From 77bce161f1787fac74c8cfa585083acf8db6539f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume FELICIANO <guillaume.feliciano@n8n.io>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:35:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat(n8n Node): Add dependabot and editor extension
 recommendations to the project template

Every n8n-node new scaffold ships lint/format tooling (ESLint, Prettier)
but had no dependabot config to keep its own dependencies current, and
no .vscode/extensions.json nudging contributors toward the matching
editor extensions.

This was found while auditing scaffold drift between n8n-nodes-starter
and the templates it's generated from: n8n-nodes-starter already carries
both files by hand, which is exactly the kind of divergence the new
util-refresh-starter-scaffold.yml workflow in n8n-io/n8n is meant to
catch and close going forward.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 .../shared/default/.github/dependabot.yml          | 14 ++++++++++++++
 .../shared/default/.vscode/extensions.json         |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/shared/default/.github/dependabot.yml
 create mode 100644 packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/shared/default/.vscode/extensions.json

diff --git a/packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/shared/default/.github/dependabot.yml b/packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/shared/default/.github/dependabot.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..31af94fc5f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/shared/default/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: 'npm'
+    directory: '/'
+    schedule:
+      interval: 'weekly'
+    groups:
+      minor-and-patch:
+        update-types: ['minor', 'patch']
+
+  - package-ecosystem: 'github-actions'
+    directory: '/'
+    schedule:
+      interval: 'monthly'
diff --git a/packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/shared/default/.vscode/extensions.json b/packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/shared/default/.vscode/extensions.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cf7697bd313
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/@n8n/node-cli/src/template/templates/shared/default/.vscode/extensions.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+	"recommendations": [
+		"dbaeumer.vscode-eslint",
+		"EditorConfig.EditorConfig",
+		"esbenp.prettier-vscode"
+	]
+}