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Fixes the blind spot after an agent disabled store_failures on tests, so failing rows were no longer captured and failures became undebuggable. Use when tests fail but no failures table exists to inspect. Not for environments where failures are captured by a different system on purpose.
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 - …
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Public search query: agent couldn't tell which of 5 failing tests was the root cause
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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
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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.
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
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Public search query: agent test selector ran the entire suite instead of the failing test
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent fixed the symptom in CI config but the test still fails on developers' machines - agent couldn't reproduce a failure because CI uses a different timezone and the test parsed a local date
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Public search query: agent misread the test failure: fixed staging, prod still broken
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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…
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Public search query: agent marked an OOM-killed test as a code regression — the c
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI - the bug was a rendering difference in the older version - [agent treated 2.0.0-rc.1 as newer than 2.0.0 - it auto-merged a release candidate to…
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Public search query: agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI — the
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent called it flaky because the error differed per run - it was actually locale-dependent date formatting - [the agent said "flake" because the error changed every run, but it was actually an unini…
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Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
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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…
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Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
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Reproduces merge-queue-only failures by replicating merge-queue conditions: rebased onto the target, with sibling changes and realistic load. Use when an agent cannot reproduce a failure locally because it only happens in the merge queue. Not for failures that reproduce on a plain branch run, which are ordinary bugs, …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent couldn't reproduce a failure because CI uses a different timezone and the test parsed a local date - [agent labeled a test flaky that only fails on main - PRs never run it, so the flake is a me…
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Public search query: agent couldn't reproduce the failure: it only failed on the merge queue
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent fixed the symptom in CI config but the test still fails on developers' machines - agent's fix passed tests locally but broke the production dag order: deploy error
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Public search query: agent's test-fix loop passes locally but fails in CI: environment pa
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent opened the upgrade PR against main but the package's tests only ran under the agent's branch config - CI never... - [agent marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leak…
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