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Fix this in Help Scout Docs by search draft collections from the agent preview instead of the public index, and if readers need those articles, publish the collection and request a reindex rather than expecting public search to surface drafts. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents working in the help ce…
Fixes agent failed to complete the job to search systems for a requester's personal data in the work covered by this query by taking the specific step below first. Use when this exact failure blocks collection, review, or fulfilment. Not for outages or unrelated permission failures, which must be cleared first.
Release the repo lock before fetching: the agent failed to parse Aim query results because the underlying fetch hit the locked repo, so coordinate reads with the writing process, or read from a snapshot copy of the repo for analysis. Use when an agent workflow analysing Aim runs while training jobs write to the same r…
Fixes this failure: make the agent post to the private timeline by default and require an explicit public flag for any external update. Use when the exact error or symptom in the title appears. Not for a different error, tool, or a manual process with no such failure.
Fixes an agent run that fails parsing the IAM policy JSON with comments during access review work, by diagnosing the file structure, quarantining bad records and validating parsed output against source counts. Use when parsing, not the platform API, is what breaks the run. Not for files that parse cleanly but contain …
Fixes GraphQL 'query complexity limit exceeded' errors when an agent fetches all review threads on a PR. Use it when a single big threads query is rejected for being too expensive. Key trigger: the complexity-limit error on a review-threads query.
Fixes agents reviewing closed PRs by checking PR state before posting. Use when the agent posts to merged/closed PRs. Not for reviews posted before close.
Fixes review agents losing state on mid-review rebases by keying state to the commit SHA. Use when a rebase wipes the agent's progress. Not for force-pushes without rebase.
Fixes review agents missing the last page of files by looping pagination correctly. Use when the agent's file list is short by one page. Not for wrong-file bugs.
Fixes review agents reviewing the base branch instead of the PR head by fetching the correct ref. Use when the review discusses code not in the PR. Not for stale-head reviews.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to read the base branch: reviewed main-to-feature instead of feature-to-main: how to fix - [dependabot: update failed with "reference already exists" - the agent's rebase loop kee…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reviewed the base branch instead of the head ref
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents hallucinating files in summaries by grounding the summary in the actual diff file list. Use when the summary names files the PR never touched. Not for wrong-line attributions.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - code review agent froze mid-annotation on a minified bundle diff - code review agent hallucinating vulnerabilities that are not in the diff
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent review summary listed files not in the diff: hallucination
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents commenting on the wrong PR due to pagination indexing bugs. Use when agent comments land on a different PR than intended. Not for comments on the right PR but wrong lines.
Fixes review agents summarizing the merge commit by diffing base against head. Use when the summary describes base-branch changes. Not for summaries of the wrong PR.
Fixes review-agent queue starvation by adding aging to the priority scheme. Use when old PRs never get reviewed while new ones jump ahead. Not for queues that are simply overloaded.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting for the pages build queue: preview build stalled for 30 minutes - [linkedin 'you have reached the weekly invitation limit' - agent's connection step blocked with no queue for …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent review queue starved: oldest PR never reached, priority inversion
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents degrading to plain comments by granting the token write scope or documenting the limitation. Use when the agent cannot submit formal reviews. Not for agents with write access.
Fixes: agent remediation conflicted with a teammate concurrent edits Applies when your scan flags this exact rule. Not for manual-only issues the rule does not report.
Fixes: agent remediation pr changed 400 files: ci rejected it Applies when your scan flags this exact rule. Not for manual-only issues the rule does not report.
Use when a fix PR touched the wrong dependency scope and the finding survives. Covers mapping findings to the exact manifest path, reverting the wrong bump, and gating security PRs on rescan clearance. Not for version-resolution failures.
Shrinks an upgrade PR that accidentally committed node_modules. Use it when a dependency PR shows tens of thousands of files. Key trigger: the PR diff is dominated by node_modules paths. Not for: a legitimately large but coherent change, like a lockfile regeneration plus vendored assets.