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Fixes the synthetic data agent workflow failure agent hallucinated a column that does not exist in the source schema by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one small scope first, then rerunning and reconciling counts. Use when this error blocks generation, validation or export. Not for platform outag…
Ground lineage in executed SQL only: the agent reported column lineage from a query it drafted but never ran, so build lineage from query history or the compiled SQL of runs that actually executed, and mark drafted SQL as unverified. Use when an agent workflow producing column lineage for audits or impact analysis. No…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent churn scoring job never ran: generated BigQuery SQL failed the dry run validation and the error was only in the... - [agent hallucinating a build number that was never uploaded: generated wrong…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent hallucinating column lineage from sql that was never run caused
Problem outcome: unknown
Refresh the cached table schema instead of rewriting the query: Trino caches remote table metadata, so a column dropped at the source keeps failing until the cache is invalidated or the table is re-registered in the connector. Use when a Trino catalog over a remote or federated table whose schema changed at the source…
Ground every generated query in the live catalog: before running generated SQL, resolve each column name against the information schema for the target table and reject or correct any name that does not exist. Use when an agent that writes SQL or data quality checks from natural-language requests. Not for a column that…
Fixes this failure: gate any fix-deployed claim on deployment evidence (the deploy system's completed event), remove or correct the premature 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 a Metabase card that fails because a column no longer exists by syncing the schema and updating the question to the current field name. Use when a saved question breaks after a table change. Not for a whole database connection failure affecting every card.
Repairs agent-dropped columns still used downstream for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent's schema change removed a column dashboards or models query. Not for deliberate deprecations.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's schema migration dropped a column with data URIs dry-run diff first - fivetran schema change dropped a column, downstream models failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent schema change dropped a column dashboards still query
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran prisma migrate dev against the shared staging database and wiped everyone's data - [agent ran the migration against production because DATABASE_URL pointed at prod in its shell - how to gua…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent ran alembic with the dev alembic.ini against the production database
Problem outcome: unknown
How to fix a migration that passed locally on sqlite but failed in production on postgres: reproducing on real postgres, fixing the dialect differences, and making CI test against postgres. Use when the local/prod database mismatch hides failures. Not for failures that reproduce on postgres locally.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the migration against production because DATABASE_URL pointed at prod in its shell - how to guard against... - [agent squashed migrations locally but production still runs the old files - h…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's migration config pointed at sqlite while production runs postgres
Problem outcome: unknown
How to fix a rollback script that references columns that no longer exist because the down migration was never tested: repairing the down migration and adding up/down testing to CI. Use when rollback fails on a stale down migration. Not for rollbacks that fail for data reasons.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent added a database reset to the failing test instead of finding the test that skipped its teardown on failure - [agent applied migrations out of order - it skipped a revision and now the schem…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped the down-migration test and the rollback script references columns
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovery when an agent's idempotency check read the wrong state table (flyway_schema_history instead of alembic_version): reconciling the real state and fixing the agent's procedure to check the tool the app actually uses. Use when a migration was skipped or double-applied because the agent consulted the wrong history…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent updated the wrong snapshot file in a monorepo: how to scope - docs agent failed: committed generated docs to the wrong directory
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent committed the migration file with a wrong timestamp prefix so it s
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent dry-ran the codemod and the output looked right, then the real run rewrote files the dry-run had skipped - agent's eval comparison used different seeds across runs: nondeterminism fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's dry run used a different postgres search_path than the real migratio
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovery and prevention after an agent ran prisma migrate dev against a shared staging database and wiped data URIs restoring from backup, and the guardrails that keep migrate dev off shared databases. Use when migrate dev reset a database it should never have touched. Not for migrate deploy issues.