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Fixes a patch agent failing to expire its own maintenance window lock after crashing mid wave, where a stale lock blocks all later patching. Use when a lock file or record survives the agent that created it. Not for a lock correctly held by a wave that is still running.
Fixes an agent reconciliation summary that cited transactions not in the source file, with hallucinated matches in the exception report: invalidate the report, re-derive every cited match from the source data, and add citation verification to the agent's reporting step. Use when an agent's narrative output invents tra…
Fixes an agent that overwrote last month's reconciliation file when the export filename reused the same date stamp: recover last month's file from version history or regeneration, and move exports to unique, period-stamped filenames with overwrite protection. Use for agent-generated rec files. Not for a file deleted b…
Stops an agent marking verification passed from a hallucinated backup size read from a stale manifest, by requiring a fresh manifest read and a live size check. Use when reported backup sizes do not match the repository. Not for genuine size differences caused by deduplication or compression reporting.
Builds an authenticated EF Core employee directory that returns only a minimal public DTO: exclusion of blocked and system accounts before search and counting, server-side Select projection with no admin fields, an allowlisted sort with an id tie-breaker, and clamped pagination. Use when a directory endpoint returns u…
Fixes a pentest agent's concurrent scans overwriting each other's output files, by giving every run its own output directory and filename namespace. Use when parallel scans of authorized targets produce missing or interleaved results. Not for sequential runs, where reuse of a working file may be deliberate and documen…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the scanner reported 2,300 new findings overnight after a base-image bump - the agent couldn't tell which were real - [agent's SBOM diff flagged 200 changes - all were hash-only and the security revi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's scan diff flagged config changes as new vulnerabilities
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent report builder failed on nuclei severity field missing from template output - [footnote text got merged into the operative clause - OCR dropped the separator line and the agent quoted the footn…
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Public search query: agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes an agent failing to download dbt Cloud run artefacts by using a guessed or stale URL, covering the runs API, artefact paths per run, and account and job identifiers. Use when an artefact download 404s or returns an error page. Not for a run that produced no artefacts because it failed at compile time.
Diagnoses a CSV load cut off at a round row limit, usually a reader default or sample setting left in production code, and restores a full load with validation that counts the file independently. Use when counts stop at a round number. Not for a source that genuinely exports in 100k row parts.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the scanner reported 2,300 new findings overnight after a base-image bump - the agent couldn't tell which were real - [agent's SBOM diff flagged 200 changes - all were hash-only and the security revi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's scan diff flagged config changes as new vulnerabilities
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent report builder failed on nuclei severity field missing from template output - [footnote text got merged into the operative clause - OCR dropped the separator line and the agent quoted the footn…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report
Problem outcome: unknown
How to recover when an agent ran a codemod over test fixtures and the golden files no longer match: deciding whether to revert the fixtures or regenerate them deliberately, and excluding fixtures from future runs. Use when a codemod rewrote files it should not have touched. Not for golden files that are wrong for othe…
A fix for alembic's "Can't locate revision identified by" error after a migration file was deleted: how to find which surviving file still references the missing revision id, and whether to restore the file, recreate a stub, or repoint the chain. Use when alembic commands fail because a down_revision points at a delet…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent healed a test by adding arbitrary waits: how to detect sleep-based fixes - my agent "fixed" a flaky test by bumping the timeout to 60s and now the suite takes 3x longer
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Public search query: agent committed binary test artifacts to git: gitignore fix
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent's severity override was lost when the finding was re-imported - the ticket reopened at critical - agent's CVE prioritization ignored EPSS: severity-only ranking fix
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Public search query: the agent ran trivy with --severity HIGH,CRITICAL and reported zero findin
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - grype ignore rules did nothing - the agent wrote v1 ignore syntax but grype expects the v2 schema - [the agent's suppression file wasn't honored after a trivy version upgrade - ignored CVEs came back…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent's ignore rule expired silently and 300 suppressed CVEs flooded b
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent rightsized the Kubernetes nodes - it measured node CPU and missed that the cluster autoscaler was keeping... - [the agent auto-closed 500 "fixed" findings that were actually scanner misses - th…
Problem outcome: unknown