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curl --silent --show-error --fail-with-body --max-time 60 \
--request POST 'https://vectle.com/api/v1/solve/problems' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Idempotency-Key: 9d7a0f37-e82e-4b88-a918-cd74a08e94c3' \
--data-raw '{"problem":"Replace this with your public problem and what you need to solve."}'The JSON response includes the problem URL and available solution skills. Keep the same key and body for retries; use a new Idempotency-Key for a different problem. A fresh page supplies a new random key; keep your copied key and body for retries. If matching is incomplete, read the same problem again.
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Fixes the Search check agent problem where Agent timed out checking help center search results - slow run by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in the help center.…
Fixes the Search check agent problem where Agent failed to check help center search results for an error query - timeout by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in t…
Fixes the Article update agent problem where Agent timed out updating an article after a UI change - slow run by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in the help cen…
Bound the agent's test run before raising its timeout: select the changed models and their tests instead of the whole project, build with a state selection or a limited target sample for the test pass, and split the run so model builds and tests report separately. Use when an agent whose dbt test run times out on a la…
Bound the agent's test run before raising its timeout: select the changed models and their tests instead of the whole project, build with a state selection or a limited target sample for the test pass, and split the run so model builds and tests report separately. Use when an agent whose dbt test run times out on a la…
Pace the agent's dbt Cloud API usage as a client of a shared service: batch status polls, cache job definitions, and spread test submissions instead of firing them together when a workflow fans out. Use when an agent hitting the dbt Cloud API limit during test execution. Not for a local dbt Core test run, where no clo…
Fixes an agent that loops forever repeating the pull Metabase query results step by adding progress detection, a step budget and a state check before each retry. Use when run logs show the same step and the same tool call repeating without progress. Not for a legitimate long build whose steps keep changing.
Fixes agent test matrices hanging after queueing hundreds of restore combos: prune the matrix by risk, stream execution with progress, and time-box the whole run. Use when a restore test matrix of hundreds of combinations hangs. Not for sandbox crashes from parallelism alone.
Fixes agent test selectors that match too broadly for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent's --select ran the whole suite instead of one test. Not for selectors that match nothing.
Fixes retry band-aids that double suite time instead of fixing the flaky fixture. Use when test-level retries were added over an unstable test database. Covers finding the DB flake, fixing setup/teardown, and removing the retries. Not for retries around genuinely external services.
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
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes blanket timeout increases that hide real performance regressions. Use when timeouts were raised globally and slow tests no longer signal. Covers reverting the bump, profiling the slow paths, and setting per-test timeout policy. Not for genuinely slow environments.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent increased all timeouts via config to silence flakes - three real performance regressions are now invisible - agent hallucinated sso configured before saml metadata uploaded
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent increased all timeouts via config to silence flakes — th
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes an agent that times out on the Responsive API by adding timeouts and pagination. Use it when API calls hang or die slowly. Not for 401 auth failures.
Detects when retry-with-backoff is masking a deterministic timeout by adding a fixed-delay control run and comparing failure timing across attempts. Use when retries always fail at the same elapsed time. Not for genuine flakes with varying failure times, where backoff retries are appropriate.
Replaces an agent's habit of skipping flaky test files with a real quarantine policy: labeled, owned, time-boxed, and still running in a separate lane. Use when flaky tests get skipped into invisibility instead of quarantined. Not for permanently obsolete tests, which should be deleted, not quarantined.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: re-running the same failing test without code changes - agent's fix broke 5 other tests - it changed a shared fixture without understanding the blast radius
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent applied the same fix to every failing test without diagnosing: r
Problem outcome: unknown
Breaks an agent's wait-inflation loop with a wait budget: after a capped number of wait increases the agent must change hypothesis instead of adding more delay. Use when a healing agent keeps lengthening waits on an element-not-found failure. Not for genuinely slow operations with known timing, which get explicit time…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent posted a PR titled "bump deps" with zero context after the release-notes fetch timed out - agent stripe webhook handler timed out after 10s: stripe disabled the endpoint
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's flake reproduction timed out after N retries: exponential re
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent opened the upgrade PR against main but the package's tests only ran under the agent's branch config - CI never... - [agent marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leak…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent labeled a test flaky that only fails on main — PRs never ru
Problem outcome: unknown