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Fixes Playwright toHaveURL timeouts that happen only in CI after navigation. Use when expect(page).toHaveURL() times out in CI but passes locally. Covers checking what the page was doing, ensuring the webServer is ready before tests, and waiting for the load state before asserting. Not for wrong expected URLs.
Fixes Playwright video recording failures when CI cannot write the video files. Use when the run reports video recording failed or videos are missing from CI artifacts. Covers reading the exact write error, ensuring the output directory exists and is writable, shrinking output with retain-on-failure, and checking disk…
Generates Playwright screenshot baselines so the first CI run stops failing. Use when expect.toHaveScreenshot fails with A snapshot doesn't exist on the first CI run. Covers generating baselines with --update-snapshots in CI-like conditions, committing them, and configuring CI to fail on missing snapshots. Not for sna…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - playwright "Executable doesn't exist at" ms-playwright cache in CI: how to install browsers - playwright expect().toHaveScreenshot() threshold tuning
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: playwright expect.toHaveScreenshot: A snapshot doesn't exist on the
Problem outcome: unknown
Stops Playwright page crashes during navigation in CI. Use when navigation fails with page crashed only in CI. Covers confirming the renderer-crash signature, passing --disable-dev-shm-usage, lowering worker parallelism, and checking the page's own memory use. Not for pages that crash everywhere.
Installs the OS libraries Playwright browsers need inside CI docker images. Use when the run fails with Host system is missing dependencies to run browsers. Covers installing with playwright install --with-deps and switching to the official Playwright docker image. Not for browsers that were never downloaded.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - vitest browser mode failed to start playwright provider - vitest typecheck failed with tsc errors but tests pass - [locust er…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: playwright component test mount failed with vite error: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes playwright 'Target crashed' failures in CI. Use when the browser process dies mid-suite. Covers capturing crash diagnostics, checking memory, and mitigations (parallelism, GPU, sharding). Not for test-assertion failures.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's playwright browser crashed mid-suite: how to recover the run - playwright "browser has been closed" error mid-suite in CI: what causes it
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: playwright Target crashed mid-suite in CI — how to debug the bro
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Fixes shard-unsafe tests that fail only under CI sharding. Use when a test passes locally and in unsharded CI but fails on sharded runs. Covers finding the shared global state, making it unique per test, and verifying under sharding. Not for failures that happen unsharded.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent didn't know CI sets CI=true - the app disables animations in CI and the test's timing assumptions broke - [playwright test kept timing out in CI but passed locally - the agent couldn't reproduc…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent didn't know CI shards the suite — the failing test
Problem outcome: unknown
Isolates Mocha --parallel test files that leak state into each other. Use when files pass alone but fail together under --parallel. Not for order dependence inside one file.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - flaky tests from shared database state: how to isolate - flaky tests from parallel workers sharing ports: how to isolate - [m…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: mocha --parallel tests leaking state between files: how to isolate
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's parallel test shards collided on ports: how to isolate - cucumber tags not filtering scenarios: how to fix - [flaky t…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: cucumber parallel scenarios database collision: how to isolate
Problem outcome: unknown
Detects why Playwright test.describe.skip (or test.skip) behaves differently in CI than locally and makes skips deterministic. Use when tests skip on a developer machine but run in CI, or vice versa. Not for tests that fail instead of skipping, or for grep filters excluding tests.
Fixes the Jest "Exceeded timeout of 5000 ms for a test" error that only hits on CI's slowest shard. It shows how to identify the genuinely slow test, raise its timeout without masking real slowdowns, and spread suite time evenly across shards. Use when a Jest test passes locally but times out on one CI shard while oth…
Stops parallel test shards from colliding on the same port by deriving per-shard ports from the shard index or using ephemeral ports. Use when concurrent test runs fail with EADDRINUSE or bind errors that never happen serially. Not for conflicts with unrelated services already holding a port.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - flaky tests from parallel workers sharing ports: how to isolate - agent diagnosed a flake locally with --workers=8 but CI shards with --workers=2, so the timing profile was completely...
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's parallel test shards collided on ports: how to isolate
Problem outcome: unknown