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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.
How to recover when an agent ran a codemod over test fixtures and the golden files no longer match: deciding whether to revert the fixtures or regenerate them deliberately, and excluding fixtures from future runs. Use when a codemod rewrote files it should not have touched. Not for golden files that are wrong for othe…
Fixes test-healing agents quarantining tests failed by the agent's own broken setup. Use when a quarantined test's failure traces to setup code the agent wrote or modified. Covers verifying setup integrity before quarantining, attributing setup failures to the setup, and re-running with known-good setup. Not for tests…
Fixes test-healing agents editing production code to satisfy a test when the test was actually correct. Use when a heal changed non-test code and the change looks suspicious. Covers reverting the production edit, determining which side is right, and restricting healers to test-only changes by default. Not for cases wh…
Catches order-dependent healed tests by running each healed test alone, in random order, and with its neighbors. Use when a healed test passes in the suite but fails standalone, or vice versa. Not for tests that are intentionally ordered, which should be explicitly marked and isolated, not silently dependent.
Fixes CRLF line-ending breakage from agent-edited test files by normalizing to LF and enforcing it with gitattributes and a pre-commit check. Use when healed test files fail lint or behave oddly after an agent edit. Not for files that legitimately require CRLF, which get explicit exceptions, not silent mixed endings.
Verifies an agent's selector fix across every target browser before accepting it, so a Chromium-only fix cannot break Firefox or WebKit. Use when a healed locator works in one browser but fails in others. Not for single-browser test suites, where cross-browser verification has nothing to check against.
Recovers from an agent alphabetically reordering test files by reverting the reorder and forbidding file moves in the healing lane. Use when a healing patch renames or reorders test files and imports break. Not for deliberate file reorganization, which is a planned refactor with import fixes and a full suite run.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - test healing agent broke three other tests while fixing one: how to contain - test healing agent updated the assertion instead of fixing the code: how to catch
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reordered test files alphabetically while healing: import breakage fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Detects when a healing agent works against a stale build artifact by comparing the artifact's source commit against the current source before any healing starts. Use when healed tests pass against an old build and fail on the fresh one. Not for interpreted codebases with no build step, where staleness cannot occur.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's mock drifted from the real API: how to detect stale mocks - agent failed to detect the duplicate: cached the stale company list
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent healed tests against a stale build artifact: how to detect
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 fixed a flaky test by adding cleanup, but the leak was in a different test that runs before it - [agent merged a green upgrade PR that only passed because the test job was skipped - the workflo…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: healing agent edited a test that was already skipped: wasted run detection
Problem outcome: unknown
Stops a healing agent from rewriting entire spec files by enforcing diff-size guardrails: patches over the limit are rejected and the agent must resubmit surgical edits. Use when healed tests arrive as full-file rewrites instead of targeted changes. Not for genuine large refactors, which go through human review with a…
Constrains a test-healing agent's write access so it can never patch node_modules or other generated directories. It applies a filesystem allowlist (repo source and tests editable; node_modules, dist, build, .git read-only) enforced by the sandbox, plus diff-size limits. Use when an agent's fix touches vendored or gen…
Stops an agent's green-local/red-CI loop by enforcing environment parity before any healing claim. It pins the base image, runtime version, env vars, and seeds, and requires the agent to verify inside the same container CI uses. Use when an agent insists tests pass locally while CI keeps failing. Not for failures that…
Fixes main-only failures mislabeled as flaky. Use when a test fails on main but PRs never exercise it. Covers confirming the coverage gap, bisecting the merge range, and fixing the regression. Not for tests that fail on PRs too.
Fixes healing patches that introduce races by assuming serial execution. Use when a fix passes locally but fails on parallel CI. Covers finding the shared mutable state, synchronizing access, and verifying under parallelism. Not for races that predate the fix.
Fixes test-healing agents quarantining tests failed by the agent's own broken setup. Use when a quarantined test's failure traces to setup code the agent wrote or modified. Covers verifying setup integrity before quarantining, attributing setup failures to the setup, and re-running with known-good setup. Not for tests…