Self-hosted alternatives to dependabot
5 self-hosted AI Skills apps to use instead, best rated first.
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open-notebook
Launchopen-notebook is an agent skill for organising research with Open Notebook, a self-hosted alternative to NotebookLM. It arranges sources, notes and AI conversations into research notebooks. Sources can be PDFs, web pages, audio, video and O
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Reactive Resume
LaunchReactive Resume is a free and open-source resume builder for writing resumes and cover letters, checking the work, and tracking job applications. You create a free account, import an existing resume or start from scratch, and see the finish
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self-hosted-funnel-launch
LaunchSelf-hosted funnel launch is an agent skill that takes a funnel from an empty install to published on infrastructure you control, using the Autonnel funnel builder, which is licensed Apache-2.0. The result covers a landing page, checkout, a
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get-convex/convex-backend
LaunchConvex is an open-source reactive database for web app developers. It combines a database, a place to write server functions in pure TypeScript, and client libraries that keep the app's data live, so screens update as the data changes. Beca
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About dependabot

dependabot
Comprehensive guide for configuring and managing GitHub Dependabot
dependabot is an agent skill from the github/awesome-copilot collection that guides the configuration and management of GitHub Dependabot, the built-in dependency tool. It has three capabilities: alerts, which notify when a dependency has a known vulnerability; security updates, which open pull requests to fix vulnerable dependencies; and version updates, which open pull requests to keep dependencies current. All of this is configured in one file, .github/dependabot.yml on the default branch, since GitHub does not support several such files in one repository. The skill follows a configuration workflow that starts by detecting every ecosystem in the repository, meaning every kind of dependency manifest the project uses, and then writes or improves the configuration so each ecosystem is covered with the right schedule, grouping and limits. It is useful for teams whose repositories have several languages or several package folders and who want dependency updates managed consistently. Automatic pull requests can flood a repository if they are not limited, so the skill's settings for schedules and open pull request limits should be set deliberately. Updates should still be tested before they are merged. The skill is installed with the skills CLI from the github/awesome-copilot repository. Its skills.sh page showed about 4.4K installs and passing results from three security audits at the time of the scan.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- github
- Category
- AI Skills
- Website
- github.com/github/awesome-copilot/dependabot