dependabit

name	dependabit
description	Use when working with dependabit (action, detector, github-client, manifest, monitor, test-utils, utils, plugins, plugin-arxiv, plugin-context7, plugin-skills).

dependabit

Use this skill for ANY work with dependabit. It routes to the correct package.

When to Use

Use this router when:

• Documentation site for dependabit
• Documentation site for dependabit
• Documentation site for dependabit
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• Documentation site for dependabit
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• Documentation site for dependabit
• Documentation site for dependabit
• Documentation site for dependabit
• Documentation site for dependabit

Decision Tree

1. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-action
2. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-detector
3. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-github-client
4. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-manifest
5. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-monitor
6. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-test-utils
7. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-utils
8. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-plugins
9. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-plugin-arxiv
10. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-plugin-context7
11. Documentation site for dependabit? → dependabit-plugin-skills

Routing Logic

action → dependabit-action

Key APIs: Logger, main, createLogger, withTiming

detector → dependabit-detector

• You need to plug in a custom or self-hosted language model as the classification backend for the detector.
• Scanning a freshly-cloned or locally-checked-out repository to build an initial manifest, or during CI to detect newly-introduced dependencies from a commit diff.

Key APIs: GitHubCopilotProvider, Detector, createDetectionPrompt, createClassificationPrompt, parseReadme

github-client → dependabit-github-client

• Making authenticated GitHub API calls from the monitor or action packages where you need integrated rate-limit protection.
• Coordinating large batches of GitHub API calls (e.g., checking 100+ dependencies in one monitor run) where you need pre-flight quota checks.

Key APIs: GitHubClient, AuthManager, IssueManager, createGitHubClient, fetchCommits

manifest → dependabit-manifest

• Loading an existing manifest to pass to the monitor or detector.
• Applying the output of Detector to an existing manifest without losing manually-curated entries or historical change records.
• Parsing config from an in-memory string (e.g., fetched from GitHub API).

Key APIs: ValidationError, validateManifest, validateDependencyEntry, validateConfig

monitor → dependabit-monitor

• Polling a set of tracked dependencies for state changes on a schedule.
• Implementing a custom checker for a new access method (e.g., a proprietary API or registry). Register it with Monitor.registerChecker.
• Implementing a custom checker for a new access method (e.g., a proprietary API or registry). Register it with Monitor.registerChecker.

Key APIs: Monitor, GitHubRepoChecker, URLContentChecker, normalizeHTML, normalizeURL

test-utils → dependabit-test-utils

Key APIs: createMockFn, spyOn, createMockTimer

utils → dependabit-utils

Key APIs: capitalize, camelCase, kebabCase

plugins → dependabit-plugins

• Managing a set of plugins across the lifetime of an application.
• Isolating plugins in a test suite (via createPluginRegistry).
• Loading plugins from dynamic imports, configuration-driven plugin lists, or test fixtures where you want to confirm a plugin satisfies the contract before registering it.

Key APIs: PluginRegistry, PluginLoader, createPluginRegistry, registerPlugin, getPlugin

plugin-arxiv → dependabit-plugin-arxiv

• Tracking research papers that your project cites or implements, to be notified when authors publish revisions.

Key APIs: ArxivChecker, createArxivChecker

plugin-context7 → dependabit-plugin-context7

• Tracking libraries whose documentation is indexed by Context7 (e.g., React, Next.js, Prisma).

Key APIs: Context7Checker, createContext7Checker

plugin-skills → dependabit-plugin-skills

Key APIs: SkillsChecker, createSkillsChecker

Critical Patterns

Top pitfall per package:

• Provider implementations must return valid JSON matching the LLMResponse shape. Returning plain text causes the detector to silently produce zero LLM-sourced results. (detector)
• Primary vs. secondary rate limits: checkRateLimit only checks the primary REST API rate limit. GitHub also enforces secondary (abuse) rate limits on burst patterns (many requests in a short window). A 403 with Retry-After header indicates a secondary limit — this class does not handle that automatically. (github-client)
• The file is parsed as JSON, not YAML. Passing a YAML manifest path will throw a SyntaxError; use readConfig for YAML. (manifest)
• Concurrent update races: if two Monitor instances watch the same dependency and call updateDependency on the shared manifest file simultaneously, one write will silently overwrite the other. Serialise monitor runs or use a single shared Monitor instance. (monitor)
• Silent collision override is intentional by design in the old API; the current implementation throws on collision. Do not assume register is idempotent. (plugins)
• No rate limit handling: burst usage (checking many papers at once) will hit arXiv's rate limit. Add a delay between concurrent checks. (plugin-arxiv)
• Fallback URL hash instability: when the API is unavailable and the checker falls back to direct URL hashing, any dynamic content on the documentation page (e.g., timestamps, ads, CDN-injected nonces) will produce false positive changes. (plugin-context7)

Anti-Rationalization

Thought	Reality
"I'll just use detector for everything"	detector is for documentation site for dependabit. You only need programmatic heuristics — constructing a stub provider that always returns an empty dependencies array has a small overhead but is safe.
"I'll just use github-client for everything"	github-client is for documentation site for dependabit. You need a full Octokit feature set with plugins (e.g., pagination, throttling) — instantiate Octokit directly and pass it to GitHubClient via the constructor is not possible; use the separate RateLimitHandler for advanced budget management.
"I'll just use manifest for everything"	manifest is for documentation site for dependabit. You want to completely replace the existing manifest — just write updated directly via writeManifest.
"I'll just use monitor for everything"	monitor is for documentation site for dependabit. You only need to check a single dependency type — instantiate the specific checker (e.g., GitHubRepoChecker) directly to avoid loading all built-in checkers.
"I'll just use plugins for everything"	plugins is for documentation site for dependabit. Using the globalRegistry singleton directly in tests that run in parallel — mutations to the global registry leak between test cases.
"I'll just use plugin-arxiv for everything"	plugin-arxiv is for documentation site for dependabit. Monitoring large arXiv search result pages — this checker is designed for individual paper IDs only.
"I'll just use plugin-context7 for everything"	plugin-context7 is for documentation site for dependabit. Monitoring libraries without a Context7 entry — the fallback URL hash is very sensitive to dynamic page content. Prefer a specific HTTP checker with normalised content in that case.

Example Invocations

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-action

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-detector

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-github-client

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-manifest

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-monitor

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-test-utils

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-utils

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-plugins

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-plugin-arxiv

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-plugin-context7

User: "I need to documentation site for dependabit"
→ Load dependabit-plugin-skills

NEVER

• NEVER load all package skills simultaneously — pick the one matching your task
• If your task spans multiple packages, load the foundational one first (typically core/shared), then the specific one