ai-slop/unused-import auto-fixable

Unused import.

An import that no remaining code references. Usually left over after a refactor or a deletion the agent forgot to follow through on.

Bad — what an agent ships

import { useEffect, useState, useMemo } from 'react'
import { formatDate } from '../utils/dates'

export function Counter() {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0)
  return <button onClick={() => setCount(c => c + 1)}>{count}</button>
}

Good — what aislop hands back

import { useState } from 'react'

export function Counter() {
  const [count, setCount] = useState(0)
  return <button onClick={() => setCount(c => c + 1)}>{count}</button>
}

Why an AI agent produces this

Agents add imports speculatively then refactor away the consumer; the import lingers because removing it requires re-reading the file end-to-end.

Provenance

How this rule is justified.

Rule id

ai-slop/unused-import

Enforcing engine

ai-slop

Detector strategy

Deterministic AST match: flags imported bindings with zero references in the module.

Legitimate code that is NOT flagged

Side-effect imports, type-only imports that are referenced, and re-exported bindings are not flagged.

Evidence

Unused code appeared across unrelated projects in the first public scan batch.

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