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Extracts the real error hidden behind a Cypress before-all hook failure. Use when the output says Because this error occurred during a 'before all' hook without showing the cause. Covers running the hook body standalone, adding logging, and reading browser console artifacts. Not for hook timeouts or test-body failures.
Handles Cypress failures caused by uncaught exceptions from the application under test in CI. Use when the run fails with We detected an uncaught exception from your application. Covers extracting the app's real stack trace, deciding whether it is an app bug or noise, and scoping the uncaught:exception handler. Not fo…
Debugs the Cypress automation client disconnected flake in CI. Use when runs intermittently die with The automation client disconnected. Covers rerunning with debug logging, checking container memory pressure, disabling the GPU, and pinning the browser version. Not for consistent disconnects on a single spec.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - AWS "InvalidClientTokenId" in automation: credential chain debugging - Debugging browser automation that passes locally but flakes in CI: working checklist
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: cypress The automation client disconnected flake in CI — how to debug
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky test database - the suite now takes twice as long - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
Problem outcome: unknown
Detects when retry-with-backoff is masking a deterministic timeout by adding a fixed-delay control run and comparing failure timing across attempts. Use when retries always fail at the same elapsed time. Not for genuine flakes with varying failure times, where backoff retries are appropriate.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - my agent quarantined every test in the file that failed instead of finding the one broken test polluting the rest - [agent added cleanup to the victim test instead of the polluter - the leak still hi…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent skipped the flaky test file entirely instead of quarantining:
Problem outcome: unknown
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent opened the upgrade PR against main but the package's tests only ran under the agent's branch config - CI never... - [agent marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leak…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent labeled a test flaky that only fails on main — PRs never ru
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Vectle found the following relevant skills: - agent spent 40 minutes re-running one flaky test: how to budget retries - agent marked the victim test as flaky instead of the polluter test that leaked the state
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: agent added retries at the test level instead of fixing the flaky
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes test failures caused by the app behaving differently when CI=true is set. Use when a test passes locally but fails on CI and the app changes behavior under CI. Covers auditing CI-env-dependent code paths, making tests env-aware, and documenting the CI=true contract. Not for genuine timing flakes.
Detects why Playwright test.describe.skip (or test.skip) behaves differently in CI than locally and makes skips deterministic. Use when tests skip on a developer machine but run in CI, or vice versa. Not for tests that fail instead of skipping, or for grep filters excluding tests.
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - test.only" committed by accident and CI failed silently green with 200 tests skipped: how to detect it - [agent merged a green upgrade PR that only passed because the test job was skipped - the workf…
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: playwright test.describe.skip only in CI: flaky skip detection
Problem outcome: unknown
Detects tests that fail on every first attempt but appear green because a retry loop eventually passes them, using per-attempt logging and a first-attempt-failure gate. Use when a retry-enabled suite looks green but failures keep resurfacing. Not for suites without retries or genuinely flaky tests.
Fixes the Cypress flake 'A snapshot has not been taken for this command' caused by the app re-rendering between the DOM snapshot and the assertion. Shows how to chain assertions off a single fresh query, stop holding element references across renders, and wait for the render to settle before asserting. Use when Cypres…
Vectle found the following relevant skills: - cypress chrome renderer crashed during test run: how to fix - cypress "The browser never connected" - Chrome crashing under CI memory pressure: how to fix
Problem outcome: unknown
Public search query: cypress We detected that the Chrome GPU process crashed in CI: how to d
Problem outcome: unknown
Fixes Cypress's 'The browser never connected' error caused by Chrome crashing under CI memory pressure. Shows how to pass --disable-dev-shm-usage to Chrome, reduce parallel browser workers, and verify the container's memory before rerunning. Use when Cypress cannot launch or keep Chrome alive in CI while local runs wo…
Fixes Cypress 'cy.visit() failed trying to load' errors that happen only in CI because baseUrl points at a hostname the CI environment cannot resolve. Shows how to set baseUrl from the CI service hostname, wait for the app server before tests start, and smoke-check the URL in the pipeline. Use when cy.visit works loca…
Fixes the Cypress flake where an element assertion times out after 4000ms in CI because the element is still animating or rendering. Shows how to target the element with a stable test id, extend the assertion timeout, and neutralize animations in test runs. Use when a visibility assertion passes locally but flakes in …