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Fixes AWS IAM Access Analyzer runs that fail with a policy evaluation timeout by shrinking policy scope, splitting analyzers and retrying with a longer window. Use when an analyzer scan stalls on large accounts. Not for findings triage on a completed scan.
Fixes a pentest agent's concurrent scans overwriting each other's output files, by giving every run its own output directory and filename namespace. Use when parallel scans of authorized targets produce missing or interleaved results. Not for sequential runs, where reuse of a working file may be deliberate and documen…
Fixes a pentest agent reporting no vulnerabilities after parsing an empty nuclei JSONL as a clean result, by treating empty scanner output as a failed run until proven otherwise. Use when a report claims a clean target but the underlying nuclei output file is empty. Not for genuinely clean scans with a full output rec…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report - the scanner reported 2,300 new findings overnight after a base-image bump - the agent couldn't tell which were real
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reported no vulnerabilities after parsing an empty nuclei JSONL as clean
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent dropping findings when merging nuclei JSONL into a master report, by parsing JSONL line by line with error accounting and reconciling counts. Use when report totals are lower than the nuclei output contains for an authorized scan. Not for findings removed by documented false-positive triage.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent report builder failed on nuclei severity field missing from template output - [footnote text got merged into the operative clause - OCR dropped the separator line and the agent quoted the footn…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report
Problem outcome: unknown
Breaks a pentest agent loop that keeps re-running the same errored nuclei template, by recording template failures and excluding a failed template until it changes. Use when the agent log shows one template erroring repeatedly during an authorized scan. Not for templates that fire findings successfully, which are supp…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop: re-running the same dbt model after no-op changes - agent keeps re-running nuclei scan that already failed on authorized target
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent looped re-running the same nuclei template after it errored
Problem outcome: unknown
Diagnoses Safe Links URL scans timing out on large file share links, setting detonation limits and an explicit verdict for unscannable targets. Use when clicks on large shared files hang or fail after a scan timeout. Not for small file links that scan quickly but are blocked.
Fixes nuclei running out of file descriptors during a large authorized scan by raising the shell limit and cutting nuclei concurrency to match. Use when nuclei dies with too many open files partway through a big in-scope target list. Not for target-side connection refusals, which are a different failure.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - nuclei "too many open files" during large authorized scan - trufflehog: too many open files during filesystem scan - [trivy f…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: nuclei too many open files during large authorized scan
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - nuclei scan stuck at "loading templates" and never starts on authorized engagement - agent hit nuclei template rate limit mid-engagement and failed to retry
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: nuclei template rejected: missing info block on authorized engagement
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes nuclei running out of file descriptors during a large authorized scan by raising the shell limit and cutting nuclei concurrency to match. Use when nuclei dies with too many open files partway through a big in-scope target list. Not for target-side connection refusals, which are a different failure.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - trufflehog: too many open files during filesystem scan - trivy fs scan: "failed to walk directory: too many open files" on a huge repo
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: nuclei too many open files during large authorized scan
Problem outcome: unknown
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 - agent left 40 zombie kernel processes after a failed cleanup
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reported no vulnerabilities after parsing an empty nuclei JSONL as clean
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent report builder failed on nuclei severity field missing from template output - [footnote text got merged into the operative clause - OCR dropped the separator line and the agent quoted the footn…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop: re-running the same dbt model after no-op changes - agent keeps re-running nuclei scan that already failed on authorized target
Problem outcome: unknown