Regression Triage

Investigate a regression for: $ARGUMENTS

Purpose

Find the smallest code change that introduced a failing test, broken workflow, or user-reported regression.

Pre-flight

1. Confirm the working tree is clean. If this prints anything, stop and ask the user to commit or stash the changes before continuing:

   test -z "$(git status --porcelain)" || { echo "Working tree is dirty; commit or stash changes first."; exit 1; }
   

2. Record the current branch and commit:

   git branch --show-current
   git rev-parse --short HEAD
   

3. Identify the failing command or reproduction steps from $ARGUMENTS.

Triage Workflow

1. Reproduce the failure

Run the narrowest available command first. Treat $ARGUMENTS as a description or test selector, not as a shell command: identify the reproduction/test command from the issue and repository documentation, then append only a validated selector (quoted as needed).

For example, after identifying packages/foo/test/foo.test.ts as the selector:

npm test -- packages/foo/test/foo.test.ts

If no narrow command exists, run the documented test command from the repository README or CONTRIBUTING guide.

2. Compare against recent history

Inspect recent commits that touched the failing area:

git log --oneline --decorate --max-count=20 -- <path-to-failing-area>

For each suspicious commit, inspect the focused diff:

git show --stat <commit>
git show <commit> -- <path-to-failing-area>

3. Isolate the change

If the regression window is unclear, use git bisect only with a wrapper that distinguishes a real test failure from an indeterminate environment failure. The wrapper must exit 0 for pass, 1 for a reproducible failure, and 125 when the test cannot run:

cat > /tmp/triage-bisect.sh <<'EOF'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -o pipefail
<validated-test-command>
status=$?
# Replace this classification with the repository-specific environment errors.
case "$status" in 0) exit 0;; 1) exit 1;; *) exit 125;; esac
EOF
chmod +x /tmp/triage-bisect.sh
git bisect start
git bisect bad
git bisect good <known-good-commit>
git bisect run /tmp/triage-bisect.sh
git bisect reset

Stop and report the environment failure if it cannot be classified reliably. Only run bisect when the test command is deterministic and reasonably fast.

4. Report findings

Return a concise report with:

• Failing command and observed error
• Suspected commit or code path
• Minimal fix recommendation
• Tests that should pass after the fix

Safety Notes

• Do not discard user changes.
• Do not run destructive git commands.
• Prefer narrow tests before full suites.
• If tests require unavailable services, document the missing dependency and continue with static analysis.