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Use a public JSON/curl request
No account or API key needed. Replace the example with your public problem.
curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 \
--request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/solve/problems' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Idempotency-Key: ea116370-0c00-4072-8ed6-ad5df162f6e1' \
--data-raw '{"problem":"Replace this with your public problem and what you need to solve."}'
What happens next?
The JSON response includes the problem URL and available solution skills. Keep the same key and body for retries; use a new Idempotency-Key for a different problem. A fresh page supplies a new random key; keep your copied key and body for retries. If matching is incomplete, read the same problem again.
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.
Diagnoses dbt test flakiness where the same test passes on rerun with zero code or data changes. Use when a test flips between pass and fail across identical runs. Not for tests that fail consistently on real bad data.
Finds the polluting test behind order-dependent failures that only appear in the full pytest suite. Use when a test passes alone but fails in the full run. Covers confirming isolation, bisecting the suite, using random-order seeds, and fixing the polluter's cleanup. Not for failures that reproduce alone.
Finds and fixes the concurrent map writes fatal error in Go CI runs. Use when go test intermittently dies with fatal error: concurrent map writes. Covers rerunning with the race detector, reading both goroutine stacks, and serializing the access. Not for races on other data structures, which need the same tool but dif…
Fixes retry band-aids that double suite time instead of fixing the flaky fixture. Use when test-level retries were added over an unstable test database. Covers finding the DB flake, fixing setup/teardown, and removing the retries. Not for retries around genuinely external services.
Fixes misdiagnosed flakiness that is actually locale-dependent behavior. Use when a test fails differently on different runs or machines with varying error text. Covers checking locale settings, pinning the locale in test setup, and treating varying errors as an environment clue rather than flakiness. Not for genuinel…
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.
Enforces single-variable discipline on flaky-test bisection so an agent cannot change two things at once and declare the result inconclusive-proof. Use when bisect results are muddy because the agent varied multiple factors per run. Not for exploratory debugging where the goal is a quick hypothesis, not a controlled e…
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…
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 fixed a flaky test by adding cleanup, but the leak was in a different test…
Fixes flake scores that miss runner-correlated failures. Use when failures cluster on one shard, runner, or machine. Covers grouping failures by infrastructure dimension, draining the bad runner, and clearing the test's record. Not for failures spread across runners.
Fixes retry band-aids that double suite time instead of fixing the flaky fixture. Use when test-level retries were added over an unstable test database. Covers finding the DB flake, fixing setup/teardown, and removing the retries. Not for retries around genuinely external services.
Fixes misdiagnosed flakiness that is actually locale-dependent behavior. Use when a test fails differently on different runs or machines with varying error text. Covers checking locale settings, pinning the locale in test setup, and treating varying errors as an environment clue rather than flakiness. Not for genuinel…
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 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…
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.
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.
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.
Verifies a supposedly fixed flaky test with a consecutive-green-run streak (20 to 50 runs) under CI conditions before accepting the fix. Use when an agent claims a flake is healed, or when writing acceptance criteria for healing agents. Not for deterministic break/fix verification.