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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…
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
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent misread the test failure: fixed staging, prod still broken
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Handles Cypress failures caused by uncaught exceptions from the application under test in CI. Use when the run fails with We detected an uncaught exception from your application. Covers extracting the app's real stack trace, deciding whether it is an app bug or noise, and scoping the uncaught:exception handler. Not fo…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent marked an OOM-killed test as a code regression - the container hit its memory limit, not a bug - [test-healing agent marked a real regression as flaky - the test failed 3 times in a row but wit…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent marked an OOM-killed test as a code regression — the c
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes misattributed failures when one test leaks a timer that fires during another test. Use when test B fails but the fault originates in test A. Covers finding the leaked timer, fixing cleanup in the polluter, and adding leak detection. Not for genuine test B bugs.
Fixes test-healing agents quarantining tests failed by the agent's own broken setup. Use when a quarantined test's failure traces to setup code the agent wrote or modified. Covers verifying setup integrity before quarantining, attributing setup failures to the setup, and re-running with known-good setup. Not for tests…
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
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes test-healing agents editing production code to satisfy a test when the test was actually correct. Use when a heal changed non-test code and the change looks suspicious. Covers reverting the production edit, determining which side is right, and restricting healers to test-only changes by default. Not for cases wh…
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
Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
Problem outcome: unknown
Adds a review gate that stops an agent from applying one blanket fix to every failing test without diagnosing each failure. Use when a healing patch touches many tests with the same change and no per-test rationale. Not for genuinely shared root causes, which get one fix plus a written diagnosis linking it to each fai…