ENGINEERING

Quarantine Expiry Sweep with Linear Sync

A scheduled agent audits all currently quarantined tests, checks whether their deflake deadline has passed.

CategoryEngineering
Enginepaperclip
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerScheduled quarantine sweep
  • ActionScan repo for quarantined testsGitHubGitHub
  • ActionRead linked Linear issue status and due datesLinearLinear
  • LogicSplit on-track vs overdue
  • ActionEscalate overdue Linear issuesLinearLinear
  • OutputPost per-team summary to SlackSlack

What it does

This workflow stops quarantine from becoming a graveyard. It periodically inventories every test marked quarantined in the repo, cross-references the linked Linear issue and its deflake deadline, and acts: fresh items get a gentle Slack reminder, while overdue items get their Linear issue escalated and the test flagged to be un-skipped so coverage is restored.

When to use it

Use this when quarantined tests accumulate and nobody fixes them. It enforces the deadline side of your quarantine policy automatically, on a weekly or biweekly cadence.

How it works

  1. 1A scheduled trigger fires the sweep.
  2. 2An action scans the repo for quarantine annotations and their linked issue IDs.
  3. 3An action reads each linked Linear issue's status and due date.
  4. 4A logic step splits tests into on-track versus overdue.
  5. 5An action escalates overdue Linear issues and bumps priority.
  6. 6The output posts a per-team summary to Slack with overdue items called out.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect GitHubRepos, issues, pull requests, actions.
  2. 2
    Connect LinearIssues, projects, cycles, triage.
  3. 3
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  4. 4
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  5. 5
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  6. 6
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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