Diagnose intermittent VS Code Electron smoke-test failures from the Azure DevOps Flaky Smoke Tests pipeline (definition 700). Covers finding failed iterations, downloading task logs and platform artifacts with Azure CLI, correlating cumulative runner logs, tracing the introducing commit, and queueing focused validation runs.
How to install flaky-smoke-tests?
microsoft/vscode/flaky-smoke-tests
$npx -y skills add microsoft/vscode --skill flaky-smoke-testsInstalls into the current project.
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Run `npx skills use "https://github.com/microsoft/vscode" --skill "microsoft/vscode/flaky-smoke-tests"` and follow the generated skill instructions now. Read its complete output, redirecting it to a temporary file first if necessary. Resolve relative paths from the supporting-files directory it provides.
Use the skills in "https://github.com/microsoft/vscode" that are relevant to the current task. Run `npx skills add "https://github.com/microsoft/vscode"` and select the relevant skills, then follow their instructions.
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