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Debugs the Cypress automation client disconnected flake in CI. Use when runs intermittently die with The automation client disconnected. Covers rerunning with debug logging, checking container memory pressure, disabling the GPU, and pinning the browser version. Not for consistent disconnects on a single spec.
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
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:
Problem outcome: unknown
Bounds a flake-reproduction loop with an explicit retry budget: capped attempts, exponential backoff with a ceiling, and automatic escalation to quarantine when the budget is exhausted. Use when an agent burns hours retrying a reproduction that never converges. Not for deterministic failures, which should fail fast on…
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
Fixes test-healing agents quarantining healthy tests based on too few samples. Use when a test was quarantined after a single failure or a tiny sample. Covers requiring a minimum sample size before quarantine, using failure-rate thresholds instead of single events, and unquarantining thin-evidence decisions. Not for t…
Fixes test failures caused by the app behaving differently when CI=true is set. Use when a test passes locally but fails on CI and the app changes behavior under CI. Covers auditing CI-env-dependent code paths, making tests env-aware, and documenting the CI=true contract. Not for genuine timing flakes.
Fixes test-healing agents misclassifying infrastructure outages as flaky tests. Use when a batch of tests failed together during a known infra incident. Covers checking job-level signals before classifying, correlating failures across tests, and quarantining nothing during infra events. Not for isolated single-test fl…
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
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent quarantined a test that only failed because the agent itself left a stale docker container running - [agent verified the upgrade by running only the package's own test suite - 30 downstream tes…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent quarantined tests that failed only because its own prior run lef
Problem outcome: unknown
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
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Detects tests that fail on every first attempt but appear green because a retry loop eventually passes them, using per-attempt logging and a first-attempt-failure gate. Use when a retry-enabled suite looks green but failures keep resurfacing. Not for suites without retries or genuinely flaky tests.
Detects and prevents accidentally committed test.only (or fit, fdescribe) that makes CI pass green while skipping most of the suite. Shows how to remove the committed focus flag, add a lint rule that errors on focused tests, and run the linter in CI before the test step. Use when CI is green but far fewer tests ran th…
Stops agents from reverting good fixes on a single flaky failure by requiring repeated runs and a two-signal revert policy. Use when an agent undoes its own fix after one red run. Not for fixes that fail consistently on every run.
Teaches an agent to poll CI status efficiently with backoff, a hard time budget, and queued-vs-running detection instead of busy-waiting. Use when an agent blocks on CI results or burns its run waiting. Not for CI jobs that are slow because the tests themselves are slow.
Caps a flaky-test quarantine list with required schema fields, 30-day TTLs, auto-expiry, and a hard size limit enforced in CI. Use when the quarantine file keeps growing and quarantined tests are forgotten. Not for deciding whether a specific test is flaky.