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Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
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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
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Public search query: agent applied the same fix to every failing test without diagnosing: r
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Bounds a flake-reproduction loop with an explicit retry budget: capped attempts, exponential backoff with a ceiling, and automatic escalation to quarantine when the budget is exhausted. Use when an agent burns hours retrying a reproduction that never converges. Not for deterministic failures, which should fail fast on…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent posted a PR titled "bump deps" with zero context after the release-notes fetch timed out - agent stripe webhook handler timed out after 10s: stripe disabled the endpoint
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Public search query: agent's flake reproduction timed out after N retries: exponential re
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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…
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Public search query: agent labeled a test flaky that only fails on main — PRs never ru
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Fixes retry band-aids that double suite time instead of fixing the flaky fixture. Use when test-level retries were added over an unstable test database. Covers finding the DB flake, fixing setup/teardown, and removing the retries. Not for retries around genuinely external services.
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: - agent called it flaky because the error differed per run - it was actually locale-dependent date formatting - [the agent said "flake" because the error changed every run, but it was actually an unini…
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Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent said "flake" because the error changed every run, but it was actually an uninitialized random seed - [agent fixed a flaky test by adding cleanup, but the leak was in a different test that r…
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Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
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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 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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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
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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
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Public search query: agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries
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Detects tests that fail on every first attempt but appear green because a retry loop eventually passes them, using per-attempt logging and a first-attempt-failure gate. Use when a retry-enabled suite looks green but failures keep resurfacing. Not for suites without retries or genuinely flaky tests.
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