revert.wtf Catalog Research Skill

Use this skill for broad catalog coverage passes: new chains, protocol ecosystems, contract repositories, provider APIs, standards, x402-style flows, explorer APIs, or lifecycle audits.

Research Standard

• Prefer primary sources: official specs, protocol docs, contract repositories, API docs, EIPs/ERCs, release notes, and verified source repositories.
• For current ecosystem status, verify live/current sources before marking something current, renamed, legacy, or sunsetting.
• Keep historical coverage when old contracts can still emit errors. Mark it legacy; do not delete useful entries just because the product is deprecated.
• Distinguish:
  • legacy: deprecated, wound down, or historical but still useful.
  • sunsetting: active enough to matter but tied to an announced shutdown date.
  • renamed: ecosystem branding changed while errors remain relevant.

Workflow

1. Define the coverage target and scope.
2. Inventory current coverage:
   • Search shards in packages/catalog/src/data/shards/.
   • Check packages/catalog/src/sources.ts for lifecycle metadata.
   • Check generated selectors in packages/selectors/src/generated.ts when custom errors are involved.
3. Gather source material and record references in entries or sources.ts.
4. For Solidity custom errors, prefer using scripts/enrich-new-ecosystem-shards.mjs when the target fits its model.
5. Hand-author protocol/provider/API entries when errors are not Solidity custom errors.
6. Regenerate catalog data, run validation, and run the duplicate audit.

Quality Bar

• Entries should be integration-useful, not merely encyclopedic.
• nextSteps should tell an app, wallet, support console, or agent what to do next.
• Avoid "retry later" as a default. Be specific about when retry helps.
• Avoid adding entries from random forum posts unless they are backed by code, docs, or repeated real-world artifacts.
• Avoid massive false-positive substring patterns.

Verification

node scripts/build-catalog-data.mjs --generate --dist --check
node --experimental-strip-types scripts/validate-catalog.ts
node scripts/check-catalog-duplicates.mjs --fail-on=id,same-source-selector
node node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc -p packages/catalog/tsconfig.json --noEmit
node node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc -p packages/parser/tsconfig.json --noEmit

Useful smoke checks:

node --input-type=module -e "import { getCatalog } from './packages/catalog/dist/index.js'; console.log(getCatalog().length)"

If generated source files or dist JSON change, keep them synchronized with the shard source.