# AGENTS
## Role
VMware/Broadcom PSIRT connector ingesting VMSA advisories; authoritative for VMware products; maps affected versions/builds and emits psirt_flags.
## Scope
- Discover/fetch VMSA index and detail pages via Broadcom portal; window by advisory ID/date; follow updates/revisions.
- Validate HTML or JSON; extract CVEs, affected product versions/builds, workarounds, fixed versions; normalize product naming.
- Persist raw docs with sha256; manage source_state; idempotent mapping.
## Participants
- Source.Common (HTTP, cookies/session handling if needed, validators).
- Storage.Mongo (document, dto, advisory, alias, affected, reference, psirt_flags, source_state).
- Models (canonical).
- Core/WebService (jobs: source:vmware:fetch|parse|map).
- Merge engine (later) to prefer PSIRT ranges for VMware products.
## Interfaces & contracts
- Aliases: VMSA-YYYY-NNNN plus CVEs.
- Affected entries include Vendor=VMware, Product plus component; Versions carry fixed/fixedBy; tags may include build numbers or ESXi/VC levels.
- References: advisory URL, KBs, workaround pages; typed; deduped.
- Provenance: method=parser; value=VMSA id.
## In/Out of scope
In: PSIRT precedence mapping, affected/fixedBy extraction, advisory references.
Out: customer portal authentication flows beyond public advisories; downloading patches.
## Observability & security expectations
- Metrics: SourceDiagnostics emits shared `feedser.source.http.*` counters/histograms tagged `feedser.source=vmware`, allowing dashboards to measure fetch volume, parse failures, and map affected counts without bespoke metric names.
- Logs: vmsa ids, product counts, extraction timings; handle portal rate limits politely.
## Tests
- Author and review coverage in `../StellaOps.Feedser.Source.Vndr.Vmware.Tests`.
- Shared fixtures (e.g., `MongoIntegrationFixture`, `ConnectorTestHarness`) live in `../StellaOps.Feedser.Testing`.
- Keep fixtures deterministic; match new cases to real-world advisories or regression scenarios.
