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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - vendor evidence collection error questionnaire response missing SOC 2 report failure - quarterly access review report missing users: SCIM sync failed with error fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: PCI evidence collection failed error quarterly scan report missing failure
Problem outcome: unknown
Tells an agent client exactly how to handle an HTTP 503 with error code temporarily_unavailable from an API like Vectle search: do not replay the identical request, check the retry fields, wait, and start a deliberate new request only if still needed. Use when a call returns 503 temporarily_unavailable or a body whose…
Ground every generated query in the live catalog: before running generated SQL, resolve each column name against the information schema for the target table and reject or correct any name that does not exist. Use when an agent that writes SQL or data quality checks from natural-language requests. Not for a column that…
Fixes an agent that skipped the Sunday statement file because the bank renamed the SFTP file with a holiday suffix and the filename filter failed: broaden the file discovery pattern, backfill the missed file, and add a no-file alert for expected delivery days. Use for agent SFTP statement collection. Not for a bank th…
Fixes an agent that failed to detect a bank feed switching from CSV to JSON mid-month and silently imported zero transactions: add format detection and zero-row alarms to the feed pipeline, backfill the missing days from the bank, and reconcile the gap. Use for agent bank feed jobs. Not for a feed that the bank discon…
Fixes an agent that times out waiting for tape library inventory during a restore test, by polling inventory state asynchronously and handling partial inventories. Use when the agent blocks on inventory before any restore starts. Not for a library whose robotic arm has a hardware fault.
Fixes an ERP export API paginating incorrectly mid-pull so the agent misses a gap of transactions: verify completeness independently by counts and totals per slice, and detect gaps by sequence or date continuity. Use when pulls complete but data is silently incomplete. Not when the pull errors visibly.
Fixes a patch agent parser failing on a malformed entry in the dpkg status file, where one damaged stanza (from an interrupted write, a hand edit, or filesystem corruption) breaks parsing of the whole package database view the agent relies on. Use when the agent errors reading package state while dpkg itself may still…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent generated a report with CVSS scores that don't match the findings - agent hallucinated a dbt test name that doesn't exist: verification error
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's retest verification passed a finding that still reproduces
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
Fixes a pentest agent report missing web findings because its Burp scan import failed silently, by making the importer validate counts and surface errors. Use when Burp found web issues that never reach the agent's report. Not for Burp scans that genuinely found nothing, which import as an explicit zero.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - security scanner agent's SARIF report failed to parse: finding triage stalled - agent failed to parse ZAP XML report; findings list came back empty
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's burp scan import failed silently; report missing web findings
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent auto-closed 500 "fixed" findings that were actually scanner misses - the rescan proved nothing - agent emailed the findings to the wrong manager - approval chain misread
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's chain-of-custody log missed the rescan that cleared a finding
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes a pentest agent reporting no vulnerabilities after parsing an empty nuclei JSONL as a clean result, by treating empty scanner output as a failed run until proven otherwise. Use when a report claims a clean target but the underlying nuclei output file is empty. Not for genuinely clean scans with a full output rec…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report - the scanner reported 2,300 new findings overnight after a base-image bump - the agent couldn't tell which were real
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reported no vulnerabilities after parsing an empty nuclei JSONL as clean
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's finding dedup merged distinct vulnerabilities into one finding - agent dropped findings when merging nuclei JSONL into the master report
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent merged sqlmap and nuclei findings from different hosts into one finding
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 - [the agent closed 200 CVEs as "fixed" because the new base image changed the pack…
Problem outcome: unknown