{
  "id": 19165061,
  "title": "“Hindsight Stopped My On-Call Agent From Repeating a Failed Fix”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/hindsight-stopped-my-on-call-agent-from-repeating-a-failed-fix",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-09T14:39:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/samad117/hindsight-stopped-my-on-call-agent-from-repeating-a-failed-fix-14ja"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On an on-call shift, a billing-api error caused a connection timeout. The usual response was to increase the connection pool, but this had failed in the past. An engineer built an on-call agent using Hindsight, an open-source agent memory system, to learn from previous incidents rather than just the documents. The agent recalled past incidents and corrections, asked an LLM for a structured JSON verdict, and retained feedback for future use. However, the model struggled to distinguish between similar but different alerts. To address this, the engineer built recall queries that enriched alerts with domain concepts, allowing the agent to better understand the specific context. The system also prioritized verified past incidents and showed which memories were used in the decision-making process.",
  "summary": "\"A practical incident-triage design that remembers failed fixes, not just successful ones, so an on-call agent learns from real operator feedback.\" Hindsight Stopped My On-Call Agent From Repeating a Failed Fix At 03:47 UTC, billing-api threw HikariPool-1 - Connection is not available, request timed out after 30000ms . Every LLM I know gives the same answer: the pool is too small, so increase it.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}