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Repairs schema-migration backfill failures with versioned schemas, per-version migrators, and resumable idempotent backfill jobs. Use when backfills die on renamed fields or leave half-converted history. Not for volume-driven backfill failures.
Keeps fraud scoring alive through model redeploys with blue-green serving, a canary health gate, and a warm standby for instant rollback. Use when scoring gaps line up with deploy timestamps. Not for chronic model slowness or network timeouts.
Keeps reviews alive through transaction-history API 500s with bounded retries, circuit breakers, and a defined degraded mode. Use when the agent's tool call throws on server errors. Not for 4xx client errors or bad queries.
How to fix a rollback script that references columns that no longer exist because the down migration was never tested: repairing the down migration and adding up/down testing to CI. Use when rollback fails on a stale down migration. Not for rollbacks that fail for data reasons.
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
Recovery when an agent's idempotency check read the wrong state table (flyway_schema_history instead of alembic_version): reconciling the real state and fixing the agent's procedure to check the tool the app actually uses. Use when a migration was skipped or double-applied because the agent consulted the wrong history…
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.
Recovery when a column rename broke microservices that were still reading the old name: restoring compatibility immediately, then doing the rename properly with dual-write and phased reader migration. Use when a rename broke unknown readers. Not for renames with no live readers.
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.
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.
Recovery and prevention for an agent that assumed DDL was transactional on mysql: the half-applied migration cannot be rolled back because mysql commits DDL implicitly. Use when a mysql migration failed midway and left a partial schema. Not for postgres, where transactional DDL usually allows rollback.
Response playbook for an agent running a destructive migration during business hours against the runbook: immediate assessment, completing or rolling back safely, and adding a time-window guard to the agent's procedure. Use when a risky migration ran at the wrong time. Not for destructive migrations that were schedule…
How to reconcile when an agent squashed migrations locally but production still runs the old files: why squashing applied history breaks, and the safe paths (keep old files, or stamp after proving schema equivalence). Use when a squash rewrote history that production already recorded. Not for squashes of never-applied…
How to recover when an agent applied migrations out of order, skipping a revision: comparing the state table against the file chain, applying the skipped revision safely, and reconciling when its work is already partially done. Use when the schema is inconsistent because a revision was skipped. Not for branching heads…
A guard playbook for when an agent runs a migration against production because DATABASE_URL pointed at prod: assessing what ran, and building target verification into the agent's procedure so it never happens again. Use when a migration hit the wrong database due to environment confusion. Not for migrations that faile…
How to safely retry a failed vitess online DDL migration cutover: checking the migration status, diagnosing why the cutover failed, and retrying or completing it explicitly. Use when an online DDL migration stalls or fails at cutover. Not for ordinary DDL errors in the migration SQL itself.
Snapshots before merges. Use when unmerge is impossible. Not for platform unmerge.
Contains the damage when an agent rotated the production key instead of staging: immediate rollback plan. Use when a prod key was wrongly rotated. Not for planned prod rotations.
Recovers when a rollback fails because the old version was yanked. Use it when the previous version is no longer installable from the registry. Key trigger: the rollback install fails with a yanked or not-found error for the old version. Not for: a rollback blocked by data migration, which is a state problem, not a ve…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version - the build failed on 'version X has been yanked' - agent failed to detect the policy violation: cached the old policy version
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's rollback PR failed — the old version had been yank
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovers from a Friday-night auto-merged major upgrade. Use it when a major bump merged unattended and the rollback stretched across the weekend. Key trigger: a major version merged outside staffed hours with no human approval. Not for: a Friday merge a human approved and staffed; that is a staffing choice, not an aut…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - renovate automerge kept flip-flopping two PRs: A needed B>=2 but B needed A<3, and the agent merged them alternately... - [agent skipped the upgrade because the advisory feed timed out, then merged a…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent merged two upgrade PRs out of order — the older major overwrot
Problem outcome: unknown