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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 looping because the ERP keeps returning the same 500 unapplied payments every call: detect the repetition, change the query to a diff or paged scan, and treat the unapplied list as a data set to work through, not an endless feed. Use when the same records repeat on every poll. Not when new unapplied pay…
Fixes a patch agent diff parser failing on kernel configuration changes, where comparing kernel config files (for example /boot config files or the running config) across a kernel update produces parse errors or thousands of false diffs because the config format, ordering, or defaults changed between versions. Use whe…
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... - agent's diff parser failed on binary file renames in docs sync
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's diff parser failed on kernel config changes
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent scan diff that flags ordinary configuration changes as new vulnerabilities, by diffing on normalised finding identity and classifying changes before labelling them new. Use when a diff report between two authorized scans invents new issues out of changed banners, versions, or settings. Not for ge…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent emailed the findings to the wrong manager - approval chain misread - agent misread the finding and rotated the wrong key: logic error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's remediation advice referenced the wrong CVE for a finding
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent report missing web findings because its Burp scan import failed silently, by making the importer validate counts and surface errors. Use when Burp found web issues that never reach the agent's report. Not for Burp scans that genuinely found nothing, which import as an explicit zero.
Fixes a pentest agent reporting no vulnerabilities after parsing an empty nuclei JSONL as a clean result, by treating empty scanner output as a failed run until proven otherwise. Use when a report claims a clean target but the underlying nuclei output file is empty. Not for genuinely clean scans with a full output rec…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's secret-scan flagged its own redacted output: false-positive loop - agent's secret-scan flagged its own redacted output: false-positive loop
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent classified a scanner false positive as critical with no evidence
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent report whose finding count changes between drafts with no new scan data, by versioning the findings set and diffing drafts against it. Use when successive drafts of the same engagement report disagree on totals. Not for changes caused by documented triage or a rescan between drafts, which belong …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent generated a report with CVSS scores that don't match the findings - NVD says CVSS 9.8, the agent's recompute said 7.5 - it dropped the Scope metric
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent assigned CVSS vectors to informational findings
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - security agent hallucinated a CVE not in NVD: verification workflow - agent hallucinated a fivetran connector id that does not exist, sync check failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent hallucinated a vulnerability not present in any scanner output
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent ran trivy with --severity HIGH,CRITICAL and reported zero findings - the medium CVEs it skipped included... - agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's severity mapping flipped medium findings to high across the report
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - trivy and grype report the same OpenSSL CVE under different identifiers - the agent opened two tickets and nobody... - [the agent's dedup keyed on image digest but the registry retagged the same dige…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reported the same CVE twice with different severities in one report
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent dedup step that merges distinct vulnerabilities into one finding, by keying dedup on host, check, and affected parameter or path together. Use when the agent's report shows fewer findings than the scanner output contains, with unlike issues collapsed. Not for true duplicates of the same check on …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - parser agent merged two candidates into one record - same name, different emails, no dedup key on file - agent failed to fit finding notes in context limit and dropped critical vulnerabilities
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's finding dedup merged distinct vulnerabilities into one finding
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent failed to parse nikto HTML report; findings list came back empty - agent failed to parse ZAP XML report; findings list came back empty
Problem outcome: unknown