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Fixes the GitHub API failure rate limit hit collecting branch protection evidence across 300 repos by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one small scope first, then rerunning and reconciling counts. Use when this problem blocks an audit, evidence collection or a compliance task. Not for platform wid…
Fixes branch protection API returns empty in the work covered by this query by taking the specific step below first. Use when this exact failure blocks collection, review, or fulfilment. Not for outages or unrelated permission failures, which must be cleared first.
Fixes this failure: make the agent post to the private timeline by default and require an explicit public flag for any external update. Use when the exact error or symptom in the title appears. Not for a different error, tool, or a manual process with no such failure.
Fixes agents reviewing closed PRs by checking PR state before posting. Use when the agent posts to merged/closed PRs. Not for reviews posted before close.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent auto-closed a ticket the customer was still replying to: race condition - auto-close agent closed an active p1 ticket: stale-status race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted a review on an already-closed PR: race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent lost its drafted comments when the runner was preempted: persistence: how to fix - [agent auto-closed an upgrade PR as "stale" while a human was mid-review, then reopened an identical on…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent lost review state when the PR was rebased mid-review
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents silently losing comments past GitHub's inline comment limits by batching and summarizing. Use when some agent comments never appear. Not for comments rejected with errors.
Fixes review agents reviewing the base branch instead of the PR head by fetching the correct ref. Use when the review discusses code not in the PR. Not for stale-head reviews.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to read the base branch: reviewed main-to-feature instead of feature-to-main: how to fix - [dependabot: update failed with "reference already exists" - the agent's rebase loop kee…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reviewed the base branch instead of the head ref
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents commenting on the wrong PR due to pagination indexing bugs. Use when agent comments land on a different PR than intended. Not for comments on the right PR but wrong lines.
Fixes review agents approving their own PRs by requiring human approval and blocking self-approval. Use when an agent's approval counted toward its own PR. Not for human self-approval issues.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent approved its own emergency access request: approval loop guard - agent loop detected: review agent kept re-requesting changes on its own approved diff
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: review agent approved its own pull request: self-approval loop
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes GitHub push-protection blocks on a PR branch push by removing the secret from the commits. Use when the push is rejected because it contains a secret. Not for bypass-approval workflow issues.
Fixes review agents summarizing the merge commit by diffing base against head. Use when the summary describes base-branch changes. Not for summaries of the wrong PR.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to review the PR diff: reviewed the merge commit instead: how to fix - enrichment agent matched companies by name only and merged two different acme corps
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent summarized the merge commit instead of the PR diff
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents crashing on deleted PR branches by handling 404s gracefully. Use when the branch is deleted mid-review. Not for 404s on the PR itself.
Fixes: agent remediation conflicted with a teammate concurrent edits Applies when your scan flags this exact rule. Not for manual-only issues the rule does not report.
Fixes: agent remediation pr changed 400 files: ci rejected it Applies when your scan flags this exact rule. Not for manual-only issues the rule does not report.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's coverage report missing files it changed: how to fix - the grouped security-update PR failed CI with 200 changed files - the agent couldn't tell which bump broke the build
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent remediation pr changed 400 files: ci rejected it
Problem outcome: unknown