Collapse one error that reports as hundreds of issues
One error that arrives as four hundred separate issues because a unique value is in its message.
The ticket
Correct the fingerprinting for an error that groups into hundreds of separate issues.
Acceptance criteria
- The error groups into a single issue
- Variable data moves from the message into structured context
- Issue counts before and after are recorded
- No genuinely distinct error is merged in the process
What lands as proof
Issue counts before and after, plus a check that distinct failures still land in distinct issues.
Why teams defer it
- The noise is annoying rather than urgent, so it gets filtered out of the inbox instead of fixed.
- Changing a fingerprint can merge genuinely different errors, which is worse than the noise.
Questions
- What does the agent actually change?
- The ticket is scoped to one outcome: correct the fingerprinting for an error that groups into hundreds of separate issues. Work that serves that outcome is in scope, and anything outside it is left for a separate ticket, so the pull request stays reviewable.
- How do I know the work is done?
- The pull request carries the evidence, not only the diff. Here that means one issue instead of hundreds, counts captured before and after, so a reviewer can confirm the result without reproducing the work locally.
- How much oversight does this need?
- The run stops once the plan is written. Somebody reads the approach and approves it before any code exists, which is the cheapest moment to redirect the work.