A zap answered by two tabs no longer reports as failed.

Every open tab of the same wallet sees every wallet-connect request. Two
hidden tabs on one laptop both tried to pay the same zap: the ASP refused
the second with "payment already in progress", and that error reached
Amethyst half a second before the first tab's preimage. A Web Lock per
request now lets one tab (or the worker) answer while the rest stay
quiet, and a device that does meet "already in progress" waits for the
sibling payment's outcome — relaying its preimage only if the payer never
speaks — instead of shouting a failure over sats that went through. The
losing side also stops writing a failed row into history for it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QYJfZ4A1TDCEY4Foq3CApR

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diff --git a/src/nwc-lock.js b/src/nwc-lock.js
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+// One request, one answerer per origin.
+//
+// Every open tab of the same wallet (and its service worker) sees every NWC
+// request. Without exclusion two hidden tabs on one laptop both paid a zap:
+// the loser's "payment already in progress" error reached the client half a
+// second before the winner's preimage, and the zap showed as failed while
+// the sats had gone. Web Locks are shared by every same-origin context, so
+// the first to claim a request's lock answers it and the rest stay quiet.
+// Where locks are unavailable (tests, ancient engines) the caller just runs.
+export async function withRequestLock(id, fn, held = () => undefined) {
+  const locks = typeof navigator !== 'undefined' && navigator.locks;
+  if (!locks || !id) return fn();
+  return locks.request(`nwc-req:${id}`, { ifAvailable: true }, (lock) => (lock ? fn() : held()));
+}