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Guides and deep dives.

How-to guides, pattern breakdowns, and project updates.

Essay · reads

You shouldn't be writing comments. And if you do, it should have a reason.

Our pair-programming AI added ~70 narrative comments to our own source during the 0.5 rehaul. Our own tool caught every one. If the tool builder needs the rule, you probably do too.

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Engineering · reads

Agents add. They don't subtract. That's the bug.

Agents add. They don't subtract. The chrome-extension repo went 9 to 68 to 88 almost entirely on dead code removal. Orphan imports. Unused exports. Half refactored functions the agent forgot to delete.

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Pattern Guide · reads

The top 10 AI slop patterns we see often

Ten common patterns in agent-written code, ranked by the risk they add. Each one maps to an aislop rule so you can catch it before review.

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Engineering · reads

What 25 real projects taught us about aislop 0.5

Before tagging aislop 0.5 we ran it against 25 real projects from our own backlog. Here is what broke, what got fixed, and why we moved destructive fixes in-house.

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Release · reads

aislop v0.6.0. Agent hooks for Claude, Cursor, Gemini, and six more

Findings flow back to the agent on the turn it wrote the code. Runtime adapters for Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini. Rules-only installers for six more. Structured feedback contract, quality-gate mode, sentinel-guarded writes.

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Release · reads

aislop v0.5.0. New CLI, own AST fix engine, stable output, better experience

The release where we stopped blindly trusting external fixers with destructive cleanup, wrote our own AST engine, and made aislop fix produce zero phantom diffs on clean repos.

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Release · reads

aislop v0.4.0. Agent Handoff, Smarter Fix, Better Scoring

aislop v0.4.0 ships agent handoff for 14 coding agents, a fix pipeline that leaves clean files alone, and scoring that treats formatting as warnings not errors.

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Tutorial · reads

How to Run aislop in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Bitbucket

Reproducible aislop CI examples for full and changed-file scans, with immutable dependencies, threshold rollout, checkout depth, and troubleshooting guidance.

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Guide · reads

What Is AI Slop? A Practical Definition for Code

AI slop is not simply AI-written code. It is generated output that adds review or maintenance cost without enough value. Learn the patterns and checks.

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Announcement · reads

Why We Built scanaislop: The Problem with Five Linters and No Standard

Every team shipping with AI agents has the same problem. Code that compiles, tests that pass, and a diff that is still a mess. We built aislop because nothing else catches it.

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