hickey

What problem does it solve? Functional tests confirm code works but reveal nothing about whether it is simple; complected and fragmented code passes tests while silently accumulating accidental complexity that surfaces only when you try to change, reason about, or extend it. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Complecting Detection: Scans code for braided concerns such as mutable state, inheritance, scattered conditionals, and callbacks over mutable state, with a catalog of simpler alternatives. - Fragmentation Detection: Finds domain concepts split across fields, modules, or files whose coherence depends on unenforced conventions, and prescribes reunification at the natural layer. - Self-Verification Checklist: Audits the reviewer's own output for dismissed findings, scope-based evasions, and premature closure phrases before results are presented. - Use Case: Before merging a pull request, run this review to get a structured report of concerns, structural pattern matches with line references, severity assessments, concrete simplifications, and a per-finding action list with fix-or-defer dispositions. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to run a hickey structural simplicity review on the changed files in this pull request.