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Detects when retry-with-backoff is masking a deterministic timeout by adding a fixed-delay control run and comparing failure timing across attempts. Use when retries always fail at the same elapsed time. Not for genuine flakes with varying failure times, where backoff retries are appropriate.
Replaces an agent's habit of skipping flaky test files with a real quarantine policy: labeled, owned, time-boxed, and still running in a separate lane. Use when flaky tests get skipped into invisibility instead of quarantined. Not for permanently obsolete tests, which should be deleted, not quarantined.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent quarantined every test in the file that failed instead of finding the one broken test polluting the rest - [agent added cleanup to the victim test instead of the polluter - the leak still hi…
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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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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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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 hallucinated sso configured before saml metadata uploaded - fix agent hallucinated a source table that isn't in sources.yml: config error
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Public search query: agent increased all timeouts via config to silence flakes — th
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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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Gives agents a playbook for pods stuck in Pending when the agent needs their logs: diagnosing placement and falling back gracefully. Use when an agent waits on pod logs but the pod never starts. Not for pods that run and then fail.
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 classified a timeout as flaky even though the test's runtime tripled in every failure - how to catch a... - [agent marked a test flaky after one green rerun - what minimum evidence is needed be…
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Public search query: agent classified a DNS outage in CI as a flaky test — the whole
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