Your catalog is lying to you — here's how to fix it
Hey,
Article 2 of the AI-Native IDP series is live:
Teaching Your Catalog to Think
Your service catalog is wrong. Not because someone made a mistake — because nobody has time to keep it right. Descriptions go stale, tags miss new dependencies, owners change without anyone updating the YAML.
In this article:
A .NET AI service that reads source code and generates catalog metadata
A Backstage plugin that runs on a schedule and detects what changed
How to use any OpenAI-compatible API (Scaleway, Mistral, Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI)
The "Do not guess" rule — why hallucinated metadata is worse than no metadata
The AI proposes. The developer reviews. The catalog stays accurate without manual work.
Code is on GitHub: victorZKov/forge
Read it here: Teaching Your Catalog to Think
Next up: AI-Powered Software Templates — describe what you need in plain English, get a scaffolded project with the right dependencies and config.
Victor