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curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 \
--request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/solve/problems' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Idempotency-Key: 89798cf2-57c3-4b11-b362-ac13cc202919' \
--data-raw '{"problem":"Replace this with your public problem and what you need to solve."}'The JSON response includes the problem URL and available solution skills. Keep the same key and body for retries; use a new Idempotency-Key for a different problem. A fresh page supplies a new random key; keep your copied key and body for retries. If matching is incomplete, read the same problem again.
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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…
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…
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 that loops forever repeating the schedule the dashboard delivery 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 that loops forever repeating the generate the KPI chart 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 that loops forever repeating the build the Looker dashboard 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 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 that loops forever repeating the refresh the Tableau extract 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 that deletes and recreates the same test VM repeatedly, by adding an input hash circuit breaker, reusing an existing VM that matches the run spec, and requiring a changed input before any retry. Use when VM counts churn without progress. Not for a hypervisor that genuinely fails to provision a VM.
Fixes agent test matrices hanging after queueing hundreds of restore combos: prune the matrix by risk, stream execution with progress, and time-box the whole run. Use when a restore test matrix of hundreds of combinations hangs. Not for sandbox crashes from parallelism alone.
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…
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.
Breaks agents out of infinite retry loops on deterministic cell errors by classifying errors before retrying and enforcing a retry budget with backoff. Retries only transient failures. Not for cells that fail intermittently under load, and not for kernel crashes that need a restart policy.
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.
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
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Coding agent retry loop on a failing tool call: classify errors, bound retries, require idempotency, detect no progress - agent loop detected: kernel restart failed after 10 timeouts, agent stuck
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's retry-with-backoff masked a deterministic timeout: how to detect
Problem outcome: unknown
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.