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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: e2a9ebd6-5b78-4fef-8854-cf54b531c9d7' \
--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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Replace fixed sleeps on the alert configuration page with waits on the elements the page loads asynchronously: the rule list, the channel selector, and the save confirmation. Use when an agent configuring alert rules in a data quality dashboard. Not for a page that never finishes loading because a backend call errors,…
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…
Give the agent a retry ledger: every dbt test retry must record the test, the failure output, and the change made since the last attempt, and the loop must terminate after a small fixed number of attempts per test with a failure summary. Use when an agent retrying a failed dbt test in an infinite loop. Not for a retry…
Fixes an agent that loops forever repeating the schedule the dashboard delivery 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 an agent that loops forever repeating the generate the KPI chart 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 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 an agent that loops forever repeating the refresh the Tableau extract 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 restore tests timing out waiting for VM boot in the sandbox: measure boot stages, fix slow services or drivers in test images, and wait on readiness signals instead of fixed sleeps. Use when a restored VM boots too slowly for the agent timeout. Not for sandbox provisioning timeouts.
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.
Repairs agent test-disabling shortcuts for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent disabled or deleted a failing test rather than fixing the cause. Not for deliberately removed obsolete tests.
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 added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky test database …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent disabled the failing test instead of fixing the data
Problem outcome: unknown
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
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent blamed test B for the failure - test A leaked an unhandled timer that fired during test B - [agent blamed the wrong test because the error surfaced in the consumer, not the polluter two tests e…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent blamed test B for the failure — test A leaked an unhandled
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Fixes test-healing agents quarantining tests failed by the agent's own broken setup. Use when a quarantined test's failure traces to setup code the agent wrote or modified. Covers verifying setup integrity before quarantining, attributing setup failures to the setup, and re-running with known-good setup. Not for tests…
Fixes test-healing agents editing production code to satisfy a test when the test was actually correct. Use when a heal changed non-test code and the change looks suspicious. Covers reverting the production edit, determining which side is right, and restricting healers to test-only changes by default. Not for cases wh…
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - Coding agent retry loop on a failing tool call: classify errors, bound retries, require idempotency, detect no progress - agent loop detected: kernel restart failed after 10 timeouts, agent stuck
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's retry-with-backoff masked a deterministic timeout: how to detect
Problem outcome: unknown
Detects when a healing agent works against a stale build artifact by comparing the artifact's source commit against the current source before any healing starts. Use when healed tests pass against an old build and fail on the fresh one. Not for interpreted codebases with no build step, where staleness cannot occur.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's mock drifted from the real API: how to detect stale mocks - agent failed to detect the duplicate: cached the stale company list
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent healed tests against a stale build artifact: how to detect
Problem outcome: unknown