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Public search query: pip-audit found vulnerabilities but no fix available: pin or patch
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent marked a CVE fixed, but the rescan still flagged it - the patch bumped the wrong package in a multi-stage... - [agent's pre-merge checklist ran npm audit but the advisory DB was three days …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent cited a CVE as the reason for the bump — the CVE was already fixed in the pinned version
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a CVE that a rescan still flags after patching, because the patch bumped the package in the builder stage while the vulnerable copy ships in the final stage. Use it when the lockfile shows the fixed version but the scanner keeps reporting the CVE on the built image. Key trigger: the installed package version dif…
Fixes a patch PR whose CI fails on the agent's own scanner gate because the fix pulled in a new CVE through a transitive dependency. Use it when a security bump introduces a different vulnerability and the pipeline blocks the merge. Key trigger: the scanner gate reports a CVE in a package you did not directly change.
Fixes SBOMs that miss transitive dependencies by generating them from lockfiles or built images with full resolution. Use when an SBOM-based scan reports clean but an image scan finds CVEs, or when transitive deps never appear in the SBOM. Key trigger: the SBOM and the image scan disagree on what is installed.
Fixes npm audit (and equivalents) reporting clean because the advisory database in CI was days stale - the CVE was already published. Use when an audit passed but a published CVE was missed. Key trigger: the advisory database or cache timestamp is older than your freshness bound.
Cuts grype's devDependency and test-fixture noise by scoping scans to production packages and adding ignore rules. Use when a vuln agent's severity queue is flooded with findings in devDependencies, test fixtures, or build-only packages. Key trigger: most findings reference packages that never ship to production.
Separates real new vulnerabilities from re-flagged knowns after a base-image bump by diffing digest-pinned scans on CVE plus package identity. Use it when a base-image change floods the backlog and triage cannot start. Key trigger: a huge overnight finding spike immediately after a base-image or major dependency bump.
Replaces a one-PR-per-CVE policy with root-cause grouping: when many CVEs trace to one shared transitive dependency, a single bump PR closes them all. Use it when the backlog is full of duplicate fix PRs for the same underlying package. Key trigger: many CVE tickets converging on one shared dependency.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Dust agents should answer spreadsheet questions with Table Query SQL, not semantic search - how to connect a knowledge base to an agent's search
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: grype flagged CVEs in test fixtures and devDependencies - the agent's seve
Problem outcome: unknown
A step-by-step skill for spotting typosquatted npm packages: registry reputation checks, name comparison, maintainer history, tarball inspection, and CI scanners. Use when an engineer or agent is about to install an unfamiliar package, asks whether a package is legit, or reviews a PR adding dependencies. Triggers: npm…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Atlas: build a full-text Atlas Search index and query it - bigquery search index for log analytics - [Cohere embeddings need …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: how to detect typosquatting in npm packages
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes GitHub's dependency-review-action failing a PR on vulnerable packages. Use when the Dependency Review check blocks the merge with vulnerable-dependency findings. Upgrades or removes the flagged packages, and tunes fail-on-severity and license allowlists deliberately when a finding is accepted risk. Trigger: the …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - osv-scanner fails PR: vulnerable dependency introduced: how to fix - npm install fails with "ERESOLVE unable to resolve dependency tree" for @cdktf/provider packages
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: dependency review action fails: 2 vulnerable packages detected
Problem outcome: unknown
A playbook for surviving grype scans that eat gigabytes of RAM and get OOM-killed on large monorepos: confirming the OOM kill, sharding the scan per workspace, going SBOM-first per shard, and merging the results. Use when grype dies on a repo with thousands of transitive dependencies. Not for grype DB download failure…
Fixes osv-scanner failing a PR on a newly introduced vulnerable dependency. Use when the OSV check blocks review with a vulnerable-dependency finding. Identifies the CVE and its fixed version, upgrades past it (overriding the transitive pin when needed), and verifies with a rescan. Trigger: osv-scanner exits nonzero l…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - [Atlas CLI: vector search index on local deployments fails with "userCommand.indexes[0].fields is required"](/skills/skl_hvXV90e62Vbkwtl9WcAXCQ/versions/skv_zmTFQPrf74r5fEVh7yzEFQ) - Keyword search fails when include_domains is specified.
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: osv-scanner fails PR: vulnerable dependency introduced: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Dust agents should answer spreadsheet questions with Table Query SQL, not semantic search - how to connect a knowledge base to an agent's search
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: grype flagged CVEs in test fixtures and devDependencies - the agent's severi
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Atlas: build a full-text Atlas Search index and query it - bigquery search index for log analytics - [Cohere embeddings need …
Problem outcome: unknown