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Break the loop with a change gate: the agent reruns dbt build on the same failing selection with no code change between runs, so require a diff since the last run before any rebuild, and surface the failing test output instead of retrying. Use when an agent workflow that builds and tests dbt models and retries on fail…
Fixes environment-variable gaps between CI and prod for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent's fix works in CI but fails in prod on a missing env var. Not for code bugs that fail everywhere.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent failed over to the preview environment but preview secrets were never set, worker returned 500s - [agent's fix passed in isolation but failed in the full suite - a module-level cache leaked bet…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent fix passed ci but failed in prod: env var only set in ci
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes agent repairs applied to the wrong target for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent fixed staging but production still fails. Not for genuine environment differences in the fix itself.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent fixed the symptom in CI config but the test still fails on developers' machines - agent couldn't reproduce a failure because CI uses a different timezone and the test parsed a local date
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent misread the test failure: fixed staging, prod still broken
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Fixes unreproducible rendering bugs caused by browser version mismatch between the agent's sandbox and CI. Use when a visual or DOM test fails on CI but passes for the agent and browser versions differ. Covers matching the exact CI browser version, pinning browser versions in CI config, and treating version-specific r…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI - the bug was a rendering difference in the older version - [agent treated 2.0.0-rc.1 as newer than 2.0.0 - it auto-merged a release candidate to…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI — the
Problem outcome: unknown
Reproduces merge-queue-only failures by replicating merge-queue conditions: rebased onto the target, with sibling changes and realistic load. Use when an agent cannot reproduce a failure locally because it only happens in the merge queue. Not for failures that reproduce on a plain branch run, which are ordinary bugs, …
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
Stops an agent's green-local/red-CI loop by enforcing environment parity before any healing claim. It pins the base image, runtime version, env vars, and seeds, and requires the agent to verify inside the same container CI uses. Use when an agent insists tests pass locally while CI keeps failing. Not for failures that…
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
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's fix passed tests locally but broke the production dag order: deploy error - [playwright test kept timing out in CI but passed locally - the agent couldn't reproduce because it didn't know CI.…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's fix passed locally but introduced a new race in C
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent didn't know CI sets CI=true - the app disables animations in CI and the test's timing assumptions broke - [playwright test kept timing out in CI but passed locally - the agent couldn't reproduc…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent didn't know CI shards the suite — the failing test
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes unreproducible rendering bugs caused by browser version mismatch between the agent's sandbox and CI. Use when a visual or DOM test fails on CI but passes for the agent and browser versions differ. Covers matching the exact CI browser version, pinning browser versions in CI config, and treating version-specific r…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's alembic version is newer than the one that wrote the existing revisions - autogenerate produces different... - [agent saw waitForTimeout pass locally and fail in CI - it didn't know the CI ru…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reproduced locally with a newer browser than CI — the
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent said "flake" because the error changed every run, but it was actually an uninitialized random seed - [agent fixed a flaky test by adding cleanup, but the leak was in a different test that r…
Problem outcome: unknown