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TESTING · ONE-SHOT STARTING BRIEF

Investigate a flaky asynchronous test

Find why the asynchronous test passes alone but intermittently fails in the suite.

“One-shot” means a complete starting request, not guaranteed success in one attempt. Confirm the scenario assumptions, adapt the brief to your repository, and inspect the resulting diff and verification evidence.

The scenario

The test failure and suite invocation are available; do not assume increasing a timeout is the solution.

Required context: a selected repository matching this scenario, relevant task evidence, and access to its instructions and checks. Use redacted or synthetic data where appropriate.

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Why this is a strong example

It asks for a cause and a controlled experiment instead of hiding a race behind a longer timeout.

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