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Bound the agent's test run before raising its timeout: select the changed models and their tests instead of the whole project, build with a state selection or a limited target sample for the test pass, and split the run so model builds and tests report separately. Use when an agent whose dbt test run times out on a la…
Bound the agent's test run before raising its timeout: select the changed models and their tests instead of the whole project, build with a state selection or a limited target sample for the test pass, and split the run so model builds and tests report separately. Use when an agent whose dbt test run times out on a la…
Pace the agent's dbt Cloud API usage as a client of a shared service: batch status polls, cache job definitions, and spread test submissions instead of firing them together when a workflow fans out. Use when an agent hitting the dbt Cloud API limit during test execution. Not for a local dbt Core test run, where no clo…
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.
Fixes the triage problem where an agent cannot tell which of several failing tests is the root cause and which are downstream symptoms. Use when a build reports many test failures at once. Not for a single failing test.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent couldn't tell which side of a go.sum conflict was newer, so it ran go mod tidy and committed the result blind - [agent reverted a security upgrade because tests failed and never re-attempted - …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent couldn't tell which of 5 failing tests was the root cause
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent couldn't tell which side of a go.sum conflict was newer, so it ran go mod tidy and committed the result blind - [agent reverted a security upgrade because tests failed and never re-attempted - …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent couldn't tell which of 5 failing tests was the root cause
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes agent test selectors that match too broadly for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent's --select ran the whole suite instead of one test. Not for selectors that match nothing.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the full suite instead of the affected tests: how to scope - agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining: policy fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent test selector ran the entire suite instead of the failing test
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent fixed the symptom in CI config but the test still fails on developers' machines - agent couldn't reproduce a failure because CI uses a different timezone and the test parsed a local date
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Public search query: agent misread the test failure: fixed staging, prod still broken
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent blamed test B for the failure - test A leaked an unhandled timer that fired during test B - [agent blamed the wrong test because the error surfaced in the consumer, not the polluter two tests e…
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Public search query: agent blamed test B for the failure — test A leaked an unhandled
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent quarantined a test whose only failure came from the agent's own broken setup script - agent quarantined tests that failed only because its own prior run left the database dirty
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent quarantined a test whose only failure came from the agent's own
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI - the bug was a rendering difference in the older version - [agent treated 2.0.0-rc.1 as newer than 2.0.0 - it auto-merged a release candidate to…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI — the
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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
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent quarantined every test in the file that failed instead of finding the one broken test polluting the rest - [agent added cleanup to the victim test instead of the polluter - the leak still hi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
Problem outcome: unknown
Reproduces merge-queue-only failures by replicating merge-queue conditions: rebased onto the target, with sibling changes and realistic load. Use when an agent cannot reproduce a failure locally because it only happens in the merge queue. Not for failures that reproduce on a plain branch run, which are ordinary bugs, …