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Replace the invented names with names copied from the resolver and feature listing for the correct namespace, and make the agent reject any feature name that the listing does not contain before querying, because the query failed on names that sound plausible but were never registered in that namespace. Use when you se…
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Fixes a patch agent downloading its catalog from a stale mirror and deploying superseded updates. Use when deployed updates turn out to be superseded or the catalog age is unknown. Not for a deliberate deployment of an older update to satisfy a specific dependency.
Fixes agent multi-threaded verify breaking a shared manifest: serialise manifest writes, use per-thread outputs with a merge step, or move manifest state to a store with transactions. Use when parallel verify corrupts its shared manifest. Not for single-threaded manifest errors.
Repairs agent --upgrade runs that broke pinned dbt packages for analytics engineers supervising repair agents. Use when dbt deps --upgrade moved packages off their pins. Not for registry outages or git auth issues.
Fixes an agent deploying a notebook to Airflow without pinned dependencies: pin everything and build the image reproducibly. For agent builders.
Fixes dbt deps failures on unavailable package versions for analytics engineers and repair agents. Use when dbt deps cannot find a pinned package version. Not for git auth errors or network failures during install.
Handles go's 410 Gone for a retracted module version. Use it when the proxy refuses a version that was retracted upstream. Key trigger: downloading X 410 Gone in the log. Not for checksum mismatches or missing sum entries.
Fixes cargo's failed to verify the checksum of a crate. Use it when a downloaded crate does not match the locked hash. Key trigger: the checksum line naming the crate and the two hashes. Not for missing-package or source-fetch errors.
Fixes the Cargo.lock needs to be updated but --locked was passed CI failure. Use it when Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock disagree in a locked CI build. Key trigger: the --locked message in the CI log. Not for checksum or network failures.
Fixes cargo's no matching package named X after cargo update. Use it when the registry index lacks the requested name or version. Key trigger: cargo names the package it cannot find. Not for checksum or source-download failures.
Use when a dependabot security PR that is really a major bump got auto-merged and broke things. Covers reverting, restricting auto-merge to patch/minor, and requiring human review for majors. Not for patch-level security bumps that merge cleanly.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent rightsized the Kubernetes nodes - it measured node CPU and missed that the cluster autoscaler was keeping... - [the agent auto-closed 500 "fixed" findings that were actually scanner misses - th…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent auto-approved a security PR from dependabot that was actually a
Problem outcome: unknown
Stops an agent from burning the GitHub API quota polling registry metadata. Use it when the changelog step dies partway with rate-limit errors. Key trigger: the logs show rate-limit responses and the agent made one API call per package. Not for: quota burned by CI or other tools, which needs org-level quota management.
Recovers when a rollback fails because the old version was yanked. Use it when the previous version is no longer installable from the registry. Key trigger: the rollback install fails with a yanked or not-found error for the old version. Not for: a rollback blocked by data migration, which is a state problem, not a ve…
Use when a fix PR touched the wrong dependency scope and the finding survives. Covers mapping findings to the exact manifest path, reverting the wrong bump, and gating security PRs on rescan clearance. Not for version-resolution failures.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version - the build failed on 'version X has been yanked' - agent failed to detect the policy violation: cached the old policy version
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's rollback PR failed — the old version had been yank
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent bumped a devDependency into the published package because the dep was misclassified - the tarball now ships jest - [agent opened the upgrade PR against the release branch instead of main - the …
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: the agent's remediation PR bumped the devDependency instead of the prod
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes unreproducible failures caused by stale docker layer caches. Use when the agent's local docker run passes but CI's fresh build fails. Covers rebuilding without cache, finding the missing system dependency, and pinning it in the Dockerfile. Not for application-code failures.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version - the build failed on 'version X has been yanked' - pip-audit --fix pinned to yanked versions - the rescan passed but every build broke
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent's cargo audit fix picked a yanked version — the build failed
Problem outcome: unknown
Replaces a yanked version chosen by an automated cargo audit fix. Use it when the build fails with version X has been yanked after an agent applied an audit-suggested version. Key trigger: the error names the yanked version and the lockfile pins it. Not for: a yanked version you depend on deliberately, which needs a f…