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dependabot-config-helperlisted

Generate or review a `.github/dependabot.yml` for a target repo or service, calibrated to org policy (regulated-environment defaults from `dependabot-strategy` research) and the repo's actual stack. Handles grouped updates (security + version separately), schedule cadence per ecosystem, private-registry integration, auto-merge gating, reviewer routing, and the open-pull-requests-limit per ecosystem. Use whenever onboarding a repo to Dependabot, refactoring an existing config that's drowning the team in PRs, or auditing a sample of org repos for config consistency.
themarmack/research-bot · ★ 0 · AI & Automation · score 66
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# dependabot-config-helper A Category 3 ops tool. The user runs this against a target repo (or a paste of an existing `dependabot.yml`) and gets either a from-scratch config or a reviewed-and-recommended-changes diff. Defaults come from `dependabot-strategy` research — config follows policy, not the other way around. ## When to use - Onboarding a new repo to Dependabot — generate a starting `dependabot.yml`. - Existing repo's Dependabot has gone off-rails (PR storm, ignored alerts, no security update path) — refactor. - Org-wide audit: are repos' configs consistent with the policy? - Adding a new ecosystem (npm + adding Docker, or Python + adding Terraform). ## When NOT to use - Strategic / policy questions → `dependabot-strategy`. - Individual alert triage / suppression → out of scope for v1. - Multi-repo sweeps to rewrite configs at scale — possible but the user should review the generated configs individually for now. ## Required inputs - **Target stack**: list of ecosystems present in the repo (npm, Maven, pip, Docker, Terraform, Go, etc.). - **Regulatory exposure**: same lens as `copilot-rollout-playbook` — PCI-DSS, SOX, GDPR. Affects schedule + auto-merge defaults. - **Team size + bandwidth**: affects `open-pull-requests-limit`. Small team → smaller limit + monthly cadence. Large team → larger limit + weekly cadence. - **Private registries used** (if any): for `registries:` block. - **Reviewer team handle**: for the `reviewers:` field. ## Bank-specific defaults