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Handles a triage run failing when the mailbox search API returns empty results mid-campaign, by distinguishing a true empty result from a failed or malformed query. Use when search-based sweeps intermittently return zero results for mail known to exist. Not for mailboxes that genuinely contain no matching mail.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - cargo "failed to download" in CI: network and registry debugging - how to write a custom Semgrep rule - [Kubernetes "failed t…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: semgrep secrets: rule registry fetch failed in ci
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes Playwright video recording failures when CI cannot write the video files. Use when the run reports video recording failed or videos are missing from CI artifacts. Covers reading the exact write error, ensuring the output directory exists and is writable, shrinking output with retain-on-failure, and checking disk…
Diagnoses the surefire forked VM death in CI and finds the real cause. Use when the build fails with The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye. Covers inspecting surefire reports, checking fork heap settings, hunting System.exit calls, and rerunning a single fork with debug output. Not for normal test a…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent's severity override was lost when the finding was re-imported - the ticket reopened at critical - agent's CVE prioritization ignored EPSS: severity-only ranking fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent ran trivy with --severity HIGH,CRITICAL and reported zero findin
Problem outcome: unknown
Use when a scan agent manages .trivyignore and the team's hand-curated suppressions disappeared. Covers restoring the curated file, switching the agent to append-only output, and locking the file against future overwrites. Not for trivy scan failures or for writing the initial ignore list.
Diagnoses trivy SARIF uploads that vanish in GitHub code scanning: the upload may have targeted a non-default branch, or trivy's rule IDs dedupe against existing alerts. Covers checking the upload logs, confirming the branch, and inspecting rule IDs in the SARIF. Use when code scanning shows nothing the CLI found. Not…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - GitHub repo security settings checklist - security scanner agent's SARIF report failed to parse: finding triage stalled - [ag…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: trivy --format sarif uploaded to GitHub code scanning showed no new aler
Problem outcome: unknown
Works around govulncheck refusing cgo-built binaries: stripped or cgo link modes can drop the build info govulncheck needs. Covers checking with go version -m, rebuilding with build info intact, and falling back to scanning the module source. Use when govulncheck rejects a cgo binary. Not for pure-Go binaries or modul…
Fixes cargo-deny refusing to fetch the RustSec advisory database over signature verification: distinguishing stale signing keys from proxy-tampered fetches, updating cargo-deny, and trusting the corporate CA for the git fetch. Use when the advisory DB fetch fails on signature verification. Not for cargo-deny policy vi…
Diagnoses npm audit disagreeing between local and CI: the two runs query different registries (or different metadata snapshots), so advisory data differs. Covers comparing registry configs, clearing stale caches, and pinning both sides to the same registry. Use when local and CI audit counts diverge. Not for lockfile …
Explains why osv-scanner --recursive comes back empty on yarn v4 (berry) monorepos: the v4 lockfile format is not parsed, so the scan silently covers nothing. Covers scanning package.json manifests explicitly and confirming parsed counts. Use when osv-scanner finds nothing in a yarn berry repo. Not for genuinely clean…
Fixes snyk silently skipping a subdirectory .snyk policy file: snyk loads policy from the scanned project directory, not the repo root, so monorepo scans need to run per project or use --policy-path. Covers locating stray policy files and verifying the ignore took effect. Use when ignores in a subdirectory .snyk never…
Migrates grype ignore rules from the silently-ignored v1 syntax to the v2 schema: the structured ignore list with vulnerability, package, and fix-state fields, plus how to verify a suppression actually applied. Use when grype ignore rules have no effect. Not for grype DB or scan-target problems.
Explains what grype's --only-fixed actually filters: records where the vulnerability database has fix data, which is not the same as fixes you can install, and not a promise about records with unknown fix state. Covers refreshing the DB and verifying fixes against the distro tracker. Use when --only-fixed output still…
Corrects the dangerous misreading of empty trivy results on Windows container images: trivy analyzes Linux package metadata it cannot find on Windows, so zero findings means unscanned, not clean. Covers marking coverage honestly and adding Windows-capable scanning. Use when trivy reports nothing on windows/amd64 image…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the SBOM missed transitive dependencies - the agent scanned the SBOM and declared the image clean, but trivy on the... - agent's pdf merger broke with error on scanned image pdfs
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: trivy on a windows/amd64 image silently scanned nothing - the agent's
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovers from trivy layer-not-found failures caused by registry garbage collection deleting blobs mid-scan: confirming the pruned blobs, re-pushing the image so the manifest resolves, and scheduling GC away from scan windows. Use when a previously scannable image suddenly fails with layer not found. Not for network ti…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - trivy scan fails with "failed to analyze layer: unexpected EOF" mid-pull on a flaky registry - trivy scan fails with "failed to get image manifest: manifest unknown" on a multi-arch image
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: trivy: failed to analyze layer: layer not found after the registry GC p
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes trivy k8s cluster scans that fail to build a Kubernetes client for lack of credentials: checking the kubeconfig context, creating a dedicated ServiceAccount with a read-only ClusterRole, and binding it. Use when trivy k8s fails with the credentials error inside a cluster or from CI. Not for scanner timeouts or i…