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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.
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.
Repairs agent test-disabling shortcuts for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent disabled or deleted a failing test rather than fixing the cause. Not for deliberately removed obsolete tests.
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
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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…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent marked an OOM-killed test as a code regression — the c
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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…
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…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
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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: - 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
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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
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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…
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Public search query: healing agent edited a test that was already skipped: wasted run detection
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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.
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
Problem outcome: unknown