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Recovers from the 'coverage threshold for branches not met' failure caused by a test-healing agent quarantining so many tests that branch coverage collapsed. Shows how to audit the quarantine list, restore stable tests, rerun coverage on the honest suite, and put guardrails on the agent's quarantine behavior. Use when…
Verifies an agent's claim about which commit introduced a test failure using git blame plus a boundary test at the commit and its parent. Use when an agent names a culprit commit and you need to confirm before reverting. Not for flaky failures with no code changes or environmental breakage.
Scopes an agent's test runs to affected tests via changed-file mapping and runner-native selection, reserving full runs for nightly or pre-merge. Use when an agent runs thousands of tests for a small change. Not for release validation where the full suite is genuinely required.
Audits test deletions by healing agents using git history, per-deletion justification, and coverage comparison. Use when reviewing agent PRs that remove tests, or when suite test counts drop after healing. Not for feature-removal deletions you approved yourself.
Teaches a dbt agent blast-radius control: run the model's own tests before and after, keep changes minimal, and review the diff so fixing a downstream test never breaks its upstream model. Use when a fix damages a working model. Not for changes that intentionally alter the model.
Teaches an agent to navigate deep dbt ref chains programmatically with dbt ls graph operators and the manifest's dependency maps instead of reading files by hand. Use when a test's ancestry is too deep to follow manually. Not for shallow chains.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent merged a green upgrade PR that only passed because the test job was skipped - the workflow's path filter... - [HawkScan REST coverage needs a real OpenAPI spec; spider-only scans test a fractio…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent deleted the only test covering the payment path — coverage of
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes an agent that tries to diff two deployed worker bundles and blows its context window. The skill diffs the source commits behind each version instead, and when only bundles exist it hashes per-module chunks to isolate the changed modules before diffing just those.
A rollback-and-repair playbook for when an agent deleted the test that was leaking state instead of fixing the leak: restore the test, find the leak at its source, and keep the restored test as the regression guard. Use when a deletion made the suite green while the underlying state pollution survives. Not for tests d…
Fixes upgrade PRs that pass CI without ever running the bumped package's tests: the agent verified against its own branch config while main's real test suite never ran. Use when an upgrade PR looks green but downstream tests break after merge. Key trigger: checks on the PR do not include the package's own test job.
Outlines an incremental migration from Cypress to Playwright: run both side by side, migrate new and high-value tests first, keep CI green throughout. Use when moving suites without a big-bang rewrite. Not for starting fresh with Playwright.
Fixes agents that verify upgrades with only the bumped package's own tests, missing downstream breakage. Use when an upgrade merges green and then breaks consumers that were never tested. Key trigger: 30 downstream tests breaking after a merge that passed the package's own suite.
Fixes resuming a codemod that crashed after converting 200 files, leaving the repo half on the old API. Use when tests fail both ways and the transform needs a safe resume point. Key trigger: git shows ~200 modified files and the rest still use the old API.
Covers test data cleanup strategies after e2e runs: API-driven teardown, seeded markers, and transaction rollback. Use when test data leaks between runs or suites depend on execution order. Not for unit test fixtures.
Shows how to force an agent to re-verify tests before quarantining when its quarantine list has silently grown to a large share of the suite. Use it when quarantine keeps growing without review and coverage is quietly shrinking. Not for one-off legitimate quarantines, and not for suites that have no quarantine mechani…
Audits an agent's quarantine or skip list that swept up tests which were never failing. Use when a quarantine PR skips more tests than the failure history justifies or coverage drops unexplained. Diff every entry against real failure evidence, require a cited failing run per entry, and remove or re-verify anything wit…
A playbook for choosing fail-fast vs collect-all test runs in CI, with the exact flags for pytest, jest, and playwright and guidance on when each mode saves wall-clock time and agent tool budget. Use when CI runs are slow, an agent is burning tool budget on a doomed suite, or triage needs one clean signal fast. Not fo…
Checks staging-to-production parity before letting agents experiment in staging. Use when agents test changes in staging, when staging drift makes experiments meaningless, or when building agent testing workflows. Covers what parity means and how to verify it. Not for production testing.
A human-in-the-loop workflow for agent safety: run in plan mode, read the plan like a diff, check blast radius, approve or reject explicitly, and require re-review on mid-run changes. Use before an agent changes code, data, infrastructure, or money, or when building an audit trail of approvals. Triggers: 'review agent…
Shows how to fix retire an agent process layer without breaking hidden consumers, and prove the replacement loop. Use it when you hit this exact problem. Skip it when your error message or symptom looks different.
Shows how to fix synthetic API tests: critical paths, layered subtypes, block CI on fail. Use it when you hit this exact problem. Skip it when your error message or symptom looks different.
Sunsets obsolete tests safely: deprecation, verification, and removal. Use when tests cover removed features. Not for flaky tests (quarantine those).
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Google Custom Search: 10 results per query max, and the API is sunsetting - Google Custom Search: 10 results per query max, and the API is sunsetting
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: how to sunset obsolete tests safely
Problem outcome: unknown