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Part XIII — Expert Mode: Systems, Agents, and Automation/38. Building a Code-Change Agent Safely/38.4 Static analysis and lint gates
38.4 Static analysis and lint gates
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Linting as a Tool
Tests are expensive (they take time to run). Linting is cheap.
Run `eslint` or `ruff` immediately after generation. If there is a syntax error, feed it back to the model immediately. Do not even bother running the tests yet.
Type Checking
For TypeScript/Python, `tsc` or `mypy` are your best friends. They catch hallucinations (using non-existent methods) instantly.
Prompt: "Your code has type errors. Here is the output of `tsc`. Fix them."