agent posted a review on an already-closed PR: race condition
Fixes agents reviewing closed PRs by checking PR state before posting. Use when the agent posts to merged/closed PRs. Not for reviews posted before close.
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Fixes agents reviewing closed PRs by checking PR state before posting. Use when the agent posts to merged/closed PRs. Not for reviews posted before close.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent auto-closed a ticket the customer was still replying to: race condition - auto-close agent closed an active p1 ticket: stale-status race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted a review on an already-closed PR: race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents silently losing comments past GitHub's inline comment limits by batching and summarizing. Use when some agent comments never appear. Not for comments rejected with errors.
Fixes review agents stuck dismissing their own requested-changes by separating reviewer and merger roles. Use when the agent dismisses its own reviews. Not for human dismissals.
Fixes review agents spamming re-review requests on every CI rerun by gating on new commits. Use when the agent re-requests review without new changes. Not for legitimate re-review after pushes.
Fixes review agents reviewing the base branch instead of the PR head by fetching the correct ref. Use when the review discusses code not in the PR. Not for stale-head reviews.
Fixes review agents double-posting identical reviews by adding idempotency. Use when the same review appears twice on a PR. Not for two genuinely different reviews.
Fixes Greptile review timeouts on large PRs by shrinking the review scope. Use when Greptile times out instead of posting a review. Not for Greptile findings disputes.
Fixes Prow/Tide presubmit context failures by retriggering or fixing the failing job. Use when Tide reports a presubmit context failed. Not for GitHub Actions check failures.
Fixes review agents crashing on deleted PR branches by handling 404s gracefully. Use when the branch is deleted mid-review. Not for 404s on the PR itself.
Fixes review agents degrading to plain comments by granting the token write scope or documenting the limitation. Use when the agent cannot submit formal reviews. Not for agents with write access.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - code review agent timed out waiting for CI status checks before posting review - a11y audit agent timed out waiting for spa hydration error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent timed out waiting for reviewdog annotations to post
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - GitHub token expired mid-run while the review agent posted line comments - review agent failed to skip already-approved files after a rebase: wasted budget: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted a review on an already-closed PR: race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - code review agent timed out waiting for CI status checks before posting review - a11y audit agent timed out waiting for spa hydration error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent timed out waiting for reviewdog annotations to post
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - GitHub token expired mid-run while the review agent posted line comments - review agent failed to skip already-approved files after a rebase: wasted budget: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted a review on an already-closed PR: race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Fix for review agents that request changes on draft PRs, which cannot be merged anyway and where early verdicts just create noise. Use when the bot blocks or nags on drafts, reviewers get change requests on work-in-progress code, or draft authors complain about premature reviews. Key triggers: draft PRs receiving form…
Fix for review agents stuck in a loop because new pushes keep arriving mid-review. Use when the agent restarts its pass on every push, reviews never finish, or the queue backs up behind one active PR. Key triggers: rapid pushes, restart-on-push triggers, unbounded reruns on one PR. Not for agents that loop on a static…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: review agent kept re-requesting changes on its own approved diff - review agent failed to dedupe: double-posted its summary comment after a retry: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: review agent failed to terminate its review loop: the PR kept updating:
Problem outcome: unknown
Fix for review agents that lose drafted comments when a spot runner, preemptible VM, or Actions job is killed mid-review. Use when long reviews vanish on preemption, reruns start from zero, or partial reviews never surface anywhere. Key triggers: preemptible runners, spot VMs, long multi-file reviews with in-memory dr…