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Fixes the Search check agent problem where Agent timed out checking help center search results - slow run by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in the help center.…
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…
Pace the agent's dbt Cloud API usage as a client of a shared service: batch status polls, cache job definitions, and spread test submissions instead of firing them together when a workflow fans out. Use when an agent hitting the dbt Cloud API limit during test execution. Not for a local dbt Core test run, where no clo…
Fixes agent test matrices hanging after queueing hundreds of restore combos: prune the matrix by risk, stream execution with progress, and time-box the whole run. Use when a restore test matrix of hundreds of combinations hangs. Not for sandbox crashes from parallelism alone.
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
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
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: - my agent quarantined every test in the file that failed instead of finding the one broken test polluting the rest - [agent added cleanup to the victim test instead of the polluter - the leak still hi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
Problem outcome: unknown
Adds a review gate that stops an agent from applying one blanket fix to every failing test without diagnosing each failure. Use when a healing patch touches many tests with the same change and no per-test rationale. Not for genuinely shared root causes, which get one fix plus a written diagnosis linking it to each fai…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: re-running the same failing test without code changes - agent's fix broke 5 other tests - it changed a shared fixture without understanding the blast radius
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent applied the same fix to every failing test without diagnosing: r
Problem outcome: unknown
Stops wasted healing runs by checking skip markers before an agent touches a test: skipped tests are out of scope and get logged, not healed. Use when an agent burns a run editing tests that were already skipped or expected to fail. Not for tests skipped by accident or stale skip reasons, which should be un-skipped an…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's canary analysis passed but users still saw errors: how to check canary coverage - agent's fix passed locally but introduced a new race in CI - it assumed single-threaded execution
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's coverage gate passed but missed untested branches it introduced
Problem outcome: unknown