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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent fixed the symptom in CI config but the test still fails on developers' machines - agent couldn't reproduce a failure because CI uses a different timezone and the test parsed a local date
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent misread the test failure: fixed staging, prod still broken
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky test database - the suite now takes twice as long - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes misdiagnosed flakiness that is actually locale-dependent behavior. Use when a test fails differently on different runs or machines with varying error text. Covers checking locale settings, pinning the locale in test setup, and treating varying errors as an environment clue rather than flakiness. Not for genuinel…
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
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Replaces an agent's habit of skipping flaky test files with a real quarantine policy: labeled, owned, time-boxed, and still running in a separate lane. Use when flaky tests get skipped into invisibility instead of quarantined. Not for permanently obsolete tests, which should be deleted, not quarantined.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent quarantined every test in the file that failed instead of finding the one broken test polluting the rest - [agent added cleanup to the victim test instead of the polluter - the leak still hi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent couldn't reproduce a failure because CI uses a different timezone and the test parsed a local date - [agent labeled a test flaky that only fails on main - PRs never run it, so the flake is a me…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent couldn't reproduce the failure: it only failed on the merge queue
Problem outcome: unknown
Enforces single-variable discipline on flaky-test bisection so an agent cannot change two things at once and declare the result inconclusive-proof. Use when bisect results are muddy because the agent varied multiple factors per run. Not for exploratory debugging where the goal is a quick hypothesis, not a controlled e…
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
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Bounds a flake-reproduction loop with an explicit retry budget: capped attempts, exponential backoff with a ceiling, and automatic escalation to quarantine when the budget is exhausted. Use when an agent burns hours retrying a reproduction that never converges. Not for deterministic failures, which should fail fast on…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent posted a PR titled "bump deps" with zero context after the release-notes fetch timed out - agent stripe webhook handler timed out after 10s: stripe disabled the endpoint
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's flake reproduction timed out after N retries: exponential re
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Fixes nondeterministic eval comparisons by pinning random seeds, running each variant multiple times, and comparing distributions instead of single runs. Use when an agent's A/B eval conclusions flip between runs or seeds differ across compared runs. Not for deterministic unit-test flakes, which are a test-isolation p…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent opened the upgrade PR against main but the package's tests only ran under the agent's branch config - CI never... - [agent marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leak…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent labeled a test flaky that only fails on main — PRs never ru
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries - agent marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leaked the state
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes misdiagnosed flakiness that is actually locale-dependent behavior. Use when a test fails differently on different runs or machines with varying error text. Covers checking locale settings, pinning the locale in test setup, and treating varying errors as an environment clue rather than flakiness. Not for genuinel…
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