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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 the process failure where an agent fixed a dev-only instance of a problem and prod failed identically the next day, because the fix was applied to dev data handling instead of the shared model code. Use when the same failure recurs across environments. Not for genuinely environment-specific config faults.
Fixes the triage problem where an agent cannot tell which of several failing tests is the root cause and which are downstream symptoms. Use when a build reports many test failures at once. Not for a single failing test.
Reconciles drifted mocks with the live spec. Use when mock-green code 404s in production. Not for provider outages.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent verified the bump against a mocked registry; the real registry served a different tarball and checksums failed... - [agent's mock server port conflicted with the app under test: how to isolate]…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent built against a mock server — the mock's routes didn't
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Fixes agent repairs applied to the wrong target for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when an agent fixed staging but production still fails. Not for genuine environment differences in the fix itself.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - the agent fixed the symptom in CI config but the test still fails on developers' machines - agent couldn't reproduce a failure because CI uses a different timezone and the test parsed a local date
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent misread the test failure: fixed staging, prod still broken
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Repairs agent macro edits with wide blast radius for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when a macro change broke many downstream models. Not for single-model macro issues.
How to recover when an agent's regex codemod matched inside string literals and corrupted user-facing copy: reverting, rewriting the transform on an AST, and testing the new version. Use when a regex rewrite damaged text it should not have touched. Not for regex rewrites that were correct but incomplete.
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…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent quarantined 40 tests as flaky in one run - the quarantine threshold was too aggressive and now coverage is... - [my agent quarantined a whole spec file when one retry would have passed - the si…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent ran the codemod over test fixtures too and now the golden fil
Problem outcome: unknown
Restores the missing mocker fixture by declaring pytest-mock in CI dependencies. Use when pytest fails in CI with fixture 'mocker' not found while passing locally. Covers confirming the plugin is absent, adding it to the test requirements, and verifying registration. Not for runtime failures of the mocker fixture itse…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent marked an OOM-killed test as a code regression - the container hit its memory limit, not a bug - [test-healing agent marked a real regression as flaky - the test failed 3 times in a row but wit…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent marked an OOM-killed test as a code regression — the c
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent blamed test B for the failure - test A leaked an unhandled timer that fired during test B - [agent blamed the wrong test because the error surfaced in the consumer, not the polluter two tests e…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent blamed test B for the failure — test A leaked an unhandled
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes test-healing agents quarantining tests failed by the agent's own broken setup. Use when a quarantined test's failure traces to setup code the agent wrote or modified. Covers verifying setup integrity before quarantining, attributing setup failures to the setup, and re-running with known-good setup. Not for tests…
Fixes test-healing agents editing production code to satisfy a test when the test was actually correct. Use when a heal changed non-test code and the change looks suspicious. Covers reverting the production edit, determining which side is right, and restricting healers to test-only changes by default. Not for cases wh…
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.
Reproduces merge-queue-only failures by replicating merge-queue conditions: rebased onto the target, with sibling changes and realistic load. Use when an agent cannot reproduce a failure locally because it only happens in the merge queue. Not for failures that reproduce on a plain branch run, which are ordinary bugs, …