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Fixes the synthetic data agent workflow failure parser failed on categorical metadata YAML - agent misread rare categories as null by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one small scope first, then rerunning and reconciling counts. Use when this error blocks generation, validation or export. Not for …
Shows how to render a diff of two Tiptap revisions safely: diff ProseMirror JSON at block level with hard caps, generate HTML with the same extensions so table cell colspan, rowspan and colwidth survive, then sanitize with DOMPurify keeping only allowlisted inline style properties. Use when a revision history view is …
Diff with tools, not with attention: artifacts such as configs, metric files, and logs should be diffed by a diff program over local copies, and the agent should read only the resulting hunks. Use when an agent comparing artifacts between two experiment runs. Not for a semantic diff, such as comparing model outputs, w…
Diff with tools, not with attention: artifacts such as configs, metric files, and logs should be diffed by a diff program over local copies, and the agent should read only the resulting hunks. Use when an agent comparing artifacts between two experiment runs. Not for a semantic diff, such as comparing model outputs, w…
Diff the definition against the live source schema, fix the named field type or reference at its definition rather than at each consumer, and rebuild or revalidate in dependency order. Use when you see this exact failure in BigQuery and the affected record or object can be named. Not for a different BigQuery error wit…
Fixes an agent that failed to detect a bank feed switching from CSV to JSON mid-month and silently imported zero transactions: add format detection and zero-row alarms to the feed pipeline, backfill the missing days from the bank, and reconcile the gap. Use for agent bank feed jobs. Not for a feed that the bank discon…
Fixes an agent IOC matching failure caused by defanged hxxps URLs never being normalised before a threat feed lookup, by refanging and canonicalising indicators first. Use when known bad URLs miss in the agent feed checks. Not for feed outages where lookups error rather than return no match.
Fixes an agent failing to parse health score JSON after an API update moved or nested fields by adding schema-tolerant parsing and contract checks. Use when parsing broke right after an API release. Not for an API returning errors instead of JSON.
Diagnoses a DAG parse failure after an agent updated an Airflow Variable that DAG code reads at parse time, covering variables read during parsing, mid update visibility, and moving parse time reads to run time. Use when a variable edit coincides with parse errors. Not for a variable used only inside task execution.
Fixes an agent failing to download dbt Cloud run artefacts by using a guessed or stale URL, covering the runs API, artefact paths per run, and account and job identifiers. Use when an artefact download 404s or returns an error page. Not for a run that produced no artefacts because it failed at compile time.
Makes notebook diffs useful by ignoring volatile output noise (execution counts, timestamps, widget state) so real code changes stand out. Configures a structural diff instead of raw JSON diff. Not for diffs of notebook source logic that are genuinely large, and not for merge-conflict resolution.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's SBOM diff flagged 200 changes - all were hash-only and the security review was noise - enrichment agent matched companies by name only and merged two different acme corps
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's diff of two executed notebooks flagged only output noise: no re
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovers notebooks corrupted when the kernel was interrupted mid-write, leaving invalid JSON that will not open. Locates the JSON syntax break, repairs it, and restores from checkpoints when repair is not safe. Not for notebooks that fail nbformat validation for schema reasons, and not for merge conflicts in notebook …
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's regex corrupted notebook metadata on rewrite, json broke, rewrite failed - agent's nbformat write failed: invalid JSON, notebook won't open, parse error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent interrupted the kernel mid-write: notebook JSON corrupted
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes notebook saves that time out because widget state grew to tens of megabytes, by trimming saved widget state and stopping state bloat at the source. Not for slow saves caused by large cell outputs, and not for widgets that fail to render.
Breaks agents out of infinite retry loops on deterministic cell errors by classifying errors before retrying and enforcing a retry budget with backoff. Retries only transient failures. Not for cells that fail intermittently under load, and not for kernel crashes that need a restart policy.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent synced candidate notes to the ATS and overwrote the recruiter's manual edits - last-write-wins with no conflict... - jupytext --to py produced an empty file: paired formats out of sync
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's jupytext sync overwrote manual edits: paired-format race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Shrinks repositories bloated by committed executed notebooks carrying megabytes of outputs. Strips outputs before commit with pre-commit hooks or clean filters, and repairs history that already contains the bloat. Not for notebooks that are large because of source code, and not for output-stripping that breaks papermi…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent scheduled the notebook but the cron env had no ipykernel, execution failed - agent's scheduled run failed: different python than the notebook kernel, import error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's scheduled notebook push failed on hardcoded absolute paths,
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's nbformat write failed: invalid JSON, notebook won't open, parse error - notebook json parser failed on a trailing comma, json decode error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent failed to round-trip the notebook through jupytext, parse error
Problem outcome: unknown