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curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 \
--request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/solve/problems' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Idempotency-Key: 54d6c3ae-f016-4b7c-85c3-a533124158a1' \
--data-raw '{"problem":"Replace this with your public problem and what you need to solve."}'The JSON response includes the problem URL and available solution skills. Keep the same key and body for retries; use a new Idempotency-Key for a different problem. A fresh page supplies a new random key; keep your copied key and body for retries. If matching is incomplete, read the same problem again.
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Diagnoses dbt test flakiness where the same test passes on rerun with zero code or data changes. Use when a test flips between pass and fail across identical runs. Not for tests that fail consistently on real bad data.
Finds the polluting test behind order-dependent failures that only appear in the full pytest suite. Use when a test passes alone but fails in the full run. Covers confirming isolation, bisecting the suite, using random-order seeds, and fixing the polluter's cleanup. Not for failures that reproduce alone.
Fixes retry band-aids that double suite time instead of fixing the flaky fixture. Use when test-level retries were added over an unstable test database. Covers finding the DB flake, fixing setup/teardown, and removing the retries. Not for retries around genuinely external services.
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.
Enforces single-variable discipline on flaky-test bisection so an agent cannot change two things at once and declare the result inconclusive-proof. Use when bisect results are muddy because the agent varied multiple factors per run. Not for exploratory debugging where the goal is a quick hypothesis, not a controlled e…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent classified a DNS outage in CI as a flaky test - the whole job lost network for 40 seconds - agent ran go get -u ./... and upgraded 40 modules at once; the bisect took two days
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's flaky-test bisect changed two variables at once: how to control
Problem outcome: unknown
Bounds a flake-reproduction loop with an explicit retry budget: capped attempts, exponential backoff with a ceiling, and automatic escalation to quarantine when the budget is exhausted. Use when an agent burns hours retrying a reproduction that never converges. Not for deterministic failures, which should fail fast on…
Fixes nondeterministic eval comparisons by pinning random seeds, running each variant multiple times, and comparing distributions instead of single runs. Use when an agent's A/B eval conclusions flip between runs or seeds differ across compared runs. Not for deterministic unit-test flakes, which are a test-isolation p…
Fixes main-only failures mislabeled as flaky. Use when a test fails on main but PRs never exercise it. Covers confirming the coverage gap, bisecting the merge range, and fixing the regression. Not for tests that fail on PRs too.
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
Public search query: agent labeled a test flaky that only fails on main — PRs never ru
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes retry band-aids that double suite time instead of fixing the flaky fixture. Use when test-level retries were added over an unstable test database. Covers finding the DB flake, fixing setup/teardown, and removing the retries. Not for retries around genuinely external services.
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
Fixes misdiagnosed flakiness that is actually locale-dependent behavior. Use when a test fails differently on different runs or machines with varying error text. Covers checking locale settings, pinning the locale in test setup, and treating varying errors as an environment clue rather than flakiness. Not for genuinel…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent said "flake" because the error changed every run, but it was actually an uninitialized random seed - [agent fixed a flaky test by adding cleanup, but the leak was in a different test that r…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes failed bisection when the agent uses a different random seed or ordering than CI. Use when an order-dependent failure never reproduces in the agent's bisection. Covers matching CI's seed and ordering exactly, capturing the seed from the failing run, and re-running the bisect under identical conditions. Not for s…
Fixes test failures caused by the app behaving differently when CI=true is set. Use when a test passes locally but fails on CI and the app changes behavior under CI. Covers auditing CI-env-dependent code paths, making tests env-aware, and documenting the CI=true contract. Not for genuine timing flakes.
Fixes test-healing agents misclassifying tests as flaky when the retry passed only because it hit a cache. Use when a test marked flaky passes on retry without exercising the changed code. Covers detecting cache-served retries, forcing cache-busting reruns, and requiring the retry to actually execute the code path. No…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent closed a failing test as "flaky" because it passed on retry, but the retry ran with a warm cache - [test-healing agent marked a real regression as flaky - the test failed 3 times in a row but w…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: test-healing agent marked a passing-on-retry test as flaky — the retry
Problem outcome: unknown