This topic introduces the components in Detect that are used to examine your code and produce analyzable output.
The components comprise the following:
Tools
Each Detect run consists of running any applicable Detect tools used in the analysis of code.
Detectors
Detect uses detectors, appropriate to your package manager ecosystem, to find and extract dependencies from all supported package managers.
For a quick tutorial on detectors, see: Detectors Introduction.
Inspectors
An inspector is typically a plugin that Detect uses to access the internal resources of a package manager through its API.