ci: add the npm ecosystem to Dependabot config

[kaseywright]

Why

.github/dependabot.yml has configured github-actions only — since it was created in April 2026, there has never been an npm entry.

That did not stop npm bumps from arriving. Dependabot security updates run off the alert feed and ignore this file entirely, so every npm pull request this repo has ever received came in that way. The gap was invisible until it wasn't:

• No routine version updates. npm dependencies only ever moved when an advisory forced them.
• One pull request per advisory, ungrouped and without the 7-day cooldown — the same sprawl the github-actions groups were added to prevent. Seven such PRs were open simultaneously this month.
• @dependabot rebase fails on them. The rebase path looks for the ecosystem's entry, doesn't find one, and reports that the entry "has been deleted … Please close the PR so Dependabot can create a new one". That advice is actively harmful here: closing a PR registers the release as declined, and Dependabot stops offering that fix. It's how the axios (4 alerts) and better-auth (1 high) advisories ended up with open alerts and no PR after a batch close on 2026-07-27 — both still unfixed today.

What

Adds an npm entry mirroring the existing github-actions conventions — daily, 7-day cooldown, grouped, labelled.

• Minor + patch grouped, production split from development, so routine churn lands as at most two PRs.
• Majors deliberately ungrouped — each arrives as its own PR with its own changelog to read.
• npm-security group (applies-to: security-updates), same reasoning as the existing github-actions-security group.
• versioning-strategy: increase so Dependabot bumps the minimum of each existing specification rather than widening it — an exact pin stays exact, a caret range keeps its caret at a higher floor. It does not turn a range into a pin; the 8 caret-ranged dependencies (@aws-sdk/*, better-auth, bcryptjs) would need a package.json edit for that, which this PR does not make.

Not covered here

This does not revive the suppressed axios and better-auth updates — a per-release dismissal isn't undone by a config change. Those need a @dependabot reopen on #227 / #242 or a manual bump, tracked separately.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Automated npm dependency updates now run daily with a seven-day cooldown.
  • Related production, development, and security updates are grouped for easier review.
  • Dependency update pull requests now include consistent labels and commit-message prefixes.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Dependabot configuration adds daily npm version updates with a cooldown, PR limit, exact-version increases, grouped updates, labels, and commit-message prefixes.

Changes

NPM Dependabot configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
NPM update schedule and version policy .github/dependabot.yml	Adds daily npm updates with a seven-day cooldown, a five-open-PR limit, and the increase versioning strategy.
NPM update grouping and metadata .github/dependabot.yml	Groups production, development, and security updates. Adds labels and commit-message prefixes for generated pull requests.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9345a

The Dependabot configuration will enable routine npm updates, but it will preserve existing version ranges rather than convert dependencies to exact pins as described. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up if exact pinning is required.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding the npm ecosystem to the Dependabot configuration.

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Explanation

No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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• Commit unit tests in branch ci/dependabot-npm-ecosystem

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Inline comments:
In @.github/dependabot.yml:
- Around line 57-60: Correct the Dependabot configuration comment and
expectations around versioning-strategy: increase: it updates minimum versions
within existing ranges and does not enforce exact dependency pins. If exact pins
are required, update the relevant package.json specifications and lockfile
separately; otherwise remove the claim that increase preserves exact pinning.

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