# 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 `concelier.source.http.*` counters/histograms tagged `concelier.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.Concelier.Connector.Vndr.Vmware.Tests`.
- Shared fixtures (e.g., `MongoIntegrationFixture`, `ConnectorTestHarness`) live in `../StellaOps.Concelier.Testing`.
- Keep fixtures deterministic; match new cases to real-world advisories or regression scenarios.

## Required Reading
- `docs/modules/concelier/architecture.md`
- `docs/modules/platform/architecture-overview.md`

## Working Agreement
- 1. Update task status to `DOING`/`DONE` in both correspoding sprint file `/docs/implplan/SPRINT_*.md` and the local `TASKS.md` when you start or finish work.
- 2. Review this charter and the Required Reading documents before coding; confirm prerequisites are met.
- 3. Keep changes deterministic (stable ordering, timestamps, hashes) and align with offline/air-gap expectations.
- 4. Coordinate doc updates, tests, and cross-guild communication whenever contracts or workflows change.
- 5. Revert to `TODO` if you pause the task without shipping changes; leave notes in commit/PR descriptions for context.