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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…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - playwright video recording failed: disk space fix - Cypress failed to record the video: disk space fix - [playwright blocked …
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Public search query: playwright video recording failed unable to write in CI artifacts —
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - percy snapshot taken before fonts loaded: how to fix - playwright "locator.fill: Element is not visible" flake when the animation hasn't finished in CI: how to fix
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Public search query: playwright fonts not loaded before screenshot flake in CI — h
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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…
Fixes Playwright hidden-state timeouts where the element never hides in CI. Use when waiting for locator to be hidden times out only in CI. Covers screenshotting the actual state, finding the condition that should hide the element, and waiting on the underlying cause. Not for elements hidden everywhere.
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - axe-playwright injectaxe failed page closed crash error - agent failed to scrape cloudflare docs: page rendered client-side only
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Public search query: playwright Navigation failed because page crashed only in CI —
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Debugs the Cypress automation client disconnected flake in CI. Use when runs intermittently die with The automation client disconnected. Covers rerunning with debug logging, checking container memory pressure, disabling the GPU, and pinning the browser version. Not for consistent disconnects on a single spec.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - AWS "InvalidClientTokenId" in automation: credential chain debugging - Debugging browser automation that passes locally but flakes in CI: working checklist
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Public search query: cypress The automation client disconnected flake in CI — how to debug
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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.
Fixes Node heap exhaustion during jest runs in CI. Use when the run dies with FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit or Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory. Covers raising the heap with NODE_OPTIONS, cutting worker memory pressure, and finding the leak with open-handle and heap logging. Not for out-of-memory in…
Fixes agents whose Playwright crawl of an authorized web app dies halfway, losing the session and the crawl frontier. Use when a crawl starts fine and then fails with session errors, leaving no usable crawl state. Only for web apps you are engaged to test.
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
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Public search query: playwright Target crashed mid-suite in CI — how to debug the bro
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's playwright browser crashed mid-suite: how to recover the run - playwright browser context crashed mid-scrape and agent lost session state
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Public search query: playwright trace.zip corrupted after browser crash: how to open
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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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - test.only" committed by accident and CI failed silently green with 200 tests skipped: how to detect it - [agent merged a green upgrade PR that only passed because the test job was skipped - the workf…
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Public search query: playwright test.describe.skip only in CI: flaky skip detection
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