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Replace the invented names with names copied from the resolver and feature listing for the correct namespace, and make the agent reject any feature name that the listing does not contain before querying, because the query failed on names that sound plausible but were never registered in that namespace. Use when you se…
Fixes sandbox dirty state after an agent VM snapshot revert crashes: rebuild sandbox VMs from templates, add crash-safe cleanup, and verify state before each test. Use when a failed revert leaves a sandbox unusable. Not for production VM snapshot problems.
Fixes an agent whose dbt deps fails inside a sandbox because git SSH credentials for private package repos are not configured. Use when packages.yml references private git repos over SSH. Not for public hub packages, which need no git auth.
Repairs agent --upgrade runs that broke pinned dbt packages for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when dbt deps --upgrade moved packages off their pins. Not for registry outages or git auth issues.
Fixes dbt deps failures on unavailable package versions for analytics engineers and repair agents. Use when dbt deps cannot find a pinned package version. Not for git auth errors or network failures during install.
Fixes: agent pinned an old axe version: missed rules the ci gate caught 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 cargo update hit one "failed to download" and never retried, so it pinned the old version permanently - agent broke the audit ruleset while patching a policy threshold
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent pinned an old axe version: missed rules the ci gate caught
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI - the bug was a rendering difference in the older version - [agent treated 2.0.0-rc.1 as newer than 2.0.0 - it auto-merged a release candidate to…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI — the
Problem outcome: unknown
Constrains a test-healing agent's write access so it can never patch node_modules or other generated directories. It applies a filesystem allowlist (repo source and tests editable; node_modules, dist, build, .git read-only) enforced by the sandbox, plus diff-size limits. Use when an agent's fix touches vendored or gen…
Stops an agent from burning the GitHub API quota polling registry metadata. Use it when the changelog step dies partway with rate-limit errors. Key trigger: the logs show rate-limit responses and the agent made one API call per package. Not for: quota burned by CI or other tools, which needs org-level quota management.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's diff counted 60 changes but 58 were comment balloons the counterparty left in the margin that the parser read... - [the agent's diff flagged every defined term as changed - counterparty capit…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's SBOM diff flagged 200 changes — all were hash-only and
Problem outcome: unknown
Restores e2e coverage for dependency bumps on critical paths. Use it when a bump skipped e2e and broke a user-facing flow in production. Key trigger: the broken flow touches code paths the dependency serves, and e2e was not in the PR checks. Not for: a bump with no user-facing surface, where unit tests suffice.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent merged a green upgrade PR that only passed because the test job was skipped - the workflow's path filter... - [agent bumped django 4.2 to 5.0, then djangorestframework demanded django<5, so it …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped e2e on a dependency bump — the checkout flow broke in
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a false-green test run where the sandbox tested a vendored copy instead of the bump. Use it when the install fell back to vendored code and the tests validated the old version. Key trigger: the tested version does not match the bumped version. Not for: genuinely passing tests on the new version, which need no fi…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of main - the bump shipped to production without review - [agent verified the bump against a mocked registry; the real registry served a…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent verified the bump in a sandbox without network — the inst
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a deploy failure from architecture mismatch on native modules. Use it when a bump verified on arm64 fails on x86 production. Key trigger: the failure names a native module or binary compiled for the wrong architecture. Not for: pure-JavaScript or pure-Python packages, which are architecture-independent.
Recovers when a rollback fails because the old version was yanked. Use it when the previous version is no longer installable from the registry. Key trigger: the rollback install fails with a yanked or not-found error for the old version. Not for: a rollback blocked by data migration, which is a state problem, not a ve…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version - the build failed on 'version X has been yanked' - agent failed to detect the policy violation: cached the old policy version
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's rollback PR failed — the old version had been yank
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent bumped a devDependency into the published package because the dep was misclassified - the tarball now ships jest - [agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of main - the …
Problem outcome: unknown