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Fixes agent log parsers missing failures in rotated backup logs: collect across rotation boundaries, read compressed archives, and anchor searches to run windows. Use when an agent misses failures that rotated out of the current log. Not for multiline record parsing within one file.
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
Fixes agent repairs applied to the wrong target for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent fixed staging but production still fails. Not for genuine environment differences in the fix itself.
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
Finds the async leak behind jest's Cannot log after tests are done flake in CI. Use when CI intermittently warns that logging happened after tests finished. Covers rerunning with --detectOpenHandles, locating the leaking timer or socket, and awaiting or cancelling the async work. Not for console noise during 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 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 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
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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.
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…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent blamed test B for the failure — test A leaked an unhandled
Problem outcome: unknown
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
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
Responds to an API key leaked into test logs with immediate rotation, log scrubbing, and a guardrail that keeps secrets out of logs going forward. Use when a test run prints a credential for a dashboard, service, or API. Not for fake or example credentials, which still get scrubbed from logs but do not need rotation.