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Fixes the cy.intercept() could not find a matching request flake in CI. Use when intercepts intermittently fail to match in CI. Covers registering the intercept before the triggering action, verifying the route matcher, and waiting on the alias. Not for intercepts that never match anywhere.
Extracts the real error hidden behind a Cypress before-all hook failure. Use when the output says Because this error occurred during a 'before all' hook without showing the cause. Covers running the hook body standalone, adding logging, and reading browser console artifacts. Not for hook timeouts or test-body failures.
Fixes Playwright hidden-state timeouts where the element never hides in CI. Use when waiting for locator to be hidden times out only in CI. Covers screenshotting the actual state, finding the condition that should hide the element, and waiting on the underlying cause. Not for elements hidden everywhere.
Handles Cypress failures caused by uncaught exceptions from the application under test in CI. Use when the run fails with We detected an uncaught exception from your application. Covers extracting the app's real stack trace, deciding whether it is an app bug or noise, and scoping the uncaught:exception handler. Not fo…
Debugs the Cypress automation client disconnected flake in CI. Use when runs intermittently die with The automation client disconnected. Covers rerunning with debug logging, checking container memory pressure, disabling the GPU, and pinning the browser version. Not for consistent disconnects on a single spec.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - AWS "InvalidClientTokenId" in automation: credential chain debugging - Debugging browser automation that passes locally but flakes in CI: working checklist
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Public search query: cypress The automation client disconnected flake in CI — how to debug
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky test database - the suite now takes twice as long - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries
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Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent verified the upgrade by running only the package's own test suite - 30 downstream tests broke after merge - cypress run exits with code 1 but tests pass locally
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Public search query: cypress-grep only running tagged tests locally: how to fix
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - cypress network stub delay causing defaultCommandTimeout: how to fix - cypress fixture file not found: how to fix - [cypress …
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Public search query: cypress network stub delay causing defaultCommandTimeout: how to fix
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries - agent marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leaked the state
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Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - cypress fixture file not found: how to fix - cypress intercept vs stub: when to use each - [Earthly is not respecting proxy v…
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Public search query: cypress network stub delay causing defaultCommandTimeout: how to fix
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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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent closed a failing test as "flaky" because it passed on retry, but the retry ran with a warm cache - [test-healing agent marked a real regression as flaky - the test failed 3 times in a row but w…
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Public search query: test-healing agent marked a passing-on-retry test as flaky — the retry
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Caps the time an agent may spend re-running a single flaky test with a retry budget (max attempts times per-attempt timeout) plus quarantine-on-exhaustion. Use when an agent grinds on one test instead of escalating. Not for human-led debugging sessions or suites that are uniformly slow.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent marked a flaky test as fixed after one green run: how to verify - agent marked a test flaky after one green rerun - what minimum evidence is needed before calling it a flake
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Public search query: agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries
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Fixes the Selenium 'stale element reference' flake that appears under CI load when the DOM changes between finding an element and acting on it. Shows how to re-locate elements inside a retry loop with explicit waits instead of reusing stored references. Use when Selenium tests flake in CI with stale element errors but…
Finds the slow hook behind mocha's 'Timeout of 2000ms exceeded' errors that appear only when the full suite runs in CI. Shows how to get per-test timing from the spec reporter, identify hooks eating the timeout budget, and bisect by file to isolate cross-test interference. Use when a mocha test times out in the full C…