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Fixes this failure: make the agent post to the private timeline by default and require an explicit public flag for any external update. 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 GraphQL 'query complexity limit exceeded' errors when an agent fetches all review threads on a PR. Use it when a single big threads query is rejected for being too expensive. Key trigger: the complexity-limit error on a review-threads query.
Fixes agents reviewing closed PRs by checking PR state before posting. Use when the agent posts to merged/closed PRs. Not for reviews posted before close.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent auto-closed a ticket the customer was still replying to: race condition - auto-close agent closed an active p1 ticket: stale-status race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted a review on an already-closed PR: race condition
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents losing state on mid-review rebases by keying state to the commit SHA. Use when a rebase wipes the agent's progress. Not for force-pushes without rebase.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent lost its drafted comments when the runner was preempted: persistence: how to fix - [agent auto-closed an upgrade PR as "stale" while a human was mid-review, then reopened an identical on…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent lost review state when the PR was rebased mid-review
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes agents failing to resolve review threads via GraphQL by using the correct mutation and thread IDs. Use when the resolve mutation errors. Not for REST-based thread resolution.
Fixes review agents silently losing comments past GitHub's inline comment limits by batching and summarizing. Use when some agent comments never appear. Not for comments rejected with errors.
Fixes review agents spamming re-review requests on every CI rerun by gating on new commits. Use when the agent re-requests review without new changes. Not for legitimate re-review after pushes.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent loop detected: review agent kept re-requesting changes on its own approved diff - review agent failed to terminate its review loop: the PR kept updating: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent kept requesting re-review on every CI rerun: loop
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents reviewing the base branch instead of the PR head by fetching the correct ref. Use when the review discusses code not in the PR. Not for stale-head reviews.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to read the base branch: reviewed main-to-feature instead of feature-to-main: how to fix - [dependabot: update failed with "reference already exists" - the agent's rebase loop kee…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent reviewed the base branch instead of the head ref
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review agents double-posting identical reviews by adding idempotency. Use when the same review appears twice on a PR. Not for two genuinely different reviews.
Fixes review agents commenting on the wrong PR due to pagination indexing bugs. Use when agent comments land on a different PR than intended. Not for comments on the right PR but wrong lines.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - review agent failed to refresh line numbers after a force push: stale commit references: how to fix - GitHub token expired mid-run while the review agent posted line comments
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent posted review comments to the wrong PR number after pagination
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent approved its own emergency access request: approval loop guard - agent loop detected: review agent kept re-requesting changes on its own approved diff
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: review agent approved its own pull request: self-approval loop
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes review-agent queue starvation by adding aging to the priority scheme. Use when old PRs never get reviewed while new ones jump ahead. Not for queues that are simply overloaded.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent timed out waiting for the pages build queue: preview build stalled for 30 minutes - [linkedin 'you have reached the weekly invitation limit' - agent's connection step blocked with no queue for …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent review queue starved: oldest PR never reached, priority inversion
Problem outcome: unknown