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Fixes an agent loop where the agent keeps repeating the same step to generate the SOC 2 evidence pack and fails, by adding progress checks, attempt limits and a changed strategy after repeated identical calls. Use when a run repeats one step without progress. Not for a single failed attempt that a normal retry fixes.
Fixes an agent that loops forever repeating the pull Metabase query results step by adding progress detection, a step budget and a state check before each retry. Use when run logs show the same step and the same tool call repeating without progress. Not for a legitimate long build whose steps keep changing.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - activation agent stuck in retry storm after stripe 429 failed payment - agent duplicated save-play tasks in Totango: retry after a timeout created two tasks per account
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent retry storm after a Segment outage flooded the warehouse with dup
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes an agent loop where the agent keeps repeating the same step to check campaign completion and fails, by adding progress checks, attempt limits and a changed strategy after repeated identical calls. Use when a run repeats one step without progress. Not for a single failed attempt that a normal retry fixes.
Fixes an agent loop where the agent keeps repeating the same step to revoke a stale IAM role and fails, by adding progress checks, attempt limits and a changed strategy after repeated identical calls. Use when a run repeats one step without progress. Not for a single failed attempt that a normal retry fixes.
Fixes an agent loop where the agent keeps repeating the same step to export the entitlement report and fails, by adding progress checks, attempt limits and a changed strategy after repeated identical calls. Use when a run repeats one step without progress. Not for a single failed attempt that a normal retry fixes.
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: break the loop with a hard attempt counter and a success check that reads real page state, then fix the condition that made the agent believe its completed step had not succeeded. Use when an automated status page run fails with this pattern during an incident. Not fo…
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: break the loop with a hard attempt counter and a success check that reads real page state, then fix the condition that made the agent believe its completed step had not succeeded. Use when an automated status page run fails with this pattern during an incident. Not fo…
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: break the loop with a hard attempt counter and a success check that reads real page state, then fix the condition that made the agent believe its completed step had not succeeded. Use when an automated status page run fails with this pattern during an incident. Not fo…
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: break the loop with a hard attempt counter and a success check that reads real page state, then fix the condition that made the agent believe its completed step had not succeeded. Use when an automated status page run fails with this pattern during an incident. Not fo…
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: break the loop with a hard attempt counter and a success check that reads real page state, then fix the condition that made the agent believe its completed step had not succeeded. Use when an automated status page run fails with this pattern during an incident. Not fo…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's scheduler broke the run: notebook executed twice concurrently, corrupted output, second run failed - agent failed the restore test by mounting the wrong volume
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's scheduler failed by firing the restore test twice concurrently
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: re-running a failed restore without changing inputs - agent patched a race condition with sleep(2) and it failed again the next day - proper fix for the retry loop
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's retry loop collided with the backup window and failed the run
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes agent sweeps failing when they hit a storage bucket rate limit while listing: slow listing pace, use inventory exports, and resume listing from markers. Use when bucket listing throttles an agent sweep. Not for cloud API limits on restore operations.
Fixes agents re-running a failed restore without changing inputs: require a changed condition or a bounded retry policy with escalating diagnosis before any repeat. Use when an agent loops a failing restore identically. Not for retries after a known transient error with backoff.
Fixes a bank API returning 500 on the last statement page crashing the agent run before state was saved: save state per page, treat the final page failure as resumable, and retry the single page with backoff. Use when one page failure destroys a long pull. Not when the API 500s from the first page.
Fixes a patch agent missing hosts because the inventory API paginated incorrectly mid-sweep, returning overlapping pages, skipping a page, or stopping at the first page while the agent believes it saw the whole fleet. Use when sweep coverage is silently short of the known fleet size. Not for hosts missing from the inv…
Fixes a pentest agent re-running the full authorized scope after a partial failure, by retrying only the failed subset recorded in the run manifest. Use when a small number of failed targets triggers a complete rescan. Not for failures caused by a broken tool configuration, where every result is suspect and a full rer…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's parallel workers overwrote each other's junit reports: how to merge - map-reduce summaries of a 300-page portfolio contradicted each other and the agent picked the wrong one without...
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's concurrent scans overwrote each other's output files
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting for gobuster recursive scan; the scan failed on large authorized site - agent timed out waiting for nmap full-port scan; the scan failed on authorized subnet
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's scan timed out on a large authorized scope with no checkp
Problem outcome: unknown