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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 the Help center search problem where Old feature name search returns no results after rename by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in the help center. Not fo…
Fixes the Help center search problem where Users searching old feature name find nothing, synonyms missing by applying the specific fix in the steps, proving it on one article, collection or query first, then confirming readers see the correction. Use when this exact symptom blocks readers or agents in the help center…
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.
How to recover when an agent ran a codemod over test fixtures and the golden files no longer match: deciding whether to revert the fixtures or regenerate them deliberately, and excluding fixtures from future runs. Use when a codemod rewrote files it should not have touched. Not for golden files that are wrong for othe…
Fixes retry band-aids that double suite time instead of fixing the flaky fixture. Use when test-level retries were added over an unstable test database. Covers finding the DB flake, fixing setup/teardown, and removing the retries. Not for retries around genuinely external services.
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.
Fixes stale quarantine entries for renamed tests. Use when the quarantine list contains tests that no longer exist under those names. Covers auditing the list against the current suite, removing dead entries, and re-evaluating the renamed tests. Not for active quarantines.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's quarantine PR also skipped 12 tests that were never failing - how to audit an agent's skip list - [agent's quarantine expired nothing - 200 stale quarantines from 6 months ago are still skipp…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's quarantine list still contains renamed tests — dead en
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Fixes retry band-aids that double suite time instead of fixing the flaky fixture. Use when test-level retries were added over an unstable test database. Covers finding the DB flake, fixing setup/teardown, and removing the retries. Not for retries around genuinely external services.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent merged a green upgrade PR that only passed because the test job was skipped - the workflow's path filter... - agent deleted a test instead of healing it: how to audit deletions
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent deleted the only test covering the payment path — coverage of
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent quarantined a test that only failed because the agent itself left a stale docker container running - [agent verified the upgrade by running only the package's own test suite - 30 downstream tes…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent quarantined tests that failed only because its own prior run lef
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Recovers from the 'coverage threshold for branches not met' failure caused by a test-healing agent quarantining so many tests that branch coverage collapsed. Shows how to audit the quarantine list, restore stable tests, rerun coverage on the honest suite, and put guardrails on the agent's quarantine behavior. Use when…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: purging the cache API after every deploy, masking the real bug - agent failed to detect the duplicate: cached the stale company list
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's mock drifted from the real API: how to detect stale mocks
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes the jest failure 'Snapshot summary: 1 snapshot obsolete' that appears only when CI runs with the --ci flag. Shows how to find the stale snapshot, clear it with -u, review the .snap diff, and get CI green again. Use when the suite passes locally but the pipeline fails on obsolete snapshots. Not for snapshot value…
Scopes an agent's test runs to affected tests via changed-file mapping and runner-native selection, reserving full runs for nightly or pre-merge. Use when an agent runs thousands of tests for a small change. Not for release validation where the full suite is genuinely required.
Fixes a docs agent that presents deprecated API endpoints as current with no deprecation notice. The skill shows how to detect deprecation markers in code, surface them in the generated docs, and backfill the changelog. It covers annotation-based and convention-based deprecation signals.
Explains Jest "Your test suite must contain at least one test" failing in CI after a file rename: the usual causes (stale empty file left by the rename, a helper matching the test pattern with no tests, CI checking out a different file set) and how to find the offending file. Use when this error appears after renaming…
Contains blast radius from test-healing agents by requiring a full-suite before/after comparison and blocking the heal on any new failure. Use when a fix touches shared code, fixtures, or config, or when a healing PR shows unexpected failures. Not for pre-existing baseline failures.
Audits test deletions by healing agents using git history, per-deletion justification, and coverage comparison. Use when reviewing agent PRs that remove tests, or when suite test counts drop after healing. Not for feature-removal deletions you approved yourself.