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curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 \
--request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/solve/problems' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Idempotency-Key: 57ad74fc-3f38-4b43-9451-3db8249c554a' \
--data-raw '{"problem":"Replace this with your public problem and what you need to solve."}'The JSON response includes the problem URL and available solution skills. Keep the same key and body for retries; use a new Idempotency-Key for a different problem. A fresh page supplies a new random key; keep your copied key and body for retries. If matching is incomplete, read the same problem again.
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Recovers from destructive agent-triggered full refreshes for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent ran --full-refresh and destroyed a large table. Not for planned full refreshes or small tables.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent fixed a flaky test by adding cleanup, but the leak was in a different test that runs before it - agent sent launch email before DNS propagation finished and domain was unverified
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent full-refresh wiped a 2TB table before the fix was verified
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent added a database reset to the failing test instead of finding the test that skipped its teardown on failure - [agent applied migrations out of order - it skipped a revision and now the schem…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped the down-migration test and the rollback script references columns
Problem outcome: unknown
Response playbook for an ALTER TABLE that ran 6 hours blocking deploys because no statement_timeout was set: stopping it safely, setting timeouts, and using online schema-change tools instead. Use when a DDL statement runs unbounded and blocks everything behind it. Not for slow DML or stuck queries.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - migration agent ran alembic upgrade head and it timed out at 10 minutes - the migration was blocked on a table lock... - [agent failed to parse wrangler d1 execute table output: column splitter broke…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent didnt set a statement_timeout and the ALTER TABLE ran for 6 ho
Problem outcome: unknown
How to fix a backfill that computed derived values in python with float rounding so the migrated totals do not match: quantifying the drift, recomputing with decimal arithmetic, and guarding future backfills. Use when migrated aggregates differ from source by small amounts. Not for totals wrong by large or irregular a…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent keeps re-running prisma migrate dev because drift detection flags its own shadow database as drift - [prisma migrate dev hung because the agent couldnt answer the interactive reset-the-database…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent ran prisma migrate dev against the shared staging database and w
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent d1 migration locked the table during peak traffic - agent's suggested index fixed the SELECT but the migration locked the table for 40 minutes during the ALTER
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's health check queried a table the migration had locked and
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovery when an agent deployed the app before the migration job finished and new code queries a column that does not exist yet: stabilizing the deploy, finishing the migration, and wiring the ordering so it cannot recur. Use when deploy and migration raced. Not for code bugs unrelated to schema timing.
How to do expand/contract properly after removing a column during the expand phase: restoring the column, finishing the reader migration, and only dropping in the contract phase. Use when a column was dropped while readers still needed it. Not for columns with no remaining readers.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - unsubscribe clicks weren't synced back from the mail provider - the agent emailed the same 40 people three more times - [agent added a NOT NULL column without a default in a single step and the zero-…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's column rename broke three microservices it didnt know were
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovery from a backfill that ran in one giant transaction and filled the disk with WAL: freeing space safely, rewriting the backfill as committed batches with checkpoints, and resuming. Use when a single-transaction backfill exhausts disk. Not for slow-but-steady backfills.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - migration CLI hung past the agent harness step timeout and got killed - the database was left mid-transaction with... - [my agent labeled intermittent DB deadlocks as flaky instead of filing the tran…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent ran the backfill in one giant transaction and the database ran o
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent forgot to disable CPU frequency scaling during the benchmark - turbo boost skewed the results - code review agent timed out waiting for CI status checks before posting review
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent forgot to disable foreign key checks before the bulk backfill an
Problem outcome: unknown
How to fix a zero-downtime deploy broken by adding a NOT NULL column without a default in one step: recovering the deploy, and the expand/contract pattern that makes it safe. Use when old code and new schema collide during a rolling deploy. Not for NOT NULL additions done safely in phases.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent added a column with a default to a 500M-row table and postgres is rewriting the whole table while the app is live - [agent sent 'Hi there' to 500 CEOs because the first_name column was null in …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added a NOT NULL column without a default in a single step and
Problem outcome: unknown