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Fixes parallel restore tests crashing the sandbox: cap concurrency from measured sandbox capacity, isolate tests per environment, and queue excess work. Use when parallel agent restore tests overload their sandbox. Not for a single test crashing a VM from inside.
Retries intermittent pytest failures with the pytest-rerunfailures plugin. Use when a test fails randomly and passes on retry, via the flaky marker or the --reruns flag. Not for consistently failing tests.
Fixes the blind spot after an agent disabled store_failures on tests, so failing rows were no longer captured and failures became undebuggable. Use when tests fail but no failures table exists to inspect. Not for environments where failures are captured by a different system on purpose.
Diagnoses a Prefect task run reported as crashed with an infrastructure timeout, where the process or container running the task died or never reported back. Use when runs show crashed rather than failed. Not for a task that raised a Python exception and reported a normal failure.
Diagnoses a task killed by SIGKILL under the LocalExecutor, which almost always means the host OOM killer, and shows how to prove it and size the task or the box. Use when a task dies with no Python traceback. Not for application errors that raise an exception you can read.
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.
Finds the shared file handle behind the I/O operation on closed file flake in parallel pytest runs. Use when the error appears intermittently with xdist. Covers finding module-level or module-scoped file handles, giving each test its own file via tmp_path, and rerunning in parallel. Not for single-process occurrences.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - pytest "DID NOT RAISE" flaky: expected exception raised only sometimes under parallel xdist - pytest "sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: database is locked" in parallel CI runs: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: pytest ValueError: I/O operation on closed file flake under parallel
Problem outcome: unknown
Resolves the pluggy PluginValidationError INTERNALERROR after a pytest plugin upgrade. Use when pytest dies at startup with pluggy.manager.PluginValidationError following an upgrade. Covers identifying the offending plugin with --trace-config, checking the pytest/pluggy/plugin version trio, and pinning or upgrading to…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - pluggy.manager.PluginValidationError: unknown hook 'pytest_namespace' in plugin - pytest "async def functions are not natively supported" after upgrading pytest-asyncio: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: pytest INTERNALERROR pluggy.manager.PluginValidationError after a plugin
Problem outcome: unknown
Raises the file-descriptor limit for pytest-xdist workers in CI. Use when parallel runs fail with OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files. Covers confirming the limit, raising it with ulimit in the CI step, reducing worker count, and checking for leaked handles. Not for the same error without xdist.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - [ChromaDB long-running service hits OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files](/skills/skl_XaA1EB4fzVrm70QFYi8PKA/versions/skv_-GEu-pkDVKe-fo9PuJ0uWg) - workerd error: Too many open files, socket pool exhausted
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: pytest OSError: [Errno 24] Too many open files under xdist
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.
Diagnoses the surefire forked VM death in CI and finds the real cause. Use when the build fails with The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye. Covers inspecting surefire reports, checking fork heap settings, hunting System.exit calls, and rerunning a single fork with debug output. Not for normal test a…
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
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - pytest "async def functions are not natively supported" after upgrading pytest-asyncio: how to fix - pytest asyncio test skipped: anyio plugin setup
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: pytest asyncio_mode=auto not picking up async tests: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Investigates Prefect flow runs that crash without logs: infrastructure kills, worker deaths, and log shipping gaps. Use when a flow run shows crashed and the log stream is empty. Not for flow runs with logs showing an error.
Covers screenshot agents timing out on locale page sets: shard across workers with per-page timeouts. Use it when Playwright runs die partway. Not for single-page issues.