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Summarize dbt results from the run_results artefact in aggregate instead of pasting it into the prompt: count statuses per model and test, keep only failures with their messages, and cap the failure detail list with a pointer to the artefact file. Use when an agent reporting dbt test outcomes after a run. Not for one …
Fixes the blind spot after an agent disabled store_failures on tests, so failing rows were no longer captured and failures became undebuggable. Use when tests fail but no failures table exists to inspect. Not for environments where failures are captured by a different system on purpose.
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent couldn't tell which side of a go.sum conflict was newer, so it ran go mod tidy and committed the result blind - [agent reverted a security upgrade because tests failed and never re-attempted - …
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Public search query: agent couldn't tell which of 5 failing tests was the root cause
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent couldn't tell which side of a go.sum conflict was newer, so it ran go mod tidy and committed the result blind - [agent reverted a security upgrade because tests failed and never re-attempted - …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent couldn't tell which of 5 failing tests was the root cause
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the full suite instead of the affected tests: how to scope - agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining: policy fix
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Public search query: agent test selector ran the entire suite instead of the failing test
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Cannot log after tests are done. Did you forget to wait for something async in your test? - agent could not parse the globalprotect log: log format changed after client update
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Public search query: jest Cannot log after tests are done flake in CI — how t
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Diagnoses the surefire forked VM death in CI and finds the real cause. Use when the build fails with The forked VM terminated without properly saying goodbye. Covers inspecting surefire reports, checking fork heap settings, hunting System.exit calls, and rerunning a single fork with debug output. Not for normal test a…
Finds the hanging test behind a go test panic: test timed out in CI. Use when the suite panics after the timeout instead of finishing. Covers reading the goroutine dump for the test name, rerunning with a short timeout and verbose output, and identifying the blocked goroutine. Not for slow-but-finishing suites or comp…
Diagnoses vitest runs that report zero test files in CI while finding them locally. Use when the run exits with No test files found only in CI. Covers logging the working directory and resolved include globs, checking the checkout for sparse or missing files, and fixing the config root or the workflow working director…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent quarantined every test in the file that failed instead of finding the one broken test polluting the rest - [agent added cleanup to the victim test instead of the polluter - the leak still hi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
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Handles k6 threshold breaches that abort CI runs, deciding deliberately whether the build should fail. Use when a k6 run exits non-zero on thresholds and CI goes red. Not for k6 script errors or infrastructure failures.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Browse.ai Bulk Run handles 50,000 URLs at once - and the Monitor robot tracks page changes on schedule - [Browse.ai Bulk Run handles 50,000 URLs at once - and the Monitor robot tracks page changes on…
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Public search query: k6 thresholds breached aborting CI run: how to handle
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Fixes playwright 'Target crashed' failures in CI. Use when the browser process dies mid-suite. Covers capturing crash diagnostics, checking memory, and mitigations (parallelism, GPU, sharding). Not for test-assertion failures.
Makes Maven Surefire honor flaky-test retries instead of failing the build on first failure. Use when you have a flaky annotation or rerun config that Surefire ignores. Not for TestNG suites or for tests that fail consistently.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent didn't know CI sets CI=true - the app disables animations in CI and the test's timing assumptions broke - [playwright test kept timing out in CI but passed locally - the agent couldn't reproduc…
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Public search query: agent didn't know CI shards the suite — the failing test
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Stops agents from re-running failing dbt tests without changes: the tests are deterministic, so the loop is pure waste. Use when an agent re-runs the same failing tests repeatedly. Not for tests re-run after a fix.
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.