ai-slop/thin-wrapper manual fix
Thin wrapper.
A function that exists only to call another function with the same arguments — no transformation, no added value, just an extra layer.
Bad — what an agent ships
// In some/file.ts
export function getUser(id: string) {
return userService.getUser(id)
}
// Callers:
import { getUser } from './some/file'
const user = await getUser(id)Good — what aislop hands back
// Just import directly:
import { userService } from './services'
const user = await userService.getUser(id)Why an AI agent produces this
Agents introduce wrappers preemptively "in case we need to extend it later". They never need to. The wrapper hides the actual call, doubles the import surface, and adds zero value.
Provenance
How this rule is justified.
Rule id
ai-slop/thin-wrapper
Enforcing engine
ai-slop
Detector strategy
Deterministic AST match: flags functions whose body only forwards their parameters unchanged to another call.
Legitimate code that is NOT flagged
Wrappers that transform arguments, add error handling, adapt interfaces, or exist for a documented seam are not flagged.
Evidence
Provenance: repeated across public scans as a speculative indirection layer.