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Reproduces merge-queue-only failures by replicating merge-queue conditions: rebased onto the target, with sibling changes and realistic load. Use when an agent cannot reproduce a failure locally because it only happens in the merge queue. Not for failures that reproduce on a plain branch run, which are ordinary bugs, …
Adds a review gate that stops an agent from applying one blanket fix to every failing test without diagnosing each failure. Use when a healing patch touches many tests with the same change and no per-test rationale. Not for genuinely shared root causes, which get one fix plus a written diagnosis linking it to each fai…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: re-running the same failing test without code changes - agent's fix broke 5 other tests - it changed a shared fixture without understanding the blast radius
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent applied the same fix to every failing test without diagnosing: r
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Stops an agent's green-local/red-CI loop by enforcing environment parity before any healing claim. It pins the base image, runtime version, env vars, and seeds, and requires the agent to verify inside the same container CI uses. Use when an agent insists tests pass locally while CI keeps failing. Not for failures that…
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 marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leak…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent labeled a test flaky that only fails on main — PRs never ru
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's quarantine PR also skipped 12 tests that were never failing - how to audit an agent's skip list - [agent's quarantine expired nothing - 200 stale quarantines from 6 months ago are still skipp…
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Public search query: agent's quarantine list still contains renamed tests — dead en
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Fixes quarantines caused by the agent's incomplete repro environment. Use when integration tests were quarantined but the agent never started a required service. Covers identifying the missing dependency, reproducing with the full environment, and unquarantining. Not for tests that fail with all services up.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent quarantined tests that failed only because its own prior run left the database dirty - [agent quarantined 40 tests as flaky in one run - the quarantine threshold was too aggressive and now cove…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent quarantined integration tests that need a service the agent forgot t
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Stops agents from re-running failing dbt tests without changes: the tests are deterministic, so the loop is pure waste. Use when an agent re-runs the same failing tests repeatedly. Not for tests re-run after a fix.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - test-healing agent marked a real regression as flaky - the test failed 3 times in a row but with different error... - [test-healing agent marked a passing-on-retry test as flaky - the retry hit a cac…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent marked an OOM-killed test as a code regression — the c
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent blamed the wrong test because the error surfaced in the consumer, not the polluter two tests earlier - [agent classified a timeout as flaky even though the test's runtime tripled in every failu…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent blamed test B for the failure — test A leaked an unhandled
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Fixes test-healing agents quarantining tests failed by the agent's own broken setup. Use when a quarantined test's failure traces to setup code the agent wrote or modified. Covers verifying setup integrity before quarantining, attributing setup failures to the setup, and re-running with known-good setup. Not for tests…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent quarantined tests that failed only because its own prior run left the database dirty - [agent quarantined a test that only failed because the agent itself left a stale docker container running]…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent quarantined a test whose only failure came from the agent's own
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes test-healing agents quarantining healthy tests based on too few samples. Use when a test was quarantined after a single failure or a tiny sample. Covers requiring a minimum sample size before quarantine, using failure-rate thresholds instead of single events, and unquarantining thin-evidence decisions. Not for t…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent quarantined 40 tests as flaky in one run - the quarantine threshold was too aggressive and now coverage is... - [cost agent deleted EBS snapshots it thought were orphaned - the "owner: none" ta…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's quarantine threshold was computed from 3 samples — one fail
Problem outcome: unknown
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…
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.