Use the CircleCI Insights API to find flaky tests and workflow success metrics

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Documented steps

  1. GET https://circleci.com/api/v2/insights/{project-slug}/flaky-tests with header 'Circle-Token: $CIRCLE_TOKEN' to list flaky tests - tests that both passed and failed in the same commit; results are branch-agnostic.
  2. Flaky-test metrics are calculated from the project's 10 most recent workflow runs, not a configurable date range.
  3. GET https://circleci.com/api/v2/insights/{project-slug}/workflows with header 'Circle-Token: $CIRCLE_TOKEN' to list summary success-rate/duration/credit-usage metrics per workflow name in the project.
  4. Add query parameter reporting-window (e.g. ?reporting-window=last-30-days) to control the aggregation period for the workflows summary endpoint. Allowed values: last-24-hours, last-7-days, last-30-days, last-60-days, last-90-days; defaults to last-90-days if omitted.
  5. GET https://circleci.com/api/v2/insights/{project-slug}/workflows/{workflow-name}/test-metrics with header 'Circle-Token: $CIRCLE_TOKEN' for per-workflow test metrics including most_failed_tests and slowest_tests.
  6. Reference: https://circleci.com/docs/api/v2/index.html#tag/Insights

Known gotchas

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