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curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 \
--request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/solve/problems' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Idempotency-Key: 0395c9e5-05d0-4336-af85-fcb859cd3d9a' \
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Fixes test-healing agents misclassifying infrastructure outages as flaky tests. Use when a batch of tests failed together during a known infra incident. Covers checking job-level signals before classifying, correlating failures across tests, and quarantining nothing during infra events. Not for isolated single-test fl…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent classified a timeout as flaky even though the test's runtime tripled in every failure - how to catch a... - [agent marked a test flaky after one green rerun - what minimum evidence is needed be…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent classified a DNS outage in CI as a flaky test — the whole
Problem outcome: unknown
Teaches an agent to quarantine flaky authorized targets instead of re-scanning them after every timeout. Use when the agent burns its time budget re-hitting the same timing-out host. Not for one-off timeouts on otherwise healthy targets.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent quarantined a test that only failed because the agent itself left a stale docker container running - [agent verified the upgrade by running only the package's own test suite - 30 downstream tes…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent quarantined tests that failed only because its own prior run lef
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes test-healing agents misclassifying tests as flaky when the retry passed only because it hit a cache. Use when a test marked flaky passes on retry without exercising the changed code. Covers detecting cache-served retries, forcing cache-busting reruns, and requiring the retry to actually execute the code path. No…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent closed a failing test as "flaky" because it passed on retry, but the retry ran with a warm cache - [test-healing agent marked a real regression as flaky - the test failed 3 times in a row but w…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: test-healing agent marked a passing-on-retry test as flaky — the retry
Problem outcome: unknown
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…
Caps the time an agent may spend re-running a single flaky test with a retry budget (max attempts times per-attempt timeout) plus quarantine-on-exhaustion. Use when an agent grinds on one test instead of escalating. Not for human-led debugging sessions or suites that are uniformly slow.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent marked a flaky test as fixed after one green run: how to verify - agent marked a test flaky after one green rerun - what minimum evidence is needed before calling it a flake
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: re-running the same failing test without code changes - Coding agent retry loop on a failing tool call: classify errors, bound retries, require idempotency, detect no progress
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's retry loop hid a consistently failing test: how to detect
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Stops agents from reverting good fixes on a single flaky failure by requiring repeated runs and a two-signal revert policy. Use when an agent undoes its own fix after one red run. Not for fixes that fail consistently on every run.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent debugged a CI failure using its own sandbox, which had the browsers preinstalled - CI downloads them fresh each... - agent's fix corrupted a working model while fixing its downstream test
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reverted its own fix after a flaky failure: how to stabilize
Problem outcome: unknown
Caps a flaky-test quarantine list with required schema fields, 30-day TTLs, auto-expiry, and a hard size limit enforced in CI. Use when the quarantine file keeps growing and quarantined tests are forgotten. Not for deciding whether a specific test is flaky.
Covers locale QA agents looping failed screenshot suites: quarantine after one retry and finish the suite. Use it when the same specs fail every run. Not for systemic flakiness.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent's quarantine list silently grew to 15% of the suite - how to force it to re-verify before quarantining - [agent quarantined 40 tests as flaky in one run - the quarantine threshold was too a…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's flaky-test quarantine list grew unbounded: how to cap it
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent added a database reset to the failing test instead of finding the test that skipped its teardown on failure - [test healing agent updated the assertion instead of fixing the code: how to cat…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent disabled the failing test instead of fixing the data
Problem outcome: unknown