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Repairs agent --upgrade runs that broke pinned dbt packages for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when dbt deps --upgrade moved packages off their pins. Not for registry outages or git auth issues.
Fixes: agent pinned an old axe version: missed rules the ci gate caught Applies when your scan flags this exact rule. Not for manual-only issues the rule does not report.
Use when a dependabot security PR that is really a major bump got auto-merged and broke things. Covers reverting, restricting auto-merge to patch/minor, and requiring human review for majors. Not for patch-level security bumps that merge cleanly.
Resolves npm warn EBADENGINE by aligning the node version with what the dependency requires. Use it when an upgrade pulls in a package whose engines field demands a newer node. Key trigger: EBADENGINE naming the package and the node range it needs. Not for engine warnings you have consciously accepted on a pinned olde…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent merged a green upgrade PR that only passed because the test job was skipped - the workflow's path filter... - [agent bumped django 4.2 to 5.0, then djangorestframework demanded django<5, so it …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped e2e on a dependency bump — the checkout flow broke in
Problem outcome: unknown
Use when a fix PR touched the wrong dependency scope and the finding survives. Covers mapping findings to the exact manifest path, reverting the wrong bump, and gating security PRs on rescan clearance. Not for version-resolution failures.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent bumped a devDependency into the published package because the dep was misclassified - the tarball now ships jest - [agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of main - the …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent's remediation PR bumped the devDependency instead of the prod
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version - the build failed on 'version X has been yanked' - pip-audit --fix pinned to yanked versions - the rescan passed but every build broke
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version — the build failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Stops an agent from treating a release candidate as newer than the stable release. Use it when 2.0.0-rc.1 was auto-merged to production ahead of 2.0.0. Key trigger: the merged version contains a prerelease tag while a stable release exists. Not for: deliberately testing a release candidate, which should happen on a no…
Narrows a widened peer dependency range that broke downstream consumers. Use it when a bump widened the peer range and consumers on the wider range fail. Key trigger: consumer failures started with the peer-range change, not with a code change. Not for: a peer range that was always too wide; that is original design de…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent verified the upgrade by running only the package's own test suite - 30 downstream tests broke after merge - [agent pinned a git SHA for a hotfix and never converted it back to a version range -…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's upgrade widened a peer dep range — downstream consumers brok
Problem outcome: unknown
Tightens a too-loose engines field so CI installs a supported Node. Use it when CI installed Node 16 and the new dependency requires Node 18. Key trigger: the engines range admits a Node version the dependency dropped. Not for: a genuinely supported older Node failing for other reasons, like a missing system library.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's upgrade matrix tested 48 combos across node 16/18/20 and four package versions - CI took 6 hours and timed out - [Realtime agent goes silent after tool calls: set initial_model_settings on .r…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent set the engines field too loose — CI installed node 16 a
Problem outcome: unknown
Propagates a monorepo shared-library bump to the apps that pin it. Use it when the library moved but apps still install the old version. Key trigger: the app lockfiles or manifests pin the library below the new version. Not for: apps that intentionally pin an older library version, which is a policy choice.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's poetry update ignored the python constraint in pyproject.toml - it installed a wheel requiring python 3.12 on... - [pip ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyproject.toml-based projects after p…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's poetry update ignored the python constraint in pyproject.toml —
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - pip-audit --fix pinned to yanked versions - the rescan passed but every build broke - agent's cargo update hit one "failed to download" and never retried, so it pinned the old version permanently
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version — the build failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Use when a remediation bump targeted a version that was then yanked or unpublished, breaking builds. Covers rolling back, verifying version availability before bumping, and preferring the lowest fixed version. Not for ordinary version conflicts.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's pre-merge checklist ran npm audit but the advisory DB was three days stale - the CVE was already published - agent's dependency-bump PR reintroduced a patched CVE via lockfile merge
Problem outcome: unknown