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Stop polling a table whose source is dead: the agent should check the loader's state once, report the staleness with its cause, and schedule a single recheck after the expected repair window instead of polling the same stale timestamp. Use when an agent looping on repeated freshness checks against a stale table. Not f…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent used an expired AWS Backup recovery point after sorting by start time instead of completion time - [agent followed the docs' quickstart auth - the quickstart used a demo-key scope that can't hi…
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Public search query: agent used an expired AWS Backup recovery point after sorting by start t
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent misread dnf needs-restarting output and rebooted database servers after a library-only update - agent applied patch to production ring instead of pilot ring after misreading ring label
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Public search query: agent misread dnf needs-restarting output and rebooted database servers after a
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The mount had already failed and the agent polled its stale in-progress view for a day: mount operations have terminal failure states the poller must read from the task's own status, not infer from the mount's absence. Use when an agent waiting on Rubrik live mount operations during restore tests. Not for a mount that…
Fixes this failure: add a pre-patch service stop step with verification: the agent stops the application service, confirms the process and its file handles are gone. Use when the exact error or symptom in the title appears. Not for a different error, tool, or a manual process with no such failure.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent followed the docs' quickstart auth - the quickstart used a demo-key scope that can't hit production endpoints - [auth token expired mid-checkpoint upload and the agent failed to resume the uplo…
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Public search query: agent used an expired AWS Backup recovery point after sorting by start t
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent applied patch to production ring instead of pilot ring after misreading ring label - agent hallucinated open ports from nmap output after the scan failed to resolve services
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Public search query: agent misread dnf needs-restarting output and rebooted database servers after a
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Stop polling a table whose source is dead: the agent should check the loader's state once, report the staleness with its cause, and schedule a single recheck after the expected repair window instead of polling the same stale timestamp. Use when an agent looping on repeated freshness checks against a stale table. Not f…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: agent kept repeating the same check build processing status step and failed with error - [agent loop detected: agent kept repeating the same create the new hire Okta account step…
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Public search query: agent loop detected: agent kept repeating the same revoke a stale IAM
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's ssh connection failed during long yum update - ssh session dropped mid command and agent failed to retry - [browser a…
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Public search query: agent failed with max concurrent ssh sessions during fleet sweep
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Stops an agent loop that keeps rerunning a failed AWS Glue job whose bookmark commit fails, where each rerun reprocesses the same data and piles up duplicates, covering bookmark state, job commit behaviour, and safe rerun design. Use when Glue reruns duplicate output. Not for a Glue job that fails before writing any o…
Fixes agent recovery when its warehouse session is killed mid-model and the retry restarts the whole model from scratch. Use when long models lose all progress on transient kills. Not for models that fail fast on SQL errors.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cross-account role expired mid-sweep - it reported "no idle resources" for 12 accounts - [agent's idle-resource sweep skipped the acquired company's account - the role assumption failed silen…
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Public search query: cross-account role expired mid-sweep no idle resources
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Fixes non-idempotent webhook retries on terminate calls by making the handler check instance state before acting. Use when webhook retries hit already-stopped instances. Not for webhooks that fail to deliver.
Fixes an overnight shutdown rule that stops shared resources by scoping the rule to truly dev-only assets. Use when a dev shutdown schedule stops shared staging or on-call resources. Not for dev-only resources correctly stopped.
Fixes a cost agent that repeatedly flags the DR warm standby as idle by adding a DR-exclusion list sourced from the runbook. Use when an agent keeps flagging disaster-recovery standbys as idle. Not for standbys with no DR role.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent flagged the warm DR region as waste - the failover stack it called idle is the company's only disaster recovery... - [agent flagged EC2 instances as idle using CPU average - the p99 spikes mean…
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Public search query: agent flagged the warm standby as idle for the third time
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