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Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
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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
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Public search query: agent applied the same fix to every failing test without diagnosing: r
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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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Teaches agents to parse dbt output reliably: exit codes over text matching, and the summary lines that actually signal failure. Use when an agent reports success on a failed dbt run. Not for dbt runs that genuinely succeed.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent didn't know CI sets CI=true - the app disables animations in CI and the test's timing assumptions broke - [playwright test kept timing out in CI but passed locally - the agent couldn't reproduc…
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Public search query: agent didn't know CI shards the suite — the failing test
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries - agent marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leaked the state
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Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
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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…
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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 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]…
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Public search query: agent quarantined a test whose only failure came from the agent's own
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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…
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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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 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