aislop
Catch and fix the code-quality issues AI coding agents leave behind - dead code, unsafe casts, swallowed errors, duplication, security risks, and more. 50+ deterministic rules across 10 language targets, with CLI, CI, and GitHub Actions. No LLM at runtime. MIT.
aislop is an open-source linters and formatters project on GitHub under the MIT license (permissive), with 726 stars. It is built with TypeScript, V8, react and Vite. Its last push was today.
- Stars
- 726
- License
- MIT
- Activity
- Active
- Latest release
- v0.20.0
Judgement
- What it is
- Developer tool
- What it does
- A deterministic code scanner with 50+ rules across 11 languages that flags patterns AI coding agents leave behind, such as swallowed errors, unsafe casts, dead code and duplicated helpers. It scores each change from 0 to 100 and can run as an agent hook or in GitHub Actions.
- Adopt it when
- A large share of your code is written by coding agents and you want a repeatable quality gate that uses no model at run time.
- Watch out
- Version 0.x with rules based on the authors' view of what counts as slop, so expect false positives and tune it.
- Ready for
- Usable
- Runs as
- Command line
- Built with
- TypeScript and Node.js
- How established
- Young: started 8 months ago, latest release v0.20.0.
- What the license allows
- You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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