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Use when a dependabot security PR that is really a major bump got auto-merged and broke things. Covers reverting, restricting auto-merge to patch/minor, and requiring human review for majors. Not for patch-level security bumps that merge cleanly.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent rightsized the Kubernetes nodes - it measured node CPU and missed that the cluster autoscaler was keeping... - [the agent auto-closed 500 "fixed" findings that were actually scanner misses - th…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent auto-approved a security PR from dependabot that was actually a
Problem outcome: unknown
Use when a fix PR touched the wrong dependency scope and the finding survives. Covers mapping findings to the exact manifest path, reverting the wrong bump, and gating security PRs on rescan clearance. Not for version-resolution failures.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent bumped a devDependency into the published package because the dep was misclassified - the tarball now ships jest - [agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of main - the …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent's remediation PR bumped the devDependency instead of the prod
Problem outcome: unknown
Stops pointless bumps driven by already-fixed CVE citations. Use it when an upgrade PR justifies itself with a CVE that your pinned version is not actually affected by. Key trigger: the advisory's fixed-in version is at or below your pinned version. Not for: a CVE that genuinely affects your pinned version, which dese…
Use when an agent ran npm audit fix --force unattended and the resulting PR is too big to review. Covers reverting, replacing --force with targeted fixes, and gating security PRs on blast-radius limits. Not for a single failing npm install or for manual audit-fix workflows.
Re-attempts a reverted security upgrade instead of leaving the CVE open. Use it when a security bump was reverted for failing tests and no follow-up was scheduled. Key trigger: the CVE is still open in your scanner while the upgrade PR shows as reverted. Not for: a revert of a non-security bump, which can wait for the…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the scanner reported 2,300 new findings overnight after a base-image bump - the agent couldn't tell which were real - [the grouped security-update PR failed CI with 200 changed files - the agent coul…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's dependency-dashboard PR grew to 300 files — operators could
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovers from npm audit fix dying mid-run with ERESOLVE: restoring the lockfile from git, reinstalling clean, and applying the security fixes one package at a time instead of letting audit fix rewrite the tree blindly. Use when audit fix breaks the tree with peer-dependency conflicts. Not for ERESOLVE on plain npm ins…
Explains why osv-scanner --recursive comes back empty on yarn v4 (berry) monorepos: the v4 lockfile format is not parsed, so the scan silently covers nothing. Covers scanning package.json manifests explicitly and confirming parsed counts. Use when osv-scanner finds nothing in a yarn berry repo. Not for genuinely clean…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - osv-scanner hung for 30 minutes on a pnpm monorepo lockfile the agent generated mid-run - osv-scanner: "failed: no package sources found in ." when run from a subdirectory
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: osv-scanner --recursive found nothing in a yarn v4 monorepo - the v
Problem outcome: unknown
Handles dependabot PRs that bump into a known-vulnerable version: the advisory database had not yet marked that version when dependabot chose it. Covers verifying against the advisory, pinning past the bad version, and landing the real fix. Use when a dependabot PR targets a CVE-affected version. Not for dependabot re…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - dependabot-style agent opened one PR per patch version: 30 PRs in a day, the CI queue choked and maintainers... - [agent ignored the deprecation warnings in npm output and missed that the package was…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: dependabot opened a PR bumping a package to a version that already had
Problem outcome: unknown
Shows how to reconcile different vulnerability counts from npm audit and snyk on the same package.json. Use it when two scanners disagree on how many vulnerabilities a Node project has. Key trigger: npm audit and snyk reporting different counts for the same manifest.
Fixes SBOM scope gaps by including dev dependencies the scanner needs. Use when SBOMs miss flagged components. Key trigger: scanner findings absent from the SBOM.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - grype flagged CVEs in test fixtures and devDependencies - the agent's severity queue was 80 percent noise - [the agent marked a CVE fixed, but the rescan still flagged it - the patch bumped the wrong…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's SBOM omitted dev dependencies the scanner flagged: scope fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Prevents lockfile merges from reintroducing patched CVEs with post-merge scanning. Use when merges resurrect vulnerabilities. Key trigger: a patched CVE reappearing after merge.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - snyk and dependabot both opened PRs for the same lodash CVE - the agent merged both and the lockfile broke - [the patch PR's CI failed on the agent's own scanner gate - the fix introduced a new CVE i…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's dependency-bump PR reintroduced a patched CVE via lockfile merge
Problem outcome: unknown