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Fix this in Help center by grant approvers the review permission that includes comparing versions, add the approver to the article space or brand, and have the approver open the diff for the pending change before approving anything. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents working in the help center. Not f…
Check the branch still exists before each poll and exit with a clear deleted-branch result when the branch lookup returns not found, because the agent is polling a deployment whose branch was deleted, so the status will never advance and the poll has no terminal state to reach. Use when you see this exact failure: age…
Publish the branch first so a dataset revision exists, or pin the offline query to a revision id that the branch listing actually returns, because the query asked the named branch for a revision that was never created on it. Use when you see this exact failure: Chalk offline query failed error "dataset revision not fo…
Fixes GraphQL 'query complexity limit exceeded' errors when an agent fetches all review threads on a PR. Use it when a single big threads query is rejected for being too expensive. Key trigger: the complexity-limit error on a review-threads query.
Fixes agents reviewing closed PRs by checking PR state before posting. Use when the agent posts to merged/closed PRs. Not for reviews posted before close.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent auto-closed a ticket the customer was still replying to: race condition - auto-close agent closed an active p1 ticket: stale-status race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted a review on an already-closed PR: race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents losing state on mid-review rebases by keying state to the commit SHA. Use when a rebase wipes the agent's progress. Not for force-pushes without rebase.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent lost its drafted comments when the runner was preempted: persistence: how to fix - [agent auto-closed an upgrade PR as "stale" while a human was mid-review, then reopened an identical on…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent lost review state when the PR was rebased mid-review
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents silently losing comments past GitHub's inline comment limits by batching and summarizing. Use when some agent comments never appear. Not for comments rejected with errors.
Fixes review agents reviewing the base branch instead of the PR head by fetching the correct ref. Use when the review discusses code not in the PR. Not for stale-head reviews.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to read the base branch: reviewed main-to-feature instead of feature-to-main: how to fix - [dependabot: update failed with "reference already exists" - the agent's rebase loop kee…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reviewed the base branch instead of the head ref
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents commenting on the wrong PR due to pagination indexing bugs. Use when agent comments land on a different PR than intended. Not for comments on the right PR but wrong lines.
Fixes review agents summarizing the merge commit by diffing base against head. Use when the summary describes base-branch changes. Not for summaries of the wrong PR.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to review the PR diff: reviewed the merge commit instead: how to fix - enrichment agent matched companies by name only and merged two different acme corps
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent summarized the merge commit instead of the PR diff
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents crashing on deleted PR branches by handling 404s gracefully. Use when the branch is deleted mid-review. Not for 404s on the PR itself.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent hit secondary rate limit mid-diff-fetch: abuse detection mechanism triggered - code review agent froze mid-annotation on a minified bundle diff
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent diff fetch 404d: PR branch deleted mid-review
Problem outcome: unknown
Cleans up and prevents upgrade PRs opened during a code freeze. Use it when an agent's schedule fires during a freeze window and PRs land on a frozen branch. Key trigger: PRs opened inside the freeze dates against a protected release line. Not for: emergency hotfix PRs, which are supposed to cut through a freeze.
Fixes Greenhouse 404 "job not found" when the agent reads a deleted req. Use when the agent syncs against vanished jobs. Key trigger: 404 naming a job that existed yesterday.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's bulk job monitor timed out waiting for salesforce to finish - review agent failed to refresh line numbers after a force push: stale commit references: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent timed out diffing a force-pushed 500-commit branch
Problem outcome: unknown