DEVOPS

Agent triages flaky test logs and proposes a fix

When a test is quarantined, an agent reads its recent failure logs, infers the likely root cause (timing, ordering, network, fixture), drafts a remediation plan.

CategoryDevOps
Enginepaperclip
Difficultyadvanced
Triggerevent
Steps5
Setup~25 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerTest labeled quarantineGitHubGitHub
  • ActionFetch failing logs and stack tracesGitHubGitHub
  • ActionPull related traces from DatadogDatadogDatadog
  • LogicAgent infers root cause and drafts fixOpenAI
  • OutputPost remediation plan to Linear ticketLinearLinear

What it does

This template puts an investigation agent on every newly quarantined test. It gathers the test's recent failure logs and stack traces, reasons about the most likely flakiness category such as a race condition, test-order dependency, network timeout, or shared fixture, and drafts a concrete remediation plan attached to the tracking ticket.

When to use it

Use it when quarantine tickets sit empty because nobody has time to dig into intermittent logs. The agent does the first-pass diagnosis so the assigned engineer starts with a hypothesis instead of a blank page.

How it works

  1. 1A GitHub label event for `quarantine` on an issue fires the trigger.
  2. 2The agent fetches recent failing-run logs and stack traces for the named test via GitHub.
  3. 3It pulls additional context such as related test traces from Datadog where available.
  4. 4The agent reasons over the evidence to classify the flake type and draft a fix plan with confidence and next steps.
  5. 5The plan is posted as a comment on the Linear tracking ticket for the owner to act on.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect GitHubRepos, issues, pull requests, actions.
  2. 2
    Connect DatadogMetrics, traces, log search.
  3. 3
    Connect LinearIssues, projects, cycles, triage.
  4. 4
    Connect OpenAIModels, embeddings, files.
  5. 5
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  6. 6
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  7. 7
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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