Update Integrations

Update Integration Documentation Links & API Reference Data

This skill synchronizes the integration package catalog with documentation URL mappings and generates per-package API reference schemas. It ensures every NuGet package listed in the integrations data file has a corresponding documentation link and an up-to-date API reference JSON file.

Automation note: The scheduled update-integration-data workflow (.github/workflows/update-integration-data.yml) runs this update deterministically — no agent/LLM. It executes src/frontend/scripts/update-integration-data.ps1, which runs pnpm update:all, detects "version": changes in src/frontend/src/data/aspire-integrations.json, and — only when a version actually moves — runs the C# and TypeScript API regeneration (and the twoslash bundle) before opening a PR via the Aspire bot GitHub App. You can reproduce the full flow locally with pwsh src/frontend/scripts/update-integration-data.ps1 (add -SkipRegen for a fast data-only run). Use this skill for manual or one-off runs that need judgment — for example: adding a new integration, reconciling integration-docs.json, validating release-branch feed resolution, troubleshooting a regen failure flagged by the workflow's PR, or regenerating data outside the scheduled cadence.

Overview

The aspire.dev site maintains three key data locations:

• src/frontend/src/data/aspire-integrations.json — Package metadata fetched from the configured package feeds (titles, descriptions, icons, versions, download counts).
• src/frontend/src/data/integration-docs.json — Mappings from package names to site-relative documentation URLs.
• src/frontend/src/data/pkgs/ — Per-package API reference JSON files (e.g. Aspire.Hosting.Redis.13.1.2.json) generated by the PackageJsonGenerator tool. These feed the auto-generated API reference pages at /reference/api/.
• src/frontend/src/data/ts-modules/ — Per-package TypeScript API reference JSON files (e.g. Aspire.Hosting.Redis.13.2.0.json) generated by the AtsJsonGenerator tool. These feed the auto-generated TypeScript API reference pages at /reference/api/typescript/.
• src/frontend/src/data/twoslash/aspire.d.ts — A single consolidated TypeScript declaration bundle generated from the ts-modules JSON by scripts/generate-twoslash-types.ts. Consumed by expressive-code-twoslash to provide hover tooltips for TypeScript code samples in the docs. Source-controlled — commit the diff whenever ts-modules changes.

This skill keeps the documentation mappings in sync with the package catalog and regenerates both the C# and TypeScript API reference data.

Prerequisites

• Node.js installed and available on PATH
• .NET SDK installed and available on PATH (required for the PackageJsonGenerator tool)
• PowerShell (pwsh) available on PATH (for running the generation script)
• Working directory is the repository root
• The frontend project dependencies are installed (pnpm install in src/frontend/)

Release branch package source behavior

• On main and all non-release/* branches, official Aspire packages resolve from https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
• On release/* branches, official packages (Aspire.*) must resolve from the branch-specific public Azure Artifacts feed instead of nuget.org
• Community Toolkit packages (CommunityToolkit.Aspire.*) always resolve from nuget.org
• The branch name in this repo is expected to match the corresponding branch in microsoft/aspire (for example release/13.2)
• The release feed name follows darc-pub-microsoft-aspire-{shortSha} where {shortSha} is the first 8 characters of the head commit SHA for the matching Aspire release branch
• The automation derives the NuGet service index from that feed name as https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/dnceng/public/_packaging/{feed-name}/nuget/v3/index.json

Release feed resolution

The scripts use this precedence on release/* branches:

1. ASPIRE_RELEASE_FEED_URL — accepts the full NuGet service index URL, the Azure DevOps feed page URL, or the raw feed name
2. ASPIRE_RELEASE_FEED_NAME — explicit feed name such as darc-pub-microsoft-aspire-aad16017
3. ASPIRE_RELEASE_COMMIT / ASPIRE_RELEASE_COMMIT_SHA — derives the feed name from the commit SHA prefix
4. Automatic lookup of the matching branch head via git ls-remote against https://github.com/microsoft/aspire

If the Aspire release branch is not publicly reachable yet, set one of the override environment variables above. The scripts intentionally fail on release/* if the official release feed cannot be resolved, to avoid accidentally ingesting stale nuget.org packages.

Step-by-Step Process

1. Run the update script

Fetch the latest package data from the configured package feeds:

pnpm --dir ./src/frontend update:integrations

This writes updated package metadata to src/frontend/src/data/aspire-integrations.json. The script queries the NuGet v3 API for packages matching owner:aspire, Aspire.Hosting., and CommunityToolkit.Aspire, then filters out deprecated, unlisted, and excluded packages.

On release/* branches, the script queries the branch-specific official Aspire feed for Aspire.* packages and continues to query nuget.org for CommunityToolkit.Aspire.* packages.

2. Read the updated package data

Load src/frontend/src/data/aspire-integrations.json and extract all package names from the title field of each entry in the JSON array.

3. Update integration documentation mappings

Load src/frontend/src/data/integration-docs.json and reconcile it with the package list:

• For each package name (from title field) in aspire-integrations.json:

  • Check if a matching entry exists in integration-docs.json (where match equals the package name)
  • If an entry exists, verify the href is correct
  • If no entry exists, determine the appropriate documentation URL

• Remove stale entries from integration-docs.json that reference packages no longer in aspire-integrations.json

• Preserve existing correct mappings — do not change entries that are already accurate

4. Determining documentation URLs

When a package has no existing mapping, determine the URL based on:

Package name patterns

Technology categories

The documentation site organizes integrations into these categories:

URL resolution strategy

1. Match against existing similar package mappings in integration-docs.json
2. Infer from the package name and technology category
3. Verify the page exists — check the file system under src/frontend/src/content/docs/, then use Playwright CLI to confirm the route renders
4. If no valid documentation page can be found, flag the package for manual review

5. Generate API reference data

After updating the integration catalog, regenerate the per-package API reference JSON files. The generate-package-json.ps1 script automates this:

cd src/tools/PackageJsonGenerator && pwsh ./generate-package-json.ps1

The script performs the following for every package listed in aspire-integrations.json:

1. Resolves the correct package source per package: official Aspire packages use the branch-specific release feed on release/*, while Community Toolkit packages continue to use nuget.org.
2. Queries that package source for the latest stable version (falls back to latest preview if no stable exists).
3. Downloads the package into the local NuGet cache via dotnet restore if not already cached.
4. Selects the best-matching target framework folder (prefers net10.0, then net9.0, etc.).
5. Uses Roslyn to analyze the assembly and extract all public types, members, XML docs, and attributes.
6. Writes a {Package}.{Version}.json file to src/frontend/src/data/pkgs/.

The generated JSON follows this schema:

{
  "package": {
    "name": "Aspire.Hosting.Redis",
    "version": "13.1.2",
    "targetFramework": "net10.0"
  },
  "types": [
    {
      "name": "TypeName",
      "fullName": "Namespace.TypeName",
      "namespace": "Namespace",
      "kind": "class",
      "accessibility": "public",
      "members": [ ... ],
      "docs": { ... }
    }
  ]
}

These files are consumed by the packages content collection defined in src/frontend/src/content.config.ts and used to render API reference pages at /reference/api/{package}/{type}/.

Selective regeneration

To regenerate API data for specific packages only:

pwsh ./generate-package-json.ps1 -Packages @("Aspire.Hosting.Redis", "Aspire.Hosting.PostgreSQL")

Targeting a different framework

To use a different target framework (e.g. net10.0):

pwsh ./generate-package-json.ps1 -Framework "net10.0"

Handling failures

The script reports a summary of successes, failures, and skipped packages. Common reasons for skips or failures:

• Package has no lib/ folder (meta-packages, build-only packages)
• No DLLs found for the preferred TFM
• NuGet API resolution failure

Packages that fail should be investigated individually — they may need a different framework target or may not ship a public API surface.

If an official release feed is required but not yet publicly reachable, rerun with one of the release feed override environment variables set.

5a. Generate TypeScript API reference data

After updating aspire-integrations.json, regenerate the TypeScript API reference JSON files for the hosting packages that expose ATS capabilities:

pnpm --filter ./src/frontend run update:ts-api

The companion generate-ts-api-json.ps1 script reads the generated C# package JSON files in src/frontend/src/data/pkgs/, selects Aspire.Hosting, Aspire.Hosting.*, and CommunityToolkit.Aspire.Hosting.* packages, and passes each package/version through to aspire sdk dump. This keeps src/frontend/src/data/ts-modules/ aligned with the same package set and versions that already flowed through C# API generation.

When a TypeScript module is regenerated for a new package version, stale ts-modules JSON files for older versions of that same package are deleted automatically. Regenerated modules with no functions or types are omitted from src/frontend/src/data/ts-modules/.

After the JSON is refreshed, update-ts-api automatically chains generate-twoslash-types.ts to rebuild src/frontend/src/data/twoslash/aspire.d.ts. This bundle is source-controlled and its diff must be committed alongside the ts-modules JSON changes — without it, docs hover tooltips fall back to any. If you only need to refresh the bundle (e.g. after a generator script change) without running the full SDK dump, use:

cd src/frontend && pnpm twoslash-types

6. Verify all links

For every entry in the updated integration-docs.json:

• Site-relative links must end with a trailing /
• External links (e.g., AWS docs) are allowed and should use full URLs
• All site-relative links must point to existing documentation pages — check by verifying a corresponding .mdx file exists under src/frontend/src/content/docs/

Do not assume a page exists without verification.

7. Save the result

Write the updated integration-docs.json maintaining consistent formatting (2-space indentation, trailing newline). The API reference JSON files in src/frontend/src/data/pkgs/ are written directly by the generation script and require no additional save step.

Run the structured-data tests after changing the catalog or documentation map:

pnpm --dir ./src/frontend test:unit:structured-data

Entry format

Each entry in integration-docs.json follows this structure:

{
  "match": "Aspire.Hosting.Redis",
  "href": "/integrations/caching/redis/redis-get-started/"
}

• match — The exact NuGet package name (from the title field in aspire-integrations.json)
• href — A site-relative path (with trailing /) or an external URL

Handling unmapped packages

When a package name has no clear documentation mapping:

1. Do not invent a URL — only use paths that correspond to real pages
2. List the package for manual review with a note explaining why no mapping was found
3. These packages likely need new documentation pages written (hand off to the doc-writer skill)

Example output

After running this skill, the agent should report:

• Number of packages in aspire-integrations.json
• Number of mapped entries in integration-docs.json
• Any new mappings added
• Any stale mappings removed
• Any packages that could not be mapped (flagged for manual review)
• Number of API reference JSON files generated (success / failed / skipped)
• Any packages that failed API generation, with reasons
• Confirmation that src/frontend/src/data/twoslash/aspire.d.ts was refreshed (and that the diff will be committed)