aliyun-openapi-discovery

Research

Use when discovering and reconciling Alibaba Cloud product catalogs from Ticket System, Support & Service, and BSS OpenAPI; fetch OpenAPI product/version/API metadata; and summarize API coverage to plan new skills. Use when you need a complete product list, product-to-API mapping, or coverage/gap reports for skill generation.

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How to use this skill

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Alibaba Cloud Product + API Discovery

Follow this workflow to collect products, resolve API metadata, and build summaries for skill planning.

Workflow

Fetch product lists from the three sources

Ticket System (ListProducts)
Support & Service (ListProductByGroup)
BSS OpenAPI (QueryProductList)

Run the bundled scripts (from this skill folder):

python scripts/products_from_ticket_system.py
python scripts/products_from_support_service.py
python scripts/products_from_bssopenapi.py

Provide required env vars in each script (see references).

Merge product lists

python scripts/merge_product_sources.py

This writes output/product-scan/merged_products.json and .md.

Fetch OpenAPI metadata product list

python scripts/products_from_openapi_meta.py

This writes output/product-scan/openapi-meta/products.json and products_normalized.json.

Fetch OpenAPI API docs per product/version

python scripts/apis_from_openapi_meta.py

By default this can be large. Use filters for dry runs:

OPENAPI_META_MAX_PRODUCTS=10
OPENAPI_META_PRODUCTS=Ecs,Ons
OPENAPI_META_VERSIONS=2014-05-26

Join products with API counts

python scripts/join_products_with_api_meta.py

Summarize products by category/group

python scripts/summarize_openapi_meta_products.py

(Optional) Compare products vs existing skills

python scripts/analyze_products_vs_skills.py

Output discipline

All generated files must go under output/. Do not place temporary files elsewhere.

Validation

mkdir -p output/aliyun-openapi-discovery
for f in skills/platform/openapi/aliyun-openapi-discovery/scripts/*.py; do
  python3 -m py_compile "$f"
done
echo "py_compile_ok" > output/aliyun-openapi-discovery/validate.txt

Pass criteria: command exits 0 and output/aliyun-openapi-discovery/validate.txt is generated.

Output And Evidence

Save artifacts, command outputs, and API response summaries under output/aliyun-openapi-discovery/.
Include key parameters (region/resource id/time range) in evidence files for reproducibility.

Prerequisites

Configure least-privilege Alibaba Cloud credentials before execution.
Prefer environment variables: ALIBABACLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_ID, ALIBABACLOUD_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET, optional ALIBABACLOUD_REGION_ID.
If region is unclear, ask the user before running mutating operations.

References

Product source APIs: see references/product-sources.md
OpenAPI meta endpoints: see references/openapi-meta.md