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v2.15.1 Feature

This release adds 2 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

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Topics

ai-coding-assistant archetype ast-analysis claude-code claude-plugin code-conventions
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code-review code-style developer-tools javascript linter mcp mcp-server prompt-engineering python ruby rails typescript

Summary

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Correctness reviewer now uses an explicit defect checklist improving recall without false positives.

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Correctness judge: much higher recall on the defect classes it exists to catch,
with no false-positive cost. The turn-end correctness reviewer (and the
multi-lens correctness lens that shares its prompt) was missing unguarded
dereferences, dropped awaits, and off-by-one errors on real repos. Two prompt
changes fix that, validated on a real TypeScript and a real Ruby repo.

Changed

  • Correctness reviewer now works through an explicit defect checklist. The
    prompt enumerates the defects most often missed and makes the reviewer clear
    each dereference, index, and condition in the diff: optional/absent-on-miss
    lookups dereferenced without a guard (Map.get / .find / .find_by / hash
    index), nilable receivers used without ?. / &. / a guard, dropped awaits,
    off-by-one and index-bounds errors, assignment-in-condition, unreachable code,
    and inverted conditions. A reminder to apply the checklist is re-anchored next
    to each diff so it stays salient on context-heavy repos, and it names the safe
    forms (explicit
    default lookups like fetch(k, default), optional chaining, and an earlier
    early-return guard even when it sits outside the diff) so guarded code is not
    flagged.

  • Correctness-only prompt no longer carries team-idiom guidance or a sibling
    witness by default.
    An interleaved A/B on both repos found that injecting
    the convention guidance and canonical excerpt into this bug-only prompt lowers
    correctness recall with no false-positive benefit: the style context crowds
    out the bug signal the reviewer is already told to ignore for style. The
    correctness lens now gets only correctness-relevant context (the checklist,
    the user's checkable intent tokens, the committed-caller facts, and the diff).
    A new include_style_context flag on build_prompt (default off) lets a
    future style-aware lens opt back in.

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Related context

Earlier breaking changes

  • v3.0.0 MCP surface folded from 48 tools to 19; remaining 32 operator tools become actions on three dispatchers.

Beta — feedback welcome: [email protected]