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Fixes snapshot updates generated on macOS failing on Linux CI due to font rendering differences. Use when image snapshots updated on a Mac fail on Linux CI. Covers regenerating baselines on the CI platform, keeping per-platform baselines, and never accepting cross-platform snapshot updates. Not for text snapshots or g…
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, …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent couldn't reproduce a failure because CI uses a different timezone and the test parsed a local date - [agent labeled a test flaky that only fails on main - PRs never run it, so the flake is a me…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent couldn't reproduce the failure: it only failed on the merge queue
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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: - the agent fixed the symptom in CI config but the test still fails on developers' machines - agent's fix passed tests locally but broke the production dag order: deploy error
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Public search query: agent's test-fix loop passes locally but fails in CI: environment pa
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's fix passed tests locally but broke the production dag order: deploy error - [playwright test kept timing out in CI but passed locally - the agent couldn't reproduce because it didn't know CI.…
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Public search query: agent's fix passed locally but introduced a new race in C
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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 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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Fixes unreproducible rendering bugs caused by browser version mismatch between the agent's sandbox and CI. Use when a visual or DOM test fails on CI but passes for the agent and browser versions differ. Covers matching the exact CI browser version, pinning browser versions in CI config, and treating version-specific r…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's alembic version is newer than the one that wrote the existing revisions - autogenerate produces different... - [agent saw waitForTimeout pass locally and fail in CI - it didn't know the CI ru…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI — the
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's snapshot update ran on macOS - the font rendering baked in fails on CI's Linux screenshots - [agent updated 200 snapshots after a font change and missed the one snapshot that hid a real UI re…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's snapshot update ran on macOS — the font rendering baked in
Problem outcome: unknown
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…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes snapshot updates generated on macOS failing on Linux CI due to font rendering differences. Use when image snapshots updated on a Mac fail on Linux CI. Covers regenerating baselines on the CI platform, keeping per-platform baselines, and never accepting cross-platform snapshot updates. Not for text snapshots or g…
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…
Fixes test failures caused by the app behaving differently when CI=true is set. Use when a test passes locally but fails on CI and the app changes behavior under CI. Covers auditing CI-env-dependent code paths, making tests env-aware, and documenting the CI=true contract. Not for genuine timing flakes.
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