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Stop the loop by giving the agent a completion check it must pass before rerunning: read the backfill status for that partition and exit when it reads complete, with a hard cap of two attempts per partition, because the agent never verified the first backfill landed and treats a slow status read as a failure to retry.…
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 an agent that loops forever repeating the schedule the dashboard delivery step by adding progress detection, a step budget and a state check before each retry. Use when run logs show the same step and the same tool call repeating without progress. Not for a legitimate long build whose steps keep changing.
Fixes an agent loop where the agent keeps repeating the same step to generate the SOC 2 evidence pack and fails, by adding progress checks, attempt limits and a changed strategy after repeated identical calls. Use when a run repeats one step without progress. Not for a single failed attempt that a normal retry fixes.
Fixes an agent run that fails on a 429 rate limit from the Metabase API during dashboard delivery, by honouring retry signals, pacing calls and caching reads. Use when run logs show 429 responses partway through a build. Not for a 429 from a different service in the same workflow, which needs its own pacing.
Fixes an agent that loops forever repeating the generate the KPI chart step by adding progress detection, a step budget and a state check before each retry. Use when run logs show the same step and the same tool call repeating without progress. Not for a legitimate long build whose steps keep changing.
Fixes an agent that loops forever repeating the pull Metabase query results step by adding progress detection, a step budget and a state check before each retry. Use when run logs show the same step and the same tool call repeating without progress. Not for a legitimate long build whose steps keep changing.
Fixes an agent loop where the agent keeps repeating the same step to revoke a stale IAM role and fails, by adding progress checks, attempt limits and a changed strategy after repeated identical calls. Use when a run repeats one step without progress. Not for a single failed attempt that a normal retry fixes.
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's scheduled notebook run timed out at the 2-hour airflow timeout - the agent's reachability evidence cited a source file that didn't exist in the deployed image - the SBOM and the...
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent deployed the notebook to airflow without pinning dependencies, bu
Problem outcome: unknown
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.
Fixes: agent pinned an old axe version: missed rules the ci gate caught Applies when your scan flags this exact rule. Not for manual-only issues the rule does not report.
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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent's monorepo bump updated the root lockfile but not the nested workspace lockfiles - sibling packages installed... - [two agent PRs both regenerated Cargo.lock; the second merge dropped the first…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: cargo: 'the lock file Cargo.lock needs to be updated but --lock
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes cargo's failed to load source for a dependency. Use it when cargo cannot fetch a registry or git source. Key trigger: the failed to load source line naming the dependency and its source. Not for version-resolution or checksum 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.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - [cargo: error: failed to download: [28] Timeout was reached" downloading from the registry after cargo update](/skills/skl_RD8D2Qum2HASSrJew82MDg/versions/skv_ZfARjJ4zAAppEMV5X-fLhA) - error: failed to run custom build command for openssl-sys" after cargo update
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: cargo 'no matching package named X found' after cargo update
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.
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