What I've learned building an agent for Renovate config (as a cautious skeptic of AI)

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As an opportunity to "kick the tyres" of what agents are and how they work, I set aside a couple of hours to see build one - and it blew me away.
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For those who aren't aware, Mend Renovate (aka Renovate CLI aka Renovate) is an Open Source project for automating dependency updates across dozens of package managers and package ecosystems, 9 different platforms (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and more), and boasts support for tuning its behaviour to fit how you want dependency updates.