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Fix this in Enrichment agent by check the domain resolution result first, mark domains that do not resolve as dead after one confirmation, skip them in all later steps, and report the dead list instead of retrying it. Use when this exact error blocks an enrichment run, import or sync. Not for a platform outage notice …
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: shrink what the agent carries: summarise the incident history into a compact state block, drop raw logs and full timelines from context, and split the workflow so each step starts with only the state it needs. Use when an automated status page run fails with this patt…
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: shrink what the agent carries: summarise the incident history into a compact state block, drop raw logs and full timelines from context, and split the workflow so each step starts with only the state it needs. Use when an automated status page run fails with this patt…
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: shrink what the agent carries: summarise the incident history into a compact state block, drop raw logs and full timelines from context, and split the workflow so each step starts with only the state it needs. Use when an automated status page run fails with this patt…
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: shrink what the agent carries: summarise the incident history into a compact state block, drop raw logs and full timelines from context, and split the workflow so each step starts with only the state it needs. Use when an automated status page run fails with this patt…
Fixes an agent workflow failure behind this query: shrink what the agent carries: summarise the incident history into a compact state block, drop raw logs and full timelines from context, and split the workflow so each step starts with only the state it needs. Use when an automated status page run fails with this patt…
Fixes an agent that cannot connect to the ticketing API during the nightly sweep due to a DNS failure by adding resolution checks, retry with backoff, and endpoint health reporting. Use when connection errors name DNS or name resolution. Not for API authentication failures after a successful connection.
For teams building setup-check agents. Use when DNS waits time out. Not for wrong-record or delegation issues.
Fixes onboarding agents that report DNS checks complete while they are still pending, by requiring independent tool evidence for every checklist item. Not for DNS checks that genuinely fail, and not for agents misreporting non-DNS steps.
Fixes agent test selectors that match too broadly for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent's --select ran the whole suite instead of one test. Not for selectors that match nothing.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky test database - the suite now takes twice as long - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent marked an OOM-killed test as a code regression - the container hit its memory limit, not a bug - [test-healing agent marked a real regression as flaky - the test failed 3 times in a row but wit…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent marked an OOM-killed test as a code regression — the c
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent called it flaky because the error differed per run - it was actually locale-dependent date formatting - [the agent said "flake" because the error changed every run, but it was actually an unini…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
Problem outcome: unknown
Replaces an agent's habit of skipping flaky test files with a real quarantine policy: labeled, owned, time-boxed, and still running in a separate lane. Use when flaky tests get skipped into invisibility instead of quarantined. Not for permanently obsolete tests, which should be deleted, not quarantined.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent quarantined every test in the file that failed instead of finding the one broken test polluting the rest - [agent added cleanup to the victim test instead of the polluter - the leak still hi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: re-running the same failing test without code changes - agent's fix broke 5 other tests - it changed a shared fixture without understanding the blast radius
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent applied the same fix to every failing test without diagnosing: r
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent posted a PR titled "bump deps" with zero context after the release-notes fetch timed out - agent stripe webhook handler timed out after 10s: stripe disabled the endpoint
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's flake reproduction timed out after N retries: exponential re
Problem outcome: unknown
Diagnoses npm EAI_AGAIN DNS failures so a CI install can reach the registry. Use it when installs fail resolving the registry hostname in CI but work elsewhere. Key trigger: EAI_AGAIN with the registry hostname in the log. Not for HTTP 500s or auth failures once DNS resolves.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent opened the upgrade PR against main but the package's tests only ran under the agent's branch config - CI never... - [agent marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leak…
Problem outcome: unknown