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Summary

First piece of a new discover-third-party-services skill: an agent scans a code repository, finds the third-party vendors it depends on, resolves them against the provider catalog and proposes third-party services to track. This PR adds only the detection reference the forthcoming SKILL.md will load on demand.

skills/discover-third-party-services/reference.md holds:

• the scan sources in priority order (manifests, deploy config, CI, git remotes, env examples) and the directories and files never opened,
• the three classes (runtime, build-time, skip) that decide what lands in the proposal by default,
• the secret-handling rules: git remote URLs reduced to the host with user-info stripped, env files read match-only for vendor hostnames and an allowlist of region keys, evidence limited to path:line, package@version and git remote: <host>,
• the vendor map (signal to catalog search term) with the exact-name acceptance rule and the anchored hostname rule,
• the region-split providers that have no plain-name catalog row (Datadog, PostHog, Intercom),
• the unmapped-signal rule, with a cap on catalog calls for names taken from repository text.

Repository content and tool responses are treated as data, never instructions.

Catalog validation

Every search term was run through search-third-party-providers on 2026-11-04 and returned exactly one row whose name equals the term:

Search term	Provider id
AWS	248
Google Cloud	344
Firebase	1710
Microsoft Azure	1336
Vercel	861
Netlify	52
Fly.io	1711
Render	202
Railway	1646
Heroku	1
Cloudflare	6
Supabase	1124
MongoDB	888
PlanetScale	2789
Neon	2869
Upstash	2870
Algolia	5131
Cloudinary	106
Stripe	801
PayPal	842
Plaid	739
Shopify	1795
Twilio	234
SendGrid	209
Mailgun	48
Postmark	1647
Resend	3221
Slack	3
Pusher	195
Ably	4168
OpenAI	927
Anthropic	3594
Auth0	1794
Clerk	1712
Okta	1670
Sentry	57
New Relic	180
Segment	208
LaunchDarkly	159
PagerDuty	53
Contentful	31
Sanity	285
HubSpot	43
Mapbox	171
GitHub	2
GitLab	1610
Bitbucket	5
CircleCI	6803

Region-split providers, no plain-name row: Datadog (US1 16, US3 2865, US5 5441, EU 2726, AP1 5776, AP2 5777), PostHog (US 3095, EU 7437), Intercom (US 45, EU 3615, AU 3616).

Dropped: Amazon Web Services (catalog name is AWS), MongoDB Atlas (catalog name is MongoDB), Braintree (no provider).

Notes for reviewers

• Docs only. node scripts/generate-agent-skills-index.mjs --check reports a missing SKILL.md for this directory until the next PR adds it; the index workflow only runs on SKILL.md changes, so this PR does not trigger it.
• Three local review passes (correctness, maintainability, adversarial) were run before opening; their findings are in the commit history.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added guidance for identifying third-party services in a repository, distinguishing runtime services from build-time tools and irrelevant matches.
  • Documented safeguards for handling secrets, matching catalog entries, interpreting regional providers, and confirming actions.
  • Added limits for catalog searches, with a prompt to continue when the limit is reached.

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Walkthrough

This change adds a reference for discovering third-party services in a repository. It defines scan sources and safeguards, candidate classifications, provider catalog matching, region selection, and confirmation rules for mapped and unmapped candidates.

Changes

Third-party service discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Scan sources and evidence skills/discover-third-party-services/reference.md	Defines scan exclusions, prioritized sources, and rules for extracting and reporting repository evidence.
Candidate classification and provider matching skills/discover-third-party-services/reference.md	Defines runtime, build-time, and skip classifications, exact catalog matching, and provider-specific signals.
Regional and unmapped provider handling skills/discover-third-party-services/reference.md	Defines region selection and user confirmation steps for regional and unmapped candidates.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related issues

• UPT-4959: Defines the repository-scanning skill and its reference.md deliverable; this change adds the detection reference.

Possibly related PRs

• uptimerobot/ai#20: Documents catalog search, provider selection, and service creation, which connect to the discovery and confirmation rules in this reference.

Suggested reviewers: clovnrian

Merge Risk: Low · previous review fe741

The reference could produce incorrect or incomplete service suggestions when the discovery skill uses it. These bounded issues merit correction, but do not block merging this documentation-only change.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @skills/discover-third-party-services/reference.md:
- Line 16: Update the classification guidance for Dockerfile FROM references and
Compose image registries so they are treated as build-time inputs before runtime
hostname rules are applied. Keep runtime hostnames classified as runtime,
preventing registry hosts such as ECR domains from producing runtime provider
candidates.
- Line 76: Move `cloudbuild.yaml` out of the Google Cloud runtime-provider
signal and into the build-time section; only propose Google Cloud as a runtime
provider when separate runtime evidence supports it. Preserve the other signals
in the existing classification row.
- Line 112: Update the Braintree entry in the reference so it treats “braintree”
as a search term and resolves it against the live catalog; use “not in the
catalog” only if the current exact-name search returns no row.
- Line 15: Update the Package manifests table to define runtime, development,
test, and build dependency scopes for every supported manifest format, including
formats without explicit scope fields. Apply the runtime-by-default
classification only after determining a dependency’s scope, so development,
test, and build dependencies are not proposed as runtime services.
- Line 65: Update the Hostname signals rule to lowercase the parsed host and
remove one trailing root dot before equality and suffix checks. Preserve the
existing domain-boundary matching behavior and the exclusions for deceptive
hostnames.

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