ENGINEERING

Weekly Quarantine Debt Report: Re-Surface Skipped Tests for Cleanup

Each week, lists every currently-skipped/quarantined test from the codebase and its open Linear ticket age.

CategoryEngineering
Enginesim
Difficultybeginner
Triggerschedule
Steps5
Setup~5 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerWeekly schedule fires
  • ActionScan repo for skipped/quarantined test annotationsGitHubGitHub
  • ActionFetch linked flake ticket status and age from LinearLinearLinear
  • LogicCompute quarantine age; flag stale beyond SLA
  • OutputPost aging quarantine-debt digest to SlackSlack

What it does

Quarantining a test is easy; un-quarantining it is what teams forget. This weekly job inventories every skipped test in the repo, matches each to its Linear flake ticket, computes how long it has been quarantined, and posts a Slack digest that pressures owners to either fix it or delete it.

When to use it

Use it when your quarantine list has quietly grown into a graveyard and coverage is silently rotting. It turns invisible skip annotations into a visible, aging backlog with named owners.

How it works

  1. 1A weekly schedule trigger starts the run.
  2. 2A GitHub step scans the codebase for skip/quarantine annotations and extracts the linked ticket IDs.
  3. 3A Linear query pulls each matching flake ticket's status, assignee, and creation date.
  4. 4A logic step computes quarantine age and flags tickets older than the SLA as stale.
  5. 5A Slack digest posts the full list sorted by age, highlighting stale entries and their owners for action.

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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