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Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
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Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
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Fixes failed bisection when the agent uses a different random seed or ordering than CI. Use when an order-dependent failure never reproduces in the agent's bisection. Covers matching CI's seed and ordering exactly, capturing the seed from the failing run, and re-running the bisect under identical conditions. Not for s…
Fixes test failures caused by the app behaving differently when CI=true is set. Use when a test passes locally but fails on CI and the app changes behavior under CI. Covers auditing CI-env-dependent code paths, making tests env-aware, and documenting the CI=true contract. Not for genuine timing flakes.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent fixed the failing test in isolation but it only fails when test_zz_auth runs first - the ordering dependency is... - [agent's fix passed tests locally but broke the production dag order: deploy…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's fix passed in isolation but failed in the full suite —
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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…
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Public search query: agent quarantined tests that failed only because its own prior run lef
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Detects why Playwright test.describe.skip (or test.skip) behaves differently in CI than locally and makes skips deterministic. Use when tests skip on a developer machine but run in CI, or vice versa. Not for tests that fail instead of skipping, or for grep filters excluding tests.
Fixes unreproducible CI failures caused by architecture mismatch between the agent's x86 sandbox and arm64 CI runners. Use when a test fails on CI but passes in the agent's sandbox and the platforms differ. Covers matching the target architecture (emulation or native runners), and treating arch-specific failures as re…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent couldn't reproduce a failure because CI uses a different timezone and the test parsed a local date - [my agent couldn't see that CI runs tests alphabetically while locally they run in file orde…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent couldn't reproduce the failure — CI runs on arm64 and the ag
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent tested cache performance with a fresh Redis and reported 99% hit rate -- every key was warmed by the test itself - [agent's load test hit the rate limiter and reported 'p99 of 60s' -- it was me…
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Public search query: agent's test report contradicted the CI dashboard: how to reconcile
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
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Unblocks agent-driven dbt runs when one unrelated failure blocks the whole test suite. Covers scoping runs with dbt selectors, testing models in dependency order, and isolating failures without skipping real breakage. Use when dbt test or build fails on a model the agent did not touch.
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
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Teaches an agent to poll CI status efficiently with backoff, a hard time budget, and queued-vs-running detection instead of busy-waiting. Use when an agent blocks on CI results or burns its run waiting. Not for CI jobs that are slow because the tests themselves are slow.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent failed over to the preview environment but preview secrets were never set, worker returned 500s - agent's fix passed tests locally but broke the production dag order: deploy error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent fix passed ci but failed in prod: env var only set in ci
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent fixed the symptom in CI config but the test still fails on developers' machines - agent couldn't reproduce a failure because CI uses a different timezone and the test parsed a local date
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent misread the test failure: fixed staging, prod still broken
Problem outcome: unknown
Debugs the Playwright "waiting for getByRole('button') to be visible" timeout that only happens on CI. It walks through distinguishing a genuinely slow page from a locator that never matches in the CI environment, using traces and longer timeouts as diagnostics rather than permanent fixes. Use when a getByRole wait ti…
Breaks the agent loop where the agent alternates wrangler deploy and wrangler dev hoping the environment difference fixes the error. Use when runs bounce between local and remote without addressing the code. Not for legitimate local-vs-remote parity debugging or one-time environment checks.