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Sort recovery points by completion time, because a point's start time says when its backup began, not when it became usable or what state it captured at the end: the agent chose an expired point by ordering on the wrong field. Use when an agent selecting AWS Backup recovery points for restores. Not for a point-in-time…
The mount had already failed and the agent polled its stale in-progress view for a day: mount operations have terminal failure states the poller must read from the task's own status, not infer from the mount's absence. Use when an agent waiting on Rubrik live mount operations during restore tests. Not for a mount that…
Sort recovery points by completion time, because a point's start time says when its backup began, not when it became usable or what state it captured at the end: the agent chose an expired point by ordering on the wrong field. Use when an agent selecting AWS Backup recovery points for restores. Not for a point-in-time…
Fixes an agent run that hits the AWS IAM API rate limit with a 429 error while trying to revoke a stale IAM role, by honouring retry signals, pacing requests and resuming from checkpoints. Use when a run fails partway on rate limits. Not for a quota that is exhausted for the whole billing or tenant period, which needs…
Fixes an agent run that fails with a context limit error while trying to revoke a stale IAM role, by chunking inputs, keeping state outside the context and summarising per batch. Use when full review data is loaded into one agent context. Not for a run that fails on a single small input, which points at a different fa…
Fixes agent disk-space checks failing by racing a running backup job: sample space with job awareness, use trends instead of instant readings, and reserve target headroom. Use when a space check misfires because a backup is mid-write. Not for genuinely full disks.
Fixes agents failing restore tests by mounting the wrong volume: select volumes by durable identifiers and content checks, never by enumeration order. Use when an agent mounts an incorrect volume for verification. Not for sandbox provisioning errors.
Fixes an unbounded rightsizing loop by adding minimum-size floors and OOM-aware guardrails. Use when iterative rightsizing shrinks instances until the OOM killer fires. Not for one-shot rightsizing recommendations.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to terminate its review loop: the PR kept updating: how to fix - agent exceeded news api quota with unbounded pagination loop
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's rightsizing loop had no upper bound — it kept shrin
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Fixes a downsizing recommendation that tanks p99 latency by accounting for tenancy noise on smaller instances. Use when smaller instances suffer noisy-neighbor latency degradation. Not for dedicated-tenancy workloads.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the benchmark on a noisy-neighbor VM and the numbers are not reproducible - agent recommended buying RIs per account - the discounts would have been better pooled at the payer level
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent recommended smaller instances — noisy-neighbor effect on shar
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Fixes a commitment recommendation that ignores the migration timeline by capping commitment terms at the platform exit date. Use when an agent recommends a long commitment for a workload leaving the platform. Not for stable long-term workloads.
Fixes a rightsizing that throttles a database by adding IOPS and throughput requirements to volume sizing. Use when a gp3 volume throttles because rightsizing ignored IOPS needs. Not for CPU-bound database issues.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - cost agent moved the payment queue to spot instances - it didn't check the workload can't survive a 2-minute... - [agent's spot-interruption handler never fired - no CloudWatch event for the rebalanc…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent moved dev workloads to spot — the 2am spot interruptio
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent flagged the holiday read-replica fleet as idle - it didn't know the replicas exist only for December - [agent recommended adding an index that made writes 3x slower -- it only measured read lat…
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Public search query: agent consolidated rds read replicas — read latency doubled and su
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Fixes a CPU-only idle check that kills memory-bound workloads by requiring multi-metric idle criteria. Use when an idle check based on CPU alone targets memory-bound workloads like Redis. Not for genuinely idle instances.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - cost agent deleted EBS snapshots it thought were orphaned - the "owner: none" tag was a silent tagging failure at... - [agent deleted "old" snapshots - it didn't know the 2-year-old snapshot was the …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's ebs snapshot lifecycle policy deleted in-use snapshots — m
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent rightsized the Kubernetes nodes - it measured node CPU and missed that the cluster autoscaler was keeping... - cluster-autoscaler "failed to scale up group": how to debug
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's k8s node rightsize failed — the cluster-autoscaler foug
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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 test B for the failure - test A leaked an unhandled timer that fired during test B
Problem outcome: unknown