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Separate the fetch failure from the report failure: test the metrics API call the agent makes on its own, check the returned payload shape against what the report builder expects, and add a cached fallback of the last good metrics so one API outage does not kill the whole report. Use when an agent that cannot fetch Mo…
Separate the fetch failure from the report failure: test the metrics API call the agent makes on its own, check the returned payload shape against what the report builder expects, and add a cached fallback of the last good metrics so one API outage does not kill the whole report. Use when an agent that cannot fetch Mo…
Debugs API usage falling to zero after a migration by checking endpoint, credential, and base-URL changes against gateway logs. Use when API consumers go silent post-migration. Not for a decommissioned API that was announced and sunset.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's mock drifted from the real API: how to detect stale mocks - agent mis-mapped source to target columns in generated dbt model, downstream test failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's unit test mock drifted from the model's real columns
Problem outcome: unknown
Shows how to recover when an agent invents a plausible Fivetran connector id, and how to ground agent work in the Fivetran API list endpoints before any per connector call. Use when a sync check fails on a connector that cannot be found. Not for a real connector that was deleted by a teammate mid incident.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's mock drifted from the real API: how to detect stale mocks - dbt unit test failed on mocked ref data - [agent built ag…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's unit test mock drifted from the model's real columns
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes docs agents that generate API references from a stale docs submodule. Use when generated reference docs lag the submodule content. Not for build failures or wrong-tag issues.
Reconciles drifted mocks with the live spec. Use when mock-green code 404s in production. Not for provider outages.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent verified the bump against a mocked registry; the real registry served a different tarball and checksums failed... - [agent's mock server port conflicted with the app under test: how to isolate]…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent built against a mock server — the mock's routes didn't
Problem outcome: unknown
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…
Restores the missing mocker fixture by declaring pytest-mock in CI dependencies. Use when pytest fails in CI with fixture 'mocker' not found while passing locally. Covers confirming the plugin is absent, adding it to the test requirements, and verifying registration. Not for runtime failures of the mocker fixture itse…
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
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
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the benchmark with the debugger attached and reported the breakpoint overhead as app latency - [agent didn't know CI sets CI=true - the app disables animations in CI and the test's timing a…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's mock server port conflicted with the app under test: how
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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
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: re-flagging the same already-merged duplicates - agent's quarantine list still contains renamed tests - dead entries skipping nothing while the real failures run
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent merged duplicate tests while deduplicating the suite: how to detect
Problem outcome: unknown