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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 --upgrade runs that broke pinned dbt packages for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when dbt deps --upgrade moved packages off their pins. Not for registry outages or git auth issues.
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 pinned an old axe version: missed rules the ci gate caught Applies when your scan flags this exact rule. Not for manual-only issues the rule does not report.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cargo update hit one "failed to download" and never retried, so it pinned the old version permanently - agent broke the audit ruleset while patching a policy threshold
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent pinned an old axe version: missed rules the ci gate caught
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - grype ignore rules did nothing - the agent wrote v1 ignore syntax but grype expects the v2 schema - [the agent's suppression file wasn't honored after a trivy version upgrade - ignored CVEs came back…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent's ignore rule expired silently and 300 suppressed CVEs flooded b
Problem outcome: unknown
Use when a dependabot security PR that is really a major bump got auto-merged and broke things. Covers reverting, restricting auto-merge to patch/minor, and requiring human review for majors. Not for patch-level security bumps that merge cleanly.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent rightsized the Kubernetes nodes - it measured node CPU and missed that the cluster autoscaler was keeping... - [the agent auto-closed 500 "fixed" findings that were actually scanner misses - th…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent auto-approved a security PR from dependabot that was actually a
Problem outcome: unknown
Stops an agent from burning the GitHub API quota polling registry metadata. Use it when the changelog step dies partway with rate-limit errors. Key trigger: the logs show rate-limit responses and the agent made one API call per package. Not for: quota burned by CI or other tools, which needs org-level quota management.
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version - the build failed on 'version X has been yanked' - agent failed to detect the policy violation: cached the old policy version
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's rollback PR failed — the old version had been yank
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent bumped a devDependency into the published package because the dep was misclassified - the tarball now ships jest - [agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of main - the …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent's remediation PR bumped the devDependency instead of the prod
Problem outcome: unknown
Stops an agent from treating a release candidate as newer than the stable release. Use it when 2.0.0-rc.1 was auto-merged to production ahead of 2.0.0. Key trigger: the merged version contains a prerelease tag while a stable release exists. Not for: deliberately testing a release candidate, which should happen on a no…
Tightens a too-loose engines field so CI installs a supported Node. Use it when CI installed Node 16 and the new dependency requires Node 18. Key trigger: the engines range admits a Node version the dependency dropped. Not for: a genuinely supported older Node failing for other reasons, like a missing system library.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's upgrade matrix tested 48 combos across node 16/18/20 and four package versions - CI took 6 hours and timed out - [Realtime agent goes silent after tool calls: set initial_model_settings on .r…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent set the engines field too loose — CI installed node 16 a
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's poetry update ignored the python constraint in pyproject.toml - it installed a wheel requiring python 3.12 on... - [pip ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyproject.toml-based projects after p…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's poetry update ignored the python constraint in pyproject.toml —
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - pip ERROR: Could not build wheels for pyproject.toml-based projects after python upgrade - salesforce INVALID_FIELD_FOR_INSERT_UPDATE - agent writes to a formula field on lead create
Problem outcome: unknown