Deslop

Keep cleanup confined to the current diff and strictly behavior-neutral. Use it before requested autoreview; cleanup does not replace correctness or safety review.

For readability choices in the current diff, consult the relevant sections of Readable code on functions, values, composition, and state ownership. Apply those examples within this skill's behavior-neutral scope.

Scope and checklist

Establish the intended branch base from the PR or repository metadata. Inspect committed changes from its merge base to HEAD, plus staged, unstaged, and relevant untracked changes. Preserve unrelated work; never sweep the repository or change the base to make the cleanup larger. Read surrounding code to judge each hunk.

Look for:

• Comments that narrate syntax or repeat code without explaining intent.
• Unnecessary intermediate variables or one-use helpers that add no meaning.
• Type assertions such as as any or as unknown as T that hide a type problem.
• Defensive checks, catch blocks, retries, aliases, or fallbacks that appear inconsistent with the supported contract.
• Naming, imports, formatting, or control flow inconsistent with nearby code and Enterprise style.

These patterns require judgment. Apply only trivial, demonstrably behavior-neutral edits. Removing a guard, catch, retry, fallback, or type cast can change behavior or expose a real type-contract defect: leave uncertain or functional changes in place and report them for separate review. Do not hide errors with wider types or replace security checks with assumptions.

Preserve required intent

Keep real fail-closed checks, authorization and credential boundaries, configuration rejection, and attributable audit behavior. Redundancy alone is not evidence that a security check is removable.

Preserve deferred-work TODOs while the capability remains unimplemented. Preserve integration-test comments that explain scenarios, non-obvious setup, expected outcomes, or security invariants; remove only narration that contributes no such information. Do not label permanent security boundaries as temporary work.

Use enterprise-testing for proportional verification of edits and run git diff --check. If behavior neutrality cannot be established, report the candidate instead of applying it as style work. Summarize in one to three sentences what changed and any non-trivial candidates left for the author.

Provenance

Adapted from OpenClaw; see source and intentional adaptations.