin notoriously has always had idempotency issues. If you update, you should consider switching this “automation” to a “workflow” via the new workflow plugin.