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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 added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky test database - the suite now takes twice as long - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
Problem outcome: unknown
Detects when retry-with-backoff is masking a deterministic timeout by adding a fixed-delay control run and comparing failure timing across attempts. Use when retries always fail at the same elapsed time. Not for genuine flakes with varying failure times, where backoff retries are appropriate.
Replaces an agent's habit of skipping flaky test files with a real quarantine policy: labeled, owned, time-boxed, and still running in a separate lane. Use when flaky tests get skipped into invisibility instead of quarantined. Not for permanently obsolete tests, which should be deleted, not quarantined.
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:
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent classified a DNS outage in CI as a flaky test - the whole job lost network for 40 seconds - agent ran go get -u ./... and upgraded 40 modules at once; the bisect took two days
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Public search query: agent's flaky-test bisect changed two variables at once: how to control
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Fixes nondeterministic eval comparisons by pinning random seeds, running each variant multiple times, and comparing distributions instead of single runs. Use when an agent's A/B eval conclusions flip between runs or seeds differ across compared runs. Not for deterministic unit-test flakes, which are a test-isolation p…
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.
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…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent labeled a test flaky that only fails on main — PRs never ru
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries - agent marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leaked the state
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
Problem outcome: unknown
Stops agents from re-running failing dbt tests without changes: the tests are deterministic, so the loop is pure waste. Use when an agent re-runs the same failing tests repeatedly. Not for tests re-run after a fix.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent classified a timeout as flaky even though the test's runtime tripled in every failure - how to catch a... - [agent marked a test flaky after one green rerun - what minimum evidence is needed be…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent classified a DNS outage in CI as a flaky test — the whole
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Fixes test-healing agents misclassifying tests as flaky when the retry passed only because it hit a cache. Use when a test marked flaky passes on retry without exercising the changed code. Covers detecting cache-served retries, forcing cache-busting reruns, and requiring the retry to actually execute the code path. No…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent closed a failing test as "flaky" because it passed on retry, but the retry ran with a warm cache - [test-healing agent marked a real regression as flaky - the test failed 3 times in a row but w…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: test-healing agent marked a passing-on-retry test as flaky — the retry
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Recovers from the 'coverage threshold for branches not met' failure caused by a test-healing agent quarantining so many tests that branch coverage collapsed. Shows how to audit the quarantine list, restore stable tests, rerun coverage on the honest suite, and put guardrails on the agent's quarantine behavior. Use when…
Caps the time an agent may spend re-running a single flaky test with a retry budget (max attempts times per-attempt timeout) plus quarantine-on-exhaustion. Use when an agent grinds on one test instead of escalating. Not for human-led debugging sessions or suites that are uniformly slow.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent marked a flaky test as fixed after one green run: how to verify - agent marked a test flaky after one green rerun - what minimum evidence is needed before calling it a flake
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries
Problem outcome: unknown