dependabit-manifest

name	dependabit-manifest
description	Documentation site for dependabit Use when: Loading an existing manifest to pass to the monitor or detector..

@dependabit/manifest

Documentation site for dependabit

When to Use

Use this skill when:

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

Do NOT use when:

• You want to completely replace the existing manifest — just write updated directly via writeManifest.

API surface: 23 functions, 1 classes, 12 types, 16 constants

NEVER

• The file is parsed as JSON, not YAML. Passing a YAML manifest path will throw a SyntaxError; use readConfig for YAML.
• Writing a manifest with strict: false can persist invalid data that later fails to parse. Prefer strict: true in production pipelines.
• This function performs a read–modify–write cycle. Concurrent calls with the same path and different dependencyId values will race and one write will silently overwrite the other. Use a file lock or serialise calls if running multiple monitors in parallel.
• Duplicate URL detection is exact-match only. Trailing slashes or fragment identifiers will not be treated as duplicates.
• Same race condition as updateDependency applies.
• Matching between existing and updated uses id or url. If the URL of a dependency changes (e.g. a redirect is resolved), the entry will be treated as new and history will not be preserved.
• preserveManual: true can re-add entries that were intentionally removed from the repository. Set it to false when performing a deliberate full refresh.
• YAML comments are parsed but not preserved in the returned object. A subsequent stringifyConfig call will lose all comments.
• Duplicate YAML keys are silently overwritten by the YAML parser (last value wins) — no warning is emitted.
• YAML comments present in the original file are not preserved; this function always produces comment-free YAML.

Configuration

4 configuration interfaces — see references/config.md for details.

Quick Reference

Key functions: readManifest (Reads a manifest JSON file from disk and validates it against DependencyManifestSchema), writeManifest (Serialises a manifest to pretty-printed JSON and writes it to disk), updateDependency (Updates a single dependency entry in the on-disk manifest by ID), addDependency (Appends a new dependency entry to the on-disk manifest), removeDependency (Removes a dependency from the on-disk manifest by ID), mergeManifests (Merges an updated manifest generated by the detector over an existing one, optionally preserving manual entries and accumulated change history), createEmptyManifest (Creates a minimal, valid manifest with an empty dependencies array), readConfig (Reads a YAML configuration file from disk, parses it, and validates it against DependabitConfigSchema), parseConfig (Parses a YAML string into a validated DependabitConfig), stringifyConfig (Serialises a validated DependabitConfig to a YAML string), getEffectiveMonitoringRules (Resolves the effective monitoring rules for a specific dependency URL by merging global config defaults with any per-URL override defined in config), shouldIgnoreUrl(Returnstrueif the given URL matches any exclusion rule defined inconfig) Key classes: ValidationError (Wraps a Zod ZodError to provide human-readable formatted error messages)

52 exports total — see references/ for full API.

References

Load these on demand — do NOT read all at once:

• When calling any function → read references/functions.md for full signatures, parameters, and return types
• When using a class → read references/classes/ for properties, methods, and inheritance
• When defining typed variables or function parameters → read references/types.md
• When using exported constants → read references/variables.md
• When configuring options → read references/config.md for all settings and defaults

Links

• Author: Pradeep Mouli [e-mail] (https://github.com/pradeepmouli)