agent diff fetch 404d: PR branch deleted mid-review
Fixes review agents crashing on deleted PR branches by handling 404s gracefully. Use when the branch is deleted mid-review. Not for 404s on the PR itself.
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Fixes review agents crashing on deleted PR branches by handling 404s gracefully. Use when the branch is deleted mid-review. Not for 404s on the PR itself.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent hit secondary rate limit mid-diff-fetch: abuse detection mechanism triggered - code review agent froze mid-annotation on a minified bundle diff
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent diff fetch 404d: PR branch deleted mid-review
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents degrading to plain comments by granting the token write scope or documenting the limitation. Use when the agent cannot submit formal reviews. Not for agents with write access.
Fixes the 'draft pull requests cannot be merged' error by marking the PR ready for review. Use when the merge button is blocked because the PR is a draft. Not for other merge blocks.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - HttpError: Pull request reviews may only be submitted on open pull requests" - ecs CannotPullContainerError: API error (400) on task start
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: draft pull requests cannot be merged error
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a docs agent whose generated-docs commit is rejected by branch protection. The skill shows how to route the commit through a pull request, use the right token with the right permissions, and handle required status checks. It gives the PR-based flow for agent-generated docs.
Gates visual regression baseline updates behind human review with CODEOWNERS, no-auto-accept CI config, and draft PRs for agent-proposed changes. Use when baseline images or snapshots were updated and merged without review. Not for intentional redesigns already going through review.
Fixes release-drafter producing empty release notes because it cannot resolve the tag. The skill shows how to verify the tag exists, fix the tag resolution config, and handle draft releases on repos with unusual tagging. It covers the fetch-depth problem in CI checkouts.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to refresh line numbers after a force push: stale commit references: how to fix - review agent failed to review the PR diff: reviewed the merge commit instead: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent review referenced a commit sha from a different PR
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - A permission checklist before an agent uses a tool: working checklist - agent can't parse the PR description template: returned an empty summary
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent misread the PR template checklist as required blockers
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - GitHub returned diff too large when agent tried to read the full PR diff - agent confused the two cursors in the response - it used ending_before as the next-page cursor and walked backwards...
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent diff fetch returned the wrong PR: cached response mixup
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting for the pages build queue: preview build stalled for 30 minutes - agent failed over to the preview environment but preview secrets were never set, worker returned 500s
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent review queue starved: oldest PR never reached, priority inversion
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent hit secondary rate limit mid-diff-fetch: abuse detection mechanism triggered - code review agent froze mid-annotation on a minified bundle diff
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent diff fetch 404d: PR branch deleted mid-review
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - GitHub token expired mid-run while the review agent posted line comments - review agent failed to skip already-approved files after a rebase: wasted budget: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted a review on an already-closed PR: race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent lost its drafted comments when the runner was preempted: persistence: how to fix - [agent auto-closed an upgrade PR as "stale" while a human was mid-review, then reopened an identical on…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent lost review state when the PR was rebased mid-review
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: review agent kept re-requesting changes on its own approved diff - agent loop: requested review, dismissed it, requested review again
Problem outcome: unknown