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Public search query: agent timed out waiting for CI to report back: how to poll efficiently
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Fixes the Playwright "A test was not run because it exceeded the timeout" sharding failure in CI. It shows how to find the shard and test that overruns, rebalance shards, and mark genuinely slow tests so one long test stops poisoning its whole shard. Use when sharded CI runs report unrun tests with this message while …
Fixes the Jest "Exceeded timeout of 5000 ms for a test" error that only hits on CI's slowest shard. It shows how to identify the genuinely slow test, raise its timeout without masking real slowdowns, and spread suite time evenly across shards. Use when a Jest test passes locally but times out on one CI shard while oth…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - rails migration hit a timeout acquiring the advisory lock because another deploy was running db:migrate at the same... - playwright test timeout 30000ms exceeded: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: playwright A test was not run because it exceeded the timeout sharding i
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Fix for review agents that blow their review time budget running the PR's full test suite. Use when the test step exceeds the review timeout, the whole review fails because tests hung, or slow suites make every review late. Key triggers: suite timeouts, review jobs killed at the time limit, test steps dominating revie…
Fixes Fauna transaction-aborted-due-to-timeout errors on contended documents: shows how to find the hot documents, shard counters across multiple docs, shrink transactions, and stop read-modify-write pileups on a single doc. Use when concurrent writers abort while single-threaded tests pass. Key trigger: aborts naming…
Fixes Cassandra ReadTimeoutException caused by oversized partitions: shows how to find the hot partition with nodetool tablestats and query tracing, then shrink it by adding a time bucket to the partition key. Use when reads time out on one table while the cluster itself is healthy. Key trigger: nodetool reporting a m…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - rails migration hit a timeout acquiring the advisory lock because another deploy was running db:migrate at the same... - playwright test timeout 30000ms exceeded: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: playwright A test was not run because it exceeded the timeout sharding issue
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - data agent timed out waiting for bigquery job: polling pattern - provisioning agent timed out waiting for jamf mdm push confirmation
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Public search query: agent timed out waiting for CI to report back: how to poll efficiently
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - playwright test kept timing out in CI but passed locally - the agent couldn't reproduce because it didn't know CI... - [agent fixed the failing test in isolation but it only fails when test_zz_auth r…
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Public search query: agent didn't know CI shards the suite — the failing test depends o
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent "fixed" a flaky test by bumping the timeout to 60s and now the suite takes 3x longer - my agent's fix made the assertion wait longer instead of fixing the endpoint that got 10x slower
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Public search query: agent's test sharding unbalanced: one shard took 10x longer
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - docker scout scan never finished on the agent's CI runner - the job hit the 6-hour GitHub Actions timeout - [flyway migrate hit the command timeout but the schema change kept running in the backgroun…
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Public search query: agent's long-running suite hit the job timeout: split strategy
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - cucumber tags not filtering scenarios: how to fix - flaky tests from parallel workers sharing ports: how to isolate - [flaky …
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Public search query: cucumber parallel scenarios database collision: how to isolate
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - dbt singular test passes locally but fails in dbt cloud - flaky test passes locally but fails in CI: debugging - [the agent f…
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Public search query: go test -race passes locally fails in CI: how to fix
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A CI-timing repair guide: CI runners with fewer or slower CPUs starve the browser event loop, so fixed waits like waitForTimeout expire before the app responds. Use when Playwright waits pass locally but time out in CI. Not for waits that fail everywhere or for application bugs that are slow on all machines.
Covers sharded extraction dying on one bad shard: isolate failures per shard and continue. Use it when one package aborts the whole run. Not for uniformly slow scans.
A runtime-baselining playbook: without a recorded history of each test's duration, every timing failure looks like noise and real regressions slip through. Use when timing failures get dismissed as flakes with no data to judge them against. Not for one-off slowness with an obvious environmental cause.