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Load when investigating a failing PR CI pipeline or checking PR health. Attributes each CI failure as flaky, infra, or regression, proposes a targeted action, and reports code coverage.

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Load when investigating a failing PR CI pipeline or checking PR health. Attributes each CI failure as flaky, infra, or regression, proposes a targeted action, and reports code coverage.
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{"version":"1.1.0","author":"datadog-labs","repository":"https://github.com/datadog-labs/agent-skills","tags":"datadog,ci,cicd,flaky,flaky-tests,pipeline","alwaysApply":"false"}
# Unblock PR One-line summary: Investigate a failing PR CI pipeline — attribute each failure as flaky, infra, or regression and propose a targeted action. Requires: `dd-pup` skill (pup CLI installed and authenticated), `dd-triage-flaky-test` skill (for flaky failure deep investigation). --- ## Input | Parameter | Description | |---|---| | PR branch | The branch under investigation (e.g. `my-feature-branch`) | | Repository | Lowercase, no-schema URL (e.g. `github.com/org/repo`). Derive from `git remote get-url origin` if not provided. | --- ## Workflow ### STEP 0 — Parse Input Derive repository ID and default branch from git if not provided: ```bash # Repository ID: fully lowercase, no-schema URL (the API rejects mixed-case) git remote get-url origin # Strip protocol and trailing .git, then lowercase the result # e.g. https://github.com/DataDog/my-repo.git → github.com/datadog/my-repo # Default branch git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD # Strip refs/remotes/origin/ prefix — fall back to main if unset ``` ### STEP 1 — Get PR CI Summary (run both in parallel) **Pipeline failures (job level):** ```bash pup cicd events search \ --query "@ci.status:error @git.branch:<branch> @git.repository.id_v2:\"<repo>\"" \ --level job \ --from 24h \ --limit 50 ``` **Test failures:** ```bash pup cicd tests search \ --query "@test.status:fail @git.branch:<branch> @git.repository.id_v2:\"<repo>\"" \ --from 24h \ --limit 50 ``` Run both queries in parallel. Collect all distinct `@test.service` values from test event results. If more than one distinct service is found, note each separately in the triage brief — do not collapse them into a single service filter. If pipeline results contain only infrastructure job types (build, lint, deploy) with no test-runner output, discard test search results and skip to STEP 3. ### STEP 1.5 — Fetch Code Coverage (run in parallel with STEP 1) This step runs unconditionally — coverage context is valuable whether CI is red or green. The `--repo` value must be fully lowercase (the API rejects mixed-case). Normalize before calling: ```bash repo_lower=$(echo "<repo>" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]') pup code-coverage branch-summary \ --repo "$repo_lower" \ --branch "<branch>" ``` If the command returns no data or exits with an error, report "No data available" for Coverage in the PR Health section. Note: Code quality and security violation counts are not available in pup — those lines always show "No data available". ### STEP 2 — Blame Guard per Failing Job First check whether `@error_classification.domain` / `@error_classification.type` are present on job events from STEP 1 — if populated, use them as primary classification signals. For each failing job where classification is still needed, run both checks in parallel: **Default branch check** — was this job already failing before this PR? ```bash pup cicd events aggregate \ --query "@ci.status:error @ci.job.name:\"<job>\" @git.branch:<default-branch> @git.repository.id_v2:\"<repo>\"" \ --compute count \ --from 24h ``` **Blast radius check** — is this job failing on other branches too? ```bash pup cicd events aggregate \ --query "@ci.status:error @ci.job.name:\"<job>\" @git.repository.id_v2:\"<repo>\"" \ --compute count \ --group-by "@git.branch" \ --from 24h ``` Performance fallback: if the blast radius query is slow or times out, skip it and rely on the default branch check alone. ### STEP 3 — Classify Each Failure **Priority order:** 1. If `@error_classification.domain` / `@error_classification.type` present → use as primary signal 2. If test failure AND test appears in flaky tests with `flaky_test_state:active`: ```bash pup cicd flaky-tests search \ --query "flaky_test_state:active @test.name:\"<test-name>\" @git.repository.id_v2:\"<repo>\"" ``` → **flaky** 3. Use blame guard results: | Failing on default branch? | Failing on ≥3 other branches? | Classification | |---|---|---| | Yes | Yes | **infra** (pre-existing, widespread) | | Yes | No | **infra** (pre-existing on default branch) | | No | No | **regression** (introduced by this PR) | | No | Yes | **flaky** (intermittent, cross-branch) | | Insufficient data | — | **unknown** | ### STEP 4 — Produce Triage Brief One entry per failing job: ``` PR CI Triage Brief ================== Branch: <branch> Repo: <repo> Job: <job-name> Classification: <flaky | infra | regression | unknown> Evidence: <1 key data point — error message, pipeline count, or test result> Confidence: <high | medium | low> Recommended: <action> [repeat for each failing job] Overall: <N> failures — <e.g. "1 regression, 1 flaky, 1 infra"> PR Health ========= Coverage: <X>% on <branch> | No data available Quality: No data available Security: No data available ``` All three lines always appear. ### STEP 5 — Propose Actions **regression** → Prompt user to investigate their code changes. No write action available. **flaky** → Load `dd-triage-flaky-test` skill for deep investigation. That skill will: - Attempt an agent-native fix using `flaky_category` + stack trace - Propose quarantine via `pup test-optimization flaky-tests update` if a quick fix isn't possible **infra** → Before proposing a retry, assess whether the failure is transient: - Check `@error_classification.type` and error message for signals like `timeout`, `runner unavailable`, `network error`, `quota exceeded` — these indicate transient failures where a retry is likely to help - If the error is deterministic (build misconfiguration, missing secret, explicit test assertion failure), a retry is unlikely to help — note this and suggest investigating the root cause - If the failure is pre-existing on the default branch, inform the user — a retry will likely fail again; await the upstream fix instead If transient and GitHub Actions: extract the run ID from `@ci.pipeline.url` (e.g. `https://github.com/org/repo/actions/runs/<run_id>`): ```bash gh run rerun <run_id> --failed ``` For other providers, share `@ci.pipeline.url` and direct to the provider UI for retry. **unknown** → Suggest checking raw job logs via the CI provider UI or `@ci.pipeline.url` from the pipeline event.
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