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Throttle the comparison to the API allowance: the Azure ML API throttled the run comparison because the agent requested history for many runs at once, so fetch run details sequentially with paging, cache responses, and compare from the cache. Use when an agent workflow comparing Azure ML runs through the API. Not for …
Pace histogram fetches like the heavy reads they are: histograms cost more than metadata on the API, so an agent fetching them run by run in a burst trips the limit mid-comparison. Use when an agent comparing runs through their W and B histograms. Not for a comparison needing histograms for hundreds of runs, where the…
Keeps an agent from crashing on a repo with 1M secrets-scan findings: aggregate and sample, never load all. Use when finding volume crashes agents. Not for scan errors.
Stops a data agent from timing out on full table scans by making sample-then-scan the default: explore on a sample, derive tight filters, and only then touch the full table with filters pushed down. Use when agent queries time out on large tables, when exploratory questions scan everything, or when warehouse bills spi…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's duplicate-query detector tripped on prepared statements with different bind params logged as separate queries - [agent's entra sign-in log query returned zero results: time-range parsing bug]…
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Public search query: agent's log query returned sampled data without saying so: how to detect
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's load test hit the rate limiter and reported 'p99 of 60s' -- it was measuring the backoff, not the endpoint - [agent reported a 95% cache hit rate but measured it during the deploy window when…
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Public search query: agent's CSP report-uri endpoint flooded: report sampling setup
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Diagnoses an agent's notebook run that crashes or differs from the interactive run: environment, order, and state differences between the two. For agent builders.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's eBPF profiler attributed kernel time to the wrong container on a shared host - [agent's load test hit the rate limiter and reported 'p99 of 60s' -- it was measuring the backoff, not the endpo…
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Public search query: agent's eBPF profiler dropped events under load and reported no hotspots
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Excludes profiler overhead from CPU analysis by measuring with and without the profiler. Use when reported CPU does not match application work. Key trigger: high CPU that vanishes when the profiler stops.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting on its own canary worker: CPU time limit hit mid load test, canary failed - agent's trace sampling was head-based and dropped the exact traces that contained the timeout
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Public search query: agent flagged high CPU that turned out to be its own sampling thread
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent blamed the database but the latency was in connection acquisition, not query execution - [agent measured cache hits on the CDN edge but the origin was melting -- the hit rate hid the origin lat…
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Public search query: agent optimized for throughput when the SLO was latency
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent sampled 1% of requests and missed the slow endpoint entirely -- it only fires on 0.1% of traffic - [agent sampled only successful requests and concluded the endpoint was fast -- the timeouts we…
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Public search query: agent's trace counted retries as separate slow requests - the p99 was
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Rebuilds differential flame graphs from matched workloads only. Use when a differential view shows nonsense deltas. Key trigger: a differential flame graph with inexplicable red/blue everywhere.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent compared flame graphs captured at different sampling rates - agent merged two different providers' docs - the generated client sends Stripe-style ids to a non-Stripe API
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Public search query: agent's differential flame graph compared two different workloads
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Normalizes flame graph comparisons to identical sampling rates and durations. Use when two flame graphs tell conflicting stories. Key trigger: flame graphs compared across different capture settings.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent forgot JVM warmup in the benchmark - the JIT compiled mid-test and skewed results - agent ran a latency benchmark with Nagle's algorithm on and measured TCP buffering as app latency
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Public search query: agent forgot to disable CPU frequency scaling during the benchmark -
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent profiled with debug symbols on and optimized-away hot paths looked cold - agent invented an X-API-Version header - the API versions via URL path and the header did nothing for a week
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