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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 an agent run that fails parsing the IAM policy JSON with comments during access review work, by diagnosing the file structure, quarantining bad records and validating parsed output against source counts. Use when parsing, not the platform API, is what breaks the run. Not for files that parse cleanly but contain …
Fixes an agent run that fails parsing the IAM policy JSON with comments during access review work, by diagnosing the file structure, quarantining bad records and validating parsed output against source counts. Use when parsing, not the platform API, is what breaks the run. Not for files that parse cleanly but contain …
Fixes GraphQL 'query complexity limit exceeded' errors when an agent fetches all review threads on a PR. Use it when a single big threads query is rejected for being too expensive. Key trigger: the complexity-limit error on a review-threads query.
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.
Fixes review agents losing state on mid-review rebases by keying state to the commit SHA. Use when a rebase wipes the agent's progress. Not for force-pushes without rebase.
Fixes agent review bodies cut off by unescaped backticks by escaping code spans in generated markdown. Use when the review body ends abruptly or renders broken. Not for API length limits.
Fixes agents hitting GitHub secondary rate limits by batching review comments. Use when bulk comment posting triggers abuse detection. Not for primary rate-limit exhaustion.
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's GitHub token got rate-limited mid-sourcing - the unauthenticated fallback dropped to 60 req/hr without anyone... - [code review agent hit GraphQL rate limit mid-review while posting batch com…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent comments silently dropped past GitHub inline comment limit
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Fixes review-agent diff chunkers that split mid-function by chunking on syntactic boundaries. Use when review comments blame the wrong lines. Not for wrong-file attributions.
Fixes review agents posting inline comments as top-level by correcting diff position mapping. Use when line comments appear as general comments. Not for comments on wrong lines within the diff.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to map comment positions: commented on lines outside the diff: how to fix - review agent failed to quote the right code line: off-by-one in diff position: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted inline comments as top-level: diff position mapping failed
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to refresh line numbers after a force push: stale commit references: how to fix - GitHub token expired mid-run while the review agent posted line comments
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted review comments to the wrong PR number after pagination
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - upgrade PR opened with no release notes: the repo kept its changelog in a .rst file the agent couldn't parse - [agent's dependency-dashboard PR grew to 300 files - operators couldn't review it and cl…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent could not parse no newline at end of file diff markers
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents degrading to plain comments by granting the token write scope or documenting the limitation. Use when the agent cannot submit formal reviews. Not for agents with write access.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent built token refresh around expires_in - the API only returns absolute expiry in a differently named field and... - GitHub token expired mid-run while the review agent posted line comments
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent read-only token forced reviews into plain comments
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes comment balloons being parsed as body text and inflating diff change counts. Use when most reported changes are margin comments, not edits. Covers extracting annotations separately from body text, diffing body only, and reporting comments as their own list. Not for real tracked-change edits.