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Fixes API rate limit hit mid-workflow when agent tried to compare a negotiated clause against the playbook position error failed quota by applying the specific fix in the steps and proving it on one clause task run first. Use when an agent workflow for clause lookup, drafting or review is blocked by this failure. Not …
Release the repo lock before fetching: the agent failed to parse Aim query results because the underlying fetch hit the locked repo, so coordinate reads with the writing process, or read from a snapshot copy of the repo for analysis. Use when an agent workflow analysing Aim runs while training jobs write to the same r…
Fixes review agents losing state on mid-review rebases by keying state to the commit SHA. Use when a rebase wipes the agent's progress. Not for force-pushes without rebase.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent lost its drafted comments when the runner was preempted: persistence: how to fix - [agent auto-closed an upgrade PR as "stale" while a human was mid-review, then reopened an identical on…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent lost review state when the PR was rebased mid-review
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes 'this pull request cannot be automatically merged' rebase conflicts by rebasing onto the updated base. Use when the PR page reports a rebase conflict. Not for merge commits the team forbids.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - merge queue failed: this pull request cannot be added: checks are still pending: how to fix - draft pull requests cannot be merged error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: this pull request cannot be automatically merged: rebase conflict
Problem outcome: unknown
Repairs agent --upgrade runs that broke pinned dbt packages for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when dbt deps --upgrade moved packages off their pins. Not for registry outages or git auth issues.
Fixes: agent remediation conflicted with a teammate concurrent edits Applies when your scan flags this exact rule. Not for manual-only issues the rule does not report.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent edited package.json by hand and forgot the lockfile; CI failed and it blamed the registry - pnpm error ERR_PNPM_OUTDATED_LOCKFILE after node version switch
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: pnpm 'ERR_PNPM_OUTDATED_LOCKFILE' after the agent edited package.json by hand
Problem outcome: unknown
Restores a deleted package-lock.json so npm ci can run again. Use it when an agent or operator deleted the lockfile and npm ci fails on its absence. Key trigger: npm ci errors about a missing lockfile while package.json is intact. Not for lockfiles that exist but are corrupt or out of sync; those need a different repa…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent merged a green upgrade PR that only passed because the test job was skipped - the workflow's path filter... - [agent bumped django 4.2 to 5.0, then djangorestframework demanded django<5, so it …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped e2e on a dependency bump — the checkout flow broke in
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version - the build failed on 'version X has been yanked' - agent failed to detect the policy violation: cached the old policy version
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's rollback PR failed — the old version had been yank
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent bumped a devDependency into the published package because the dep was misclassified - the tarball now ships jest - [agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of main - the …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent's remediation PR bumped the devDependency instead of the prod
Problem outcome: unknown
Resolves a bun.lock merge conflict without regenerating the whole file. Use it when a conflicted lockfile was regenerated and produced hundreds of unrelated changes. Key trigger: the lockfile diff dwarfs the actual dependency change. Not for: an intentionally regenerated lockfile, like after a bun major upgrade, where…
Fixes a docs agent whose generated-docs commit is rejected by branch protection. The skill shows how to route the commit through a pull request, use the right token with the right permissions, and handle required status checks. It gives the PR-based flow for agent-generated docs.
Retargets an upgrade PR that was opened against the wrong branch. Use it when a dependency bump landed on the release branch instead of main and skipped normal review. Key trigger: the PR base is the release branch while the change belongs on main. Not for: deliberate hotfix bumps, which correctly target the release b…
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's upgrade schedule fired during the code freeze - 12 PRs opened agains…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of ma
Problem outcome: unknown
Repairs upgrade PRs merged out of order so the newer minor wins. Use it when an older major overwrote a newer minor and CI broke. Key trigger: the lockfile shows the older major where the newer minor used to be, after two upgrade PRs merged in the wrong order. Not for: a single bad bump, which is a version problem, no…