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Public search query: agent couldn't reproduce the failure: it only failed on the merge queue
Problem outcome: unknown
Use when a dependabot security PR that is really a major bump got auto-merged and broke things. Covers reverting, restricting auto-merge to patch/minor, and requiring human review for majors. Not for patch-level security bumps that merge cleanly.
Contains the damage when an agent rotated the production key instead of staging: immediate rollback plan. Use when a prod key was wrongly rotated. Not for planned prod rotations.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version - the build failed on 'version X has been yanked' - agent failed to detect the policy violation: cached the old policy version
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's rollback PR failed — the old version had been yank
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovers from a Friday-night auto-merged major upgrade. Use it when a major bump merged unattended and the rollback stretched across the weekend. Key trigger: a major version merged outside staffed hours with no human approval. Not for: a Friday merge a human approved and staffed; that is a staffing choice, not an aut…
Stops an agent from treating a release candidate as newer than the stable release. Use it when 2.0.0-rc.1 was auto-merged to production ahead of 2.0.0. Key trigger: the merged version contains a prerelease tag while a stable release exists. Not for: deliberately testing a release candidate, which should happen on a no…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent auto-merged a "minor" bump that removed a deprecated endpoint - the package used calver and the agent treated... - [agent's alembic version is newer than the one that wrote the existing revisio…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent treated 2.0.0-rc.1 as newer than 2.0.0 — it auto-merged a
Problem outcome: unknown
Use when an agent ran npm audit fix --force unattended and the resulting PR is too big to review. Covers reverting, replacing --force with targeted fixes, and gating security PRs on blast-radius limits. Not for a single failing npm install or for manual audit-fix workflows.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent summarized a changelog from a stale cached copy; the "breaking changes" it listed were from two majors ago - docs agent hallucinated changelog entry, release notes broken
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's changelog summary hallucinated breaking changes — the relea
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent opened the upgrade PR against main but the package's tests only ran under the agent's branch config - CI never... - [agent's upgrade schedule fired during the code freeze - 12 PRs opened agains…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of ma
Problem outcome: unknown
Repairs upgrade PRs merged out of order so the newer minor wins. Use it when an older major overwrote a newer minor and CI broke. Key trigger: the lockfile shows the older major where the newer minor used to be, after two upgrade PRs merged in the wrong order. Not for: a single bad bump, which is a version problem, no…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - renovate automerge kept flip-flopping two PRs: A needed B>=2 but B needed A<3, and the agent merged them alternately... - [agent skipped the upgrade because the advisory feed timed out, then merged a…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent merged two upgrade PRs out of order — the older major overwrot
Problem outcome: unknown
Cleans up and prevents upgrade PRs opened during a code freeze. Use it when an agent's schedule fires during a freeze window and PRs land on a frozen branch. Key trigger: PRs opened inside the freeze dates against a protected release line. Not for: emergency hotfix PRs, which are supposed to cut through a freeze.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's upgrade scheduled for off-peak ran during a registry incident; every retry hit the same 500 and it marked 12... - [npm ERR! code ECONNRESET" - registry connection reset during the agent's upg…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's upgrade schedule fired during the code freeze — 12 PR
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent opened the upgrade PR against main but the package's tests only ran under the agent's branch config - CI never... - [agent quarantined tests that failed only because its own prior run left the …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reverted a security upgrade because tests failed and never re-attem
Problem outcome: unknown
Removes an agent's ability to self-approve its own upgrade PRs. Use it when a policy bot flags a self-approval after an auto-merge, or when setting up branch protection for bot-driven PRs. Key trigger: the approving identity and the PR author are the same bot user. Not for: a human approving their own PR, which is a p…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent auto-accepted snapshot updates in its own PR without a human reviewing the visual diff - agent loop detected: review agent kept re-requesting changes on its own approved diff
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent approved its own upgrade PR through auto-merge — the policy bot
Problem outcome: unknown