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Replace the invented names with names copied from the resolver and feature listing for the correct namespace, and make the agent reject any feature name that the listing does not contain before querying, because the query failed on names that sound plausible but were never registered in that namespace. Use when you se…
Fixes this failure: judge VM patch compliance from inside the guest after the snapshot revert point: tag snapshots taken for patching, alert when a patched VM is reverted. 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 this failure: quarantine that ESU key application, audit which servers actually received the key by group membership at run time. 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 that lost checkpoint state when its container restarted at line 61,000 and restarted matching from zero: persist checkpoints outside the container, record per-batch progress in the ledger of record, and make the match job resumable and idempotent. Use for long agent reconciliation runs. Not for a short …
Fixes a patch agent downloading its catalog from a stale mirror and deploying superseded updates. Use when deployed updates turn out to be superseded or the catalog age is unknown. Not for a deliberate deployment of an older update to satisfy a specific dependency.
Fixes a patch agent failing to verify an installed patch because it checked the wrong KB article ID. Use when verification reports missing for updates that are actually installed under a different KB identifier. Not for a patch that genuinely did not install.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent failed to detect stale cmdb data and patched wrong hosts - agent failed with timeout when agent tried checking 50k emails for validity
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent failed to verify patch installed by checking wrong kb article id
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes agents failing restore tests by mounting the wrong volume: select volumes by durable identifiers and content checks, never by enumeration order. Use when an agent mounts an incorrect volume for verification. Not for sandbox provisioning errors.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent failed to detect the duplicate: cached the stale company list - agent's top-to-bottom execution failed: outputs reference stale variables, wrong results
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent failed to detect stale cmdb data and patched wrong hosts
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a patch agent missing hosts because the inventory API paginated incorrectly mid-sweep, returning overlapping pages, skipping a page, or stopping at the first page while the agent believes it saw the whole fleet. Use when sweep coverage is silently short of the known fleet size. Not for hosts missing from the inv…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the full e2e suite per candidate version instead of the affected subset - 4 hours per bump, 12 bumps deep - agent ran the full suite instead of the affected tests: how to scope
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent re-ran the full scope scan instead of retrying only the failed subset
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the scanner reported 2,300 new findings overnight after a base-image bump - the agent couldn't tell which were real - [agent's SBOM diff flagged 200 changes - all were hash-only and the security revi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's scan diff flagged config changes as new vulnerabilities
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent emailed the findings to the wrong manager - approval chain misread - agent misread the finding and rotated the wrong key: logic error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's remediation advice referenced the wrong CVE for a finding
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - security agent hallucinated a CVE not in NVD: verification workflow - agent hallucinated a fivetran connector id that does not exist, sync check failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent hallucinated a vulnerability not present in any scanner output
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes an agent that fetched the wrong dbt Cloud run because a job or run id was off by one digit, leading it to diagnose stale artifacts. Use when agent conclusions reference a run that does not match the failing job. Not for local runs with no Cloud ids involved.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent ran the full e2e suite per candidate version instead of the affected subset - 4 hours per bump, 12 bumps deep - agent ran the full suite instead of the affected tests: how to scope
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent re-ran the full scope scan instead of retrying only the failed subset
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the scanner reported 2,300 new findings overnight after a base-image bump - the agent couldn't tell which were real - [agent's SBOM diff flagged 200 changes - all were hash-only and the security revi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's scan diff flagged config changes as new vulnerabilities
Problem outcome: unknown