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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…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
Problem outcome: unknown
Verifies an agent's selector fix across every target browser before accepting it, so a Chromium-only fix cannot break Firefox or WebKit. Use when a healed locator works in one browser but fails in others. Not for single-browser test suites, where cross-browser verification has nothing to check against.
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
Problem outcome: unknown
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: - 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
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's test-fix loop passes locally but fails in CI: environment pa
Problem outcome: unknown
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.…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's fix passed locally but introduced a new race in C
Problem outcome: unknown
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 edited production code to make the test pass - the assertion was right and the code was wrong, inverted - agent generated tests that pass vacuously with no assertions: how to catch
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent edited production code to make the test pass — the assertion
Problem outcome: unknown
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…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent didn't know CI shards the suite — the failing test
Problem outcome: unknown
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…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
Problem outcome: unknown
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
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 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…