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Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: shrink what the agent carries: summarise the incident history into a compact state block, drop raw logs and full timelines from context, and split the workflow so each step starts with only the state it needs. Use when an automated status page run fails with this patt…
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: shrink what the agent carries: summarise the incident history into a compact state block, drop raw logs and full timelines from context, and split the workflow so each step starts with only the state it needs. Use when an automated status page run fails with this patt…
Fixes an incident summary built on stale thread or ticket state instead of live system state, covering source of truth checks, timestamps on every claim, and re-verifying state at write time. Use when an incident report contradicts the systems it describes. Not for a summary that is wrong because the underlying monito…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent patched a race condition with sleep(2) and it failed again the next day - proper fix for the retry loop - [agent ran the migration against staging and it passed, then the same file failed on pr…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent fixed the dev schema: prod failed the same way the next day
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes the triage problem where an agent cannot tell which of several failing tests is the root cause and which are downstream symptoms. Use when a build reports many test failures at once. Not for a single failing test.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent patched a race condition with sleep(2) and it failed again the next day - proper fix for the retry loop - [agent ran the migration against staging and it passed, then the same file failed on pr…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent fixed the dev schema: prod failed the same way the next day
Problem outcome: unknown
Makes workflow rollbacks safe by versioning the full bundle of workflow, prompts, and tool contracts, and testing the rollback path in staging. Use when decisions break right after a rollback. Not for bugs in the current version.
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.
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
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…
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…
Use when a registry retag makes one digest look like two images and the report contradicts itself. Covers tracking tag-to-digest history, fixing the dedup key, and reconciling the report. Not for genuinely distinct images sharing layers.
Use when CVE tickets land on the wrong team because a multi-app image confused the agent's service mapping. Covers building an image-to-service map from deployment manifests and forcing the agent to look up instead of guess. Not for scanner false positives.
Fixes a docs agent whose preview deploy clobbered the staging branch. The skill shows how to recover staging, isolate preview deploys to ephemeral targets, and gate branch writes in the agent's deploy step. It gives the branch-protection pattern for agent deploys.
Fixes version rollouts shifting 100% traffic instead of the intended fraction. Use when gradual rollouts go all-at-once. Key trigger: full traffic on the new version instantly.
This skill helps SRE agents verify a deploy after kubectl rollout status times out. It shows how to check deployment and ReplicaSet state directly to distinguish a slow rollout from a failed one, and how to teach the agent loop to verify before retrying. Use it when an agent wants to retry or roll back a deploy that m…
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 bumped a 100ms assertion to 500ms and called it fixed - the latency regression is now invisible - [agent tested with warm caches but the p99 incident is always cold-cache Monday morning traffic…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent optimized p50 and shipped a p99 regression - it measured the wrong
Problem outcome: unknown
Teaches a dbt agent that local test passes do not guarantee a safe deploy: CI must run the full DAG in a prod-like environment, and DAG order must be verified with dbt ls before merging. Use when a locally-green fix breaks production. Not for failures that also fail locally.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - canary deploys for agent-initiated changes - cost agent flagged a false spend spike - it compared Black Friday traffic against a quiet September baseline
Problem outcome: unknown