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Fixes the Search check agent problem where Browser automation failed on dashboard page while checking search results by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in the h…
Fixes the Search check agent problem where Agent failed to check help center search results for an error query - timeout by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in t…
Repairs agent --upgrade runs that broke pinned dbt packages for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when dbt deps --upgrade moved packages off their pins. Not for registry outages or git auth issues.
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
Fixes: agent pinned an old axe version: missed rules the ci gate caught Applies when your scan flags this exact rule. Not for manual-only issues the rule does not report.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cargo update hit one "failed to download" and never retried, so it pinned the old version permanently - agent broke the audit ruleset while patching a policy threshold
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent pinned an old axe version: missed rules the ci gate caught
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI - the bug was a rendering difference in the older version - [agent treated 2.0.0-rc.1 as newer than 2.0.0 - it auto-merged a release candidate to…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI — the
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's canary analysis passed but users still saw errors: how to check canary coverage - agent's fix passed locally but introduced a new race in CI - it assumed single-threaded execution
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's coverage gate passed but missed untested branches it introduced
Problem outcome: unknown
Use when a dependabot security PR that is really a major bump got auto-merged and broke things. Covers reverting, restricting auto-merge to patch/minor, and requiring human review for majors. Not for patch-level security bumps that merge cleanly.
Restores e2e coverage for dependency bumps on critical paths. Use it when a bump skipped e2e and broke a user-facing flow in production. Key trigger: the broken flow touches code paths the dependency serves, and e2e was not in the PR checks. Not for: a bump with no user-facing surface, where unit tests suffice.
Fixes a false-green test run where the sandbox tested a vendored copy instead of the bump. Use it when the install fell back to vendored code and the tests validated the old version. Key trigger: the tested version does not match the bumped version. Not for: genuinely passing tests on the new version, which need no fi…
Use when a fix PR touched the wrong dependency scope and the finding survives. Covers mapping findings to the exact manifest path, reverting the wrong bump, and gating security PRs on rescan clearance. Not for version-resolution failures.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent bumped a devDependency into the published package because the dep was misclassified - the tarball now ships jest - [agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of main - the …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent's remediation PR bumped the devDependency instead of the prod
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent merged two upgrade PRs out of order - the older major overwrote the newer minor and CI broke - [renovate automerge kept flip-flopping two PRs: A needed B>=2 but B needed A<3, and the agent merg…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent auto-merged a major upgrade on a Friday night — the rollba
Problem outcome: unknown
Tightens a too-loose engines field so CI installs a supported Node. Use it when CI installed Node 16 and the new dependency requires Node 18. Key trigger: the engines range admits a Node version the dependency dropped. Not for: a genuinely supported older Node failing for other reasons, like a missing system library.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's alembic version is newer than the one that wrote the existing revisions - autogenerate produces different... - [agent saw waitForTimeout pass locally and fail in CI - it didn't know the CI ru…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI — the
Problem outcome: unknown
Use when an agent ran npm audit fix --force unattended and the resulting PR is too big to review. Covers reverting, replacing --force with targeted fixes, and gating security PRs on blast-radius limits. Not for a single failing npm install or for manual audit-fix workflows.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent summarized a changelog from a stale cached copy; the "breaking changes" it listed were from two majors ago - docs agent hallucinated changelog entry, release notes broken
Problem outcome: unknown