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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 the triage problem where an agent cannot tell which of several failing tests is the root cause and which are downstream symptoms. Use when a build reports many test failures at once. Not for a single failing test.
Fixes an agent stuck looping dbt test on the same failing test many times without changing anything between runs. Use when automation repeats identical test invocations. Not for a single manual rerun to confirm flakiness.
Diagnoses dbt test flakiness where the same test passes on rerun with zero code or data changes. Use when a test flips between pass and fail across identical runs. Not for tests that fail consistently on real bad data.
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 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: - 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
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent called it flaky because the error differed per run - it was actually locale-dependent date formatting - [the agent said "flake" because the error changed every run, but it was actually an unini…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent called it flaky because the error differed per run — it was
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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: - my agent quarantined every test in the file that failed instead of finding the one broken test polluting the rest - [agent added cleanup to the victim test instead of the polluter - the leak still hi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
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Enforces single-variable discipline on flaky-test bisection so an agent cannot change two things at once and declare the result inconclusive-proof. Use when bisect results are muddy because the agent varied multiple factors per run. Not for exploratory debugging where the goal is a quick hypothesis, not a controlled e…
Bounds a flake-reproduction loop with an explicit retry budget: capped attempts, exponential backoff with a ceiling, and automatic escalation to quarantine when the budget is exhausted. Use when an agent burns hours retrying a reproduction that never converges. Not for deterministic failures, which should fail fast on…
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
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Fixes nondeterministic eval comparisons by pinning random seeds, running each variant multiple times, and comparing distributions instead of single runs. Use when an agent's A/B eval conclusions flip between runs or seeds differ across compared runs. Not for deterministic unit-test flakes, which are a test-isolation p…
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…
Fixes main-only failures mislabeled as flaky. Use when a test fails on main but PRs never exercise it. Covers confirming the coverage gap, bisecting the merge range, and fixing the regression. Not for tests that fail on PRs too.
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 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
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
Problem outcome: unknown