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Public search query: agent loop detected: agent keeps running dbt build on same failing select without changes error
Problem outcome: unknown
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Public search query: agent loop detected: agent keeps running dbt build on same failing select without changes error
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - dbt source freshness check failed - feature is stale" error freshness check failed for feature view - [dbt source freshness w…
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Public search query: dbt source freshness failed error "sources.freshness stale: last loaded 3 days ago"
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's dbt debug passed but dbt run failed: profile target mismatch - agent failed to parse dbt cloud run logs: truncated json lines
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent+s+dbt+debug+passed+but+dbt+run+failed+profile
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes stale package code after an agent edited packages.yml but skipped dbt deps, so the project kept running the old dbt_utils version. Use when package changes have no effect. Not for version conflicts that deps itself reports.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran dbt deps --upgrade and broke the pinned dbt-utils version - dbt packages.yml failed with dbt-utils version conflict error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped dbt deps after editing packages.yml: stale dbt_utils
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's parallel test shards collided on ports: how to isolate - agent looped dbt test on the same failing test 12 times with no changes
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Public search query: agent's parallel dbt runs collided on the same temp schema
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a missed downstream ref after an agent renamed a model file, leaving a stale ref that fails compilation. Use when a rename was done by file operation without updating callers. Not for intentional model removals with planned downstream changes.
Fixes the mismatch where an agent dbt debug passes but dbt run fails because debug and run resolved different profile targets. Use when debug success does not predict run success. Not for genuine warehouse errors on the same target.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent mis-mapped source to target columns in generated dbt model, downstream test failed - NoneType object has no attribute 'database'" dbt run
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's dbt debug passed but dbt run failed: profile target mismatch
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes an agent that fetched the wrong dbt Cloud run because a job or run id was off by one digit, leading it to diagnose stale artifacts. Use when agent conclusions reference a run that does not match the failing job. Not for local runs with no Cloud ids involved.
Fixes the stale parse cache case where an agent patched a macro but dbt kept using the previously parsed version. Use when a macro edit has no effect on compiled output. Not for edits to the wrong file, which is a separate cause with the same symptom.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - interview agent wrote questions from a stale job description - the JD updated but the agent's cached copy didn't - agent cache purge used the wrong zone id: purged nothing
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent patched a macro but dbt used the stale parse cache
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent failed to parse dbt cloud run logs: truncated json lines - dbt agent hit dbt cloud api rate limit mid-run and failed, losing its cursor
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent misread the dbt cloud run artifacts url, download failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes the incident and prevents recurrence after an agent ran dbt build against the prod target instead of dev. Use when automation executed with the wrong target. Not for intentional prod runs that simply failed.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's vulnerability scan ran against production instead of staging: target guard - [agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of main - the bump shipped to production without r…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent ran dbt build against the prod target instead of dev
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes an agent whose dbt deps fails inside a sandbox because git SSH credentials for private package repos are not configured. Use when packages.yml references private git repos over SSH. Not for public hub packages, which need no git auth.