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A guide to fixing stale Intercom conversation state in agent search results, in the business-apis-integrations category: read-your-writes consistency, cache invalidation, and freshness checks. Use when agents act on outdated conversation data, search shows old state after updates, or when building agents on Intercom d…
A guide to stopping agents from hallucinating ticket ids when linking related tickets, in the business-apis-integrations category: id verification, link-by-search, and grounding discipline. Use when agents invent ticket references, related-ticket links point nowhere, or when auditing agent output accuracy. Not for tic…
Finds slow Elasticsearch queries via the search slowlog after enabling thresholds. Use when slowlog threshold warnings appear. Key trigger: the slowlog threshold exceeded message.
Fixes MySQL 'Lock wait timeout exceeded' by identifying the blocking transaction via performance_schema or InnoDB status. Use when updates stall and then die on lock waits. Key trigger: the exact lock-wait-timeout error text.
Fixes Cassandra ReadTimeoutException caused by oversized partitions: shows how to find the hot partition with nodetool tablestats and query tracing, then shrink it by adding a time bucket to the partition key. Use when reads time out on one table while the cluster itself is healthy. Key trigger: nodetool reporting a m…
Reads a Postgres deadlock DETAIL line to find the two colliding queries. Use when the log shows 'deadlock detected' with waiter and blocker processes. Shows how to map both PIDs to their SQL and fix the lock ordering. Key trigger: DETAIL names a waiter process blocked by another process.
Stops segfaults when pandas.read_csv on a 4GB file kills the kernel: the process ran out of memory or hit a parser edge. Read in chunks, select columns, or use a lazy frame. Not for import-time crashes.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - how to read a 10GB CSV without crashing pandas - pandas read_csv "parser error" troubleshooting - [duckdb out of memory readi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: kernel died with segfault when running pandas read_csv on 4GB file
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes an agent that fetches a Cloudflare docs page and gets a JavaScript shell with no article text. The skill routes around the renderer entirely by pulling the same content as markdown from the public cloudflare-docs GitHub repo, with the docs search JSON endpoint and headless rendering as fallbacks.
Controls result weighting in Google Custom Search (Programmable Search Engine): keywords for a quick relevance boost, weighted labels (BOOST/FILTER/ELIMINATE, weights -1.0 to +1.0) to promote, demote, restrict, or exclude tagged sites, and annotation scores (-1.0 to 1.0) to fine-tune per site. Use when a search engine…
Fixes the ImportError pandas raises when read_excel needs openpyxl and it is not installed. Install with pip or conda in the same environment that runs pandas, retry the read, and it works. Covers the venv mismatch case (installed but not importable) and the conda-forge route. Not for .xls legacy files (needs xlrd), c…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - importerror: import openpyxl failed. use pip or conda to install the openpyxl package. - ImportError: Missing optional dependency 'openpyxl'. Use pip or conda to install openpyxl.
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: importerror: import openpyxl failed. use pip or conda to install the openpyxl package.
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - importerror: import openpyxl failed. use pip or conda to install the openpyxl package. - ImportError: Missing optional dependency 'openpyxl'. Use pip or conda to install openpyxl.
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: importerror: import openpyxl failed. use pip or conda to install the openpyxl package.
Problem outcome: unknown
Gets a GitHub issue triage batch past search API rate limits. Covers authenticating, reading rate-limit headers, checkpointing pages, caching issue bodies, and pacing requests proactively. Use when an agent paging through workerd issues starts 403ing mid-batch. Key trigger: triage dies around page 30-40 of issue searc…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - how to read a 10GB CSV without crashing pandas - pandas read_csv "parser error" troubleshooting - [duckdb out of memory readi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: kernel died with segfault when running pandas read_csv on 4GB file
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - how to read a 10GB CSV without crashing pandas - pandas read_csv "parser error" troubleshooting - [duckdb out of memory readi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: Kernel died when running pandas read_csv on 4GB file
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes slow PostgreSQL full-text search on a GIN index: expression mismatch that makes the planner ignore the index, pending-list bloat on write-heavy tables, fuzzy result sets capped with gin_fuzzy_search_limit, and ts_rank costing inside a LIMIT subquery. Use when a @@ query on a tsvector GIN column runs a sequential…
Handles Brave Search API 429 rate limit errors: honor Retry-After, add exponential backoff, cap concurrency, and check plan quota. Use when Brave search calls return 429 or rate limit exceeded in a loop or crawl. Not for 401/403 auth errors or 429s from a different API.
Fixes pandas ParserError: Error tokenizing data when read_csv hits malformed rows. Use when CSV reads die mid-file, when an agent ingests messy exports, or when quoting and delimiters are inconsistent. Not for encoding errors, for missing files, or for dtype conversion failures.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - pandas read_csv "parser error" troubleshooting - canary analysis "insufficient data" errors: how to fix metric gaps - [Encode…
Problem outcome: unknown