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Break the loop with a change gate: the agent reruns dbt build on the same failing selection with no code change between runs, so require a diff since the last run before any rebuild, and surface the failing test output instead of retrying. Use when an agent workflow that builds and tests dbt models and retries on fail…
Break the loop with a state rule, not a bigger retry budget: the agent must record the failing check, the input hash, and the attempted fix, and must stop and escalate when the same check fails twice with the same input and no intervening change. Use when an agent re-running the same failed data quality check in a loo…
Cap retries with backoff and a success check the loop actually believes: the upload loop spun because it retried on any outcome, including success responses it failed to recognise, or permanent errors no retry can fix. Use when an agent uploading artifacts in an automated pipeline. Not for an upload that legitimately …
Break the loop with a state rule, not a bigger retry budget: the agent must record the failing check, the input hash, and the attempted fix, and must stop and escalate when the same check fails twice with the same input and no intervening change. Use when an agent re-running the same failed data quality check in a loo…
Give the agent a retry ledger: every dbt test retry must record the test, the failure output, and the change made since the last attempt, and the loop must terminate after a small fixed number of attempts per test with a failure summary. Use when an agent retrying a failed dbt test in an infinite loop. Not for a retry…
Fixes an agent loop where the agent keeps repeating the same step to generate the SOC 2 evidence pack and fails, by adding progress checks, attempt limits and a changed strategy after repeated identical calls. Use when a run repeats one step without progress. Not for a single failed attempt that a normal retry fixes.
Fixes an agent that loops forever repeating the pull Metabase query results step by adding progress detection, a step budget and a state check before each retry. Use when run logs show the same step and the same tool call repeating without progress. Not for a legitimate long build whose steps keep changing.
Fixes an agent loop where the agent keeps repeating the same step to export the entitlement report and fails, by adding progress checks, attempt limits and a changed strategy after repeated identical calls. Use when a run repeats one step without progress. Not for a single failed attempt that a normal retry fixes.
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.
Stops an agent that keeps relaunching a failed Dagster asset materialization without changing anything, covering failure classification, a retry budget with state checks, and fixing deterministic causes before any relaunch. Use when run history shows repeated identical failures. Not for a flaky external dependency wit…
Fixes an agent stuck looping dbt test on the same failing test many times without changing anything between runs. Use when automation repeats identical test invocations. Not for a single manual rerun to confirm flakiness.
Adds exponential backoff and circuit breaking to agents repeating failed policy checks. Use when an agent retries a failing policy check in a tight loop. Not for checks that fail once and succeed on retry.
Fixes agent retry loops hammering dbt builds for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent re-ran full builds repeatedly on a transient error. Not for legitimate dbt retry of failed nodes.
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.
Repairs agent test-disabling shortcuts for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent disabled or deleted a failing test rather than fixing the cause. Not for deliberately removed obsolete tests.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky test database - the suite now takes twice as long - [agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky test database …
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Public search query: agent disabled the failing test instead of fixing the data
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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 added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky test database - the suite now takes twice as long - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
Problem outcome: unknown
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…
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Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
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Detects when retry-with-backoff is masking a deterministic timeout by adding a fixed-delay control run and comparing failure timing across attempts. Use when retries always fail at the same elapsed time. Not for genuine flakes with varying failure times, where backoff retries are appropriate.
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.
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