Document canceled job recovery in helix Copilot skill#124135
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Documents how to recover Helix test results from Azure DevOps jobs that were canceled (often due to timeouts) by using binlog artifacts to extract Helix job IDs and query Helix directly.
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- Added a “Recovering Results from Canceled Jobs” section describing an artifact/binlog-driven recovery workflow.
- Added an extra tip referencing an MCP server for binlog investigation.
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Canceled AzDO jobs (typically from timeouts) still have pipeline artifacts containing binlogs. The SendToHelix.binlog contains Helix job IDs that can be queried directly to recover actual test results. Discovered while investigating PR #124125 where a 3-hour timeout caused a WasmBuildTests job to be canceled, but all 226 Helix work items had actually passed.
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Canceled AzDO jobs (typically from timeouts) still have pipeline artifacts containing binlogs. The \SendToHelix.binlog\ contains Helix job IDs that can be queried directly to recover actual test results.
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Discovered while investigating #124125 where \�rowser-wasm windows Release WasmBuildTests\ was canceled after 3 hours. The script reported no failures (correct — no failed jobs) but also couldn't surface that the tests actually passed. With the documented recovery workflow, the Helix results were fully recoverable.