agent reviewed the base branch instead of the head ref
Fixes review agents reviewing the base branch instead of the PR head by fetching the correct ref. Use when the review discusses code not in the PR. Not for stale-head reviews.
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Fixes review agents reviewing the base branch instead of the PR head by fetching the correct ref. Use when the review discusses code not in the PR. Not for stale-head reviews.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to read the base branch: reviewed main-to-feature instead of feature-to-main: how to fix - [dependabot: update failed with "reference already exists" - the agent's rebase loop kee…
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Public search query: agent reviewed the base branch instead of the head ref
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - transcript chunking agent split mid-sentence, qa answers wrong - agent rate limit hit mid rfp amendment diff and failed to finish
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent diff chunker split mid-function: bug attributed to wrong lines
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Fixes review agents posting inline comments as top-level by correcting diff position mapping. Use when line comments appear as general comments. Not for comments on wrong lines within the diff.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to map comment positions: commented on lines outside the diff: how to fix - review agent failed to quote the right code line: off-by-one in diff position: how to fix
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Public search query: agent posted inline comments as top-level: diff position mapping failed
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Fixes review agents hallucinating files in summaries by grounding the summary in the actual diff file list. Use when the summary names files the PR never touched. Not for wrong-line attributions.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - code review agent froze mid-annotation on a minified bundle diff - code review agent hallucinating vulnerabilities that are not in the diff
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent review summary listed files not in the diff: hallucination
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Fixes review agents commenting on the wrong PR due to pagination indexing bugs. Use when agent comments land on a different PR than intended. Not for comments on the right PR but wrong lines.
Fixes review agents summarizing the merge commit by diffing base against head. Use when the summary describes base-branch changes. Not for summaries of the wrong PR.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to review the PR diff: reviewed the merge commit instead: how to fix - enrichment agent matched companies by name only and merged two different acme corps
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Public search query: agent summarized the merge commit instead of the PR diff
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - upgrade PR opened with no release notes: the repo kept its changelog in a .rst file the agent couldn't parse - [agent's dependency-dashboard PR grew to 300 files - operators couldn't review it and cl…
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Public search query: agent could not parse no newline at end of file diff markers
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Fixes agent state comparisons against wrong artifact paths for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when state:modified matched everything due to a bad --state path. Not for legitimate full builds.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - dbt state:modified bug: comparing wrong artifacts - agent generated the client from the provider's OpenAPI spec - the spec's examples were wrong and every happy-path...
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Public search query: agent state:modified comparison used the wrong artifacts path: rebuilt
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Diagnoses a canary analysis that passes or fails for the wrong reason: its error rate was compared against the wrong baseline. Covers fixed success thresholds copied from another service, stale reference windows, and metric queries that never isolate the canary arm. Use when a canary verdict contradicts observed behav…
Fixes an agent that dies on rate limits while diffing an RFP amendment by adding backoff and resume. Use it when amendment diff runs fail partway. Not for diffs that complete with wrong results.
Fixes diffing against a stale baseline so every real change appears twice. Use when the change list shows each edit duplicated or the count is roughly double the expected. Covers version registry with checksums, always baselining on the latest agreed version, and a count-sanity guard. Not for genuinely duplicated edit…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's redline summary said "47 changes" but 46 were smart-quote replacements from the other side's Word auto-correct - [agent parsed both the PDF text layer and a fresh OCR pass - every clause appe…
Problem outcome: unknown