ENGINEERING

Agent Triage of Flaky Failures with Root-Cause Note and Owner Assignment

A CEO-driven agent reviews a failed test's logs and recent diff, classifies the likely flake cause (timing, network, shared state), drafts a root-cause note.

CategoryEngineering
Enginepaperclip
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerevent
Steps6
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerGitHub intermittent failure webhookGitHubGitHub
  • ActionGather logs, test source, and recent diffGitHubGitHub
  • LogicAgent classifies flake cause and drafts root-cause note
  • ActionResolve owner from CODEOWNERSGitHubGitHub
  • ActionFile owner-assigned Linear ticket with analysisLinearLinear
  • OutputShare diagnosis and ticket link in SlackSlack

What it does

This workflow adds reasoning to flake triage. On a confirmed intermittent failure, an agent reads the failure logs, the test source, and the recent commits touching it, then classifies the likely cause into categories like timing/race, network dependency, or shared test state. It drafts a concise root-cause hypothesis and suggested fix, files a Linear ticket assigned to the owner, and posts the summary to Slack.

When to use it

Use this when stack traces alone do not tell engineers why a test is flaky and you want a first-pass diagnosis attached to every ticket so the owner starts with a hypothesis instead of a blank page.

How it works

  1. 1A GitHub webhook fires on an intermittent test failure.
  2. 2The flow gathers the failure logs, the test file, and recent blame/diff via GitHub.
  3. 3The agent classifies the probable flake category and drafts a root-cause note plus a suggested fix.
  4. 4CODEOWNERS resolves the owner for assignment.
  5. 5A Linear ticket is created with the analysis, category label, and owner.
  6. 6A Slack message shares the diagnosis and ticket link with the team.

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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