code-police

You can enforce coding standards by running a structured code review that checks current branch changes for simplicity, correctness, and compliance with project rules. This process highlights dead code, silent error swallowing, and documentation issues to guide maintainability improvements before merge.

The best way to detect dead code and silent error swallowing is using a three-pass code review mechanism that analyzes structural integrity, error handling, and maintainability. It identifies these common mistakes and ensures explicit rationale is provided for design decisions.

Yes, you can validate your branch against project-specific coding policies. The review process applies a defined rule set across three passes, checking for unbounded growth and inconsistent documentation to ensure deviations from focused libraries have explicit rationale.

Structured code review improves error handling and maintainability by guiding reviews through dedicated passes that target structural soundness and explicit rationale. It enforces rules against silent error swallowing and encourages using focused libraries over hand-rolled utilities.

A three-pass code review provides deeper analysis than a standard checklist by separately evaluating structure, error handling, and maintainability. This targeted approach effectively catches unbounded growth, dead code, and missing design rationale, ensuring comprehensive quality gate enforcement before merge.

When enforcing simplicity and correctness, expect limitations related to the scope of the three-pass review, which focuses on code quality, dead code, and error handling. It requires explicit rationale for deviations from focused libraries, meaning complex project-specific architectural rules may need manual validation.