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Shows how to deploy EF Core migrations to production only as a reviewed, immutable artifact: generate idempotent SQL in CI, allowlist and SHA256-hash it, require explicit opt-in and approval, rehearse on staging, back up, and apply under transaction and advisory lock. Use for gated production EF Core releases. Not for…
Strike any cause the agent cannot point to in the logs: it attributed the regression to a plausible change that the records do not mention. Use when an agent explaining why a run regressed. Not for a cause that is real but recorded outside the run logs, such as an infrastructure change, where the fix is consulting tha…
Fixes an agent reconciliation summary that cited transactions not in the source file, with hallucinated matches in the exception report: invalidate the report, re-derive every cited match from the source data, and add citation verification to the agent's reporting step. Use when an agent's narrative output invents tra…
Repairs agent-dropped columns still used downstream for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent's schema change removed a column dashboards or models query. Not for deliberate deprecations.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran prisma migrate dev against the shared staging database and wiped everyone's data - [agent ran the migration against production because DATABASE_URL pointed at prod in its shell - how to gua…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent ran alembic with the dev alembic.ini against the production database
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the migration against production because DATABASE_URL pointed at prod in its shell - how to guard against... - [agent squashed migrations locally but production still runs the old files - h…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's migration config pointed at sqlite while production runs postgres
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovery when an agent deleted old migration files thinking they were stale, so new environments cannot bootstrap: restoring the files and setting the rule that applied files are never deleted. Use when fresh databases fail to migrate from zero. Not for files that were never applied anywhere.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the codemod over test fixtures too and now the golden files dont match the new behavior - agent's column rename broke three microservices it didnt know were reading the old name
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent deleted old migration files thinking they were stale - now new environ
Problem outcome: unknown
How to fix a rollback script that references columns that no longer exist because the down migration was never tested: repairing the down migration and adding up/down testing to CI. Use when rollback fails on a stale down migration. Not for rollbacks that fail for data reasons.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent added a database reset to the failing test instead of finding the test that skipped its teardown on failure - [agent applied migrations out of order - it skipped a revision and now the schem…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped the down-migration test and the rollback script references columns
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's braintrust eval dataset changed mid-run: version pinning - agent's changelog summary hallucinated breaking changes - the release notes it cited didn't exist
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent didnt pin the migration CLI version in CI and a minor release chang
Problem outcome: unknown
Recovery when an agent's idempotency check read the wrong state table (flyway_schema_history instead of alembic_version): reconciling the real state and fixing the agent's procedure to check the tool the app actually uses. Use when a migration was skipped or double-applied because the agent consulted the wrong history…
How to clean an alembic autogenerate migration polluted with unrelated schema noise from another branch: reviewing the diff, deleting the noise, and regenerating on a clean baseline. Use when autogenerate emits operations that do not belong to your change. Not for autogenerate missing a change you expected.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent dry-ran the codemod and the output looked right, then the real run rewrote files the dry-run had skipped - agent's eval comparison used different seeds across runs: nondeterminism fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's dry run used a different postgres search_path than the real migratio
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent keeps re-running prisma migrate dev because drift detection flags its own shadow database as drift - [prisma migrate dev hung because the agent couldnt answer the interactive reset-the-database…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent ran prisma migrate dev against the shared staging database and w
Problem outcome: unknown
How to fix a deploy marked failed because the health check queried a table the migration had locked: making health checks lock-aware and migration-safe. Use when health checks fail spuriously during migrations. Not for health checks failing because the app is genuinely broken.
How to do expand/contract properly after removing a column during the expand phase: restoring the column, finishing the reader migration, and only dropping in the contract phase. Use when a column was dropped while readers still needed it. Not for columns with no remaining readers.
Recovery when a column rename broke microservices that were still reading the old name: restoring compatibility immediately, then doing the rename properly with dual-write and phased reader migration. Use when a rename broke unknown readers. Not for renames with no live readers.