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Stops a rich text editor page or scroll pane from jumping when a sticky toolbar button is clicked: prevents focus theft on mousedown, refocuses without scrolling, restores saved scroll positions, and adds a sticky-offset scroll padding. Use when toolbar clicks in Tiptap, ProseMirror, Lexical, Slate, or a plain content…
Read the trial list through the API, not the web UI: scraping the Determined AI web UI for trials is slow and fragile, so use the Determined API or CLI to list trials with pagination and build the agent report from that. Use when an agent workflow collecting Determined AI trial or experiment lists. Not for an API that…
Summarise in layers instead of loading everything: 2000 test results cannot fit in one prompt, so aggregate results by model and status first, pass only failures and counts to the agent, and fetch detail per model on demand. Use when an agent workflow summarising large dbt test runs or data quality results. Not for a …
Page the listing and checkpoint progress: listing ClearML tasks across 20 projects in one call times out, so query per project with pagination, persist the results per project, and let the agent resume from the last finished project. Use when an agent workflow auditing or cleaning up ClearML tasks across many projects…
Fixes this failure in the expansion dashboard query - pre-aggregate usage daily per account in the warehouse and point the dashboard at the aggregate table, partitioning by date, instead of scanning raw events on every dashboard load. Prove it on one record, then rerun the full scope and reconcile the counts.
Fixes the Label Studio failure "scraper failed to collect Label Studio task pages after pagination error" by acting on the exact message, proving the fix on one item, then rerunning and reconciling counts. Use when this error blocks an export, review or check. Not for platform outages or permission errors, which must …
Push the work to the query and precompute incrementally: a leaderboard over all runs needs server-side filtering and ordering, plus a stored previous leaderboard that only new or changed runs update. Use when an agent generating a model or experiment leaderboard. Not for a leaderboard over a small fixed run set where …
Argues for MCP search tools that return one strong default result with at most a few alternates, instead of long weak lists. Covers context cost, decision quality, and how to expose more results on demand. Use when designing or evaluating an MCP tool that retrieves skills, documents, or fixes for an agent. Not for hum…
Validate in slices with precomputed source digests instead of one giant cross-check: build a compact digest of the source runs once, id, metrics, status, then verify the report's claims claim by claim against the digest with a per-claim budget, sampling deeply rather than exhaustively when the report is large. Use whe…
Summarise in stages, never by loading the history: compute per-run reductions with code first, loss, best metric, status, key params, then summarise the reductions in batches, and only then write the overall summary from the batch summaries. Use when an agent producing a summary across hundreds of experiment runs. Not…
Push the work to the query and precompute incrementally: a leaderboard over all runs needs server-side filtering and ordering, plus a stored previous leaderboard that only new or changed runs update. Use when an agent generating a model or experiment leaderboard. Not for a leaderboard over a small fixed run set where …
Follow the pagination to the end or do not report at all: the agent missed three nights of failures because it read the first page of job history and treated it as the whole record. Use when an agent auditing Cohesity backup job history. Not for a history genuinely too large for one pass, where the fix is querying per…
Do not paste a 500-table schema into the prompt: fetch the catalog in pages, keep a compact index of table names with column counts and owners, and pull full column detail only for the tables the current task touches. Use when an agent generating queries or checks across a large warehouse schema. Not for a task that g…
Stop loading the full validation history into the prompt: page through stored results newest-first, keep only each suite's latest status plus counts of failing expectations, and fetch full detail only for suites that currently fail. Use when an agent that reports data quality status from stored validation history. Not…
Fixes the Label Studio failure "scraper failed to collect Label Studio task pages after pagination error" by acting on the exact message, proving the fix on one item, then rerunning and reconciling counts. Use when this error blocks an export, review or check. Not for platform outages or permission errors, which must …
Fixes an agent hitting its context window limit by putting 20k unreconciled transactions into one prompt: move matching to code, feed the model only small exception batches, and summarise state between batches. Use when the model is being used as the matching engine for bulk data. Not for small judgement sets the mode…
Fixes browser automation that times out scraping a billing dashboard for cancellation data by replacing fragile page waits with explicit element waits and an API-first fallback. Use when dashboard scrapes flake or hang. Not for a dashboard that requires human-only access by policy.
Fixes: agent infinite-scroll crawler never reached the footer Applies when your scan flags this exact rule. Not for manual-only issues the rule does not report.
Fixes the screenshot agent timing out on infinite-scroll pages in locale QA. Scroll to a fixed depth or stub the feed before capturing. Use when locale screenshots time out on feeds. Not for static pages.
Contains a crawler that exploded into faceted pagination: block facet combinations, consolidate signals, and protect the crawl budget. Use when crawl stats show hundreds of thousands of near-duplicate URLs from filters and sorts. Not for sitemap bloat, which is a separate generation problem.
Handles an agent overflowing context on a 5k-line allowlist: index and chunk instead of loading whole. Use when allowlists exceed context. Not for allowlist correctness issues.
Fixes Workers Browser Rendering timeouts. Use when headless rendering exceeds limits. Key trigger: the rendering-timeout error.
Fixes license agents whose billing-page scrapers return empty seat counts by waiting for the JavaScript-rendered count element and preferring the vendor API or export. Use when a scraper reads an empty page shell. Not for pages that block automation outright.
Fixes Playwright "locator.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded: Element is not visible" that only fails on CI's smaller viewport. Covers pinning an explicit viewport in config, driving the responsive path when layouts intentionally hide the element, and scrolling inside the right container. Use when scroll or click works locally bu…
Handles context overflow when an agent reads hundreds of field definitions: fetch only the fields the task needs, and summarize the rest. Use when describe output overflows context. Not for export file overflows.