When you modify your Renovate config, you typically need to merge to main and wait for Renovate to run to see if your changes work. This makes debugging slow and painful.
Instead, you can run Renovate locally with --platform=local to verify your config changes without pushing to remote. This lets you see exactly which files are detected, which dependencies would be updated, and whether your packageRules are matching correctly.
For a quick sanity check, run Renovate with --dry-run=lookup. This shows a summary of detected managers and dependency counts without the verbose debug output.