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Bound the agent's test run before raising its timeout: select the changed models and their tests instead of the whole project, build with a state selection or a limited target sample for the test pass, and split the run so model builds and tests report separately. Use when an agent whose dbt test run times out on a la…
Bound the agent's test run before raising its timeout: select the changed models and their tests instead of the whole project, build with a state selection or a limited target sample for the test pass, and split the run so model builds and tests report separately. Use when an agent whose dbt test run times out on a la…
Fixes the blind spot after an agent disabled store_failures on tests, so failing rows were no longer captured and failures became undebuggable. Use when tests fail but no failures table exists to inspect. Not for environments where failures are captured by a different system on purpose.
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
Fixes an agent stuck looping dbt test on the same failing test many times without changing anything between runs. Use when automation repeats identical test invocations. Not for a single manual rerun to confirm flakiness.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - test-healing agent marked a real regression as flaky - the test failed 3 times in a row but with different error... - [agent classified a DNS outage in CI as a flaky test - the whole job lost network…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's heartbeat to orchestrator lost and test marked failed
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
Repairs agent test-disabling shortcuts for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent disabled or deleted a failing test rather than fixing the cause. Not for deliberately removed obsolete 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 added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky test database …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent disabled the failing test instead of fixing the data
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes dbt build failures where the model passes but its tests fail, for analytics engineers and repair agents. Use when dbt build shows the model green and a test red. Not for model build failures or test selection issues.
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
Problem outcome: unknown
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