A linter for the patterns AI leaves behind.
Slopgate targets the tells that Copilot, Claude Code, and Cursor leave in a codebase — patterns generic linters miss because they don't know what AI-written code looks like.
Role
AI-code quality guardrail
Year
2026
Surface
CLI · CI integration
Status
Open source
01The problem
The new bugs do not look like the old bugs.
Most linters were written for code humans typed character-by-character. AI-generated code fails differently: plausible imports that don't exist, duplicated helpers across files, error handling that swallows the cause, comments that re-describe instead of explain.
Slopgate catalogs those patterns and flags them at the boundary, before they reach review.
Darkroom red. The drafts pile up. The good one survives.
02The approach
Boring guardrails for an interesting new kind of mess.
Slopgate is a CLI you can install in seconds. It runs locally, in CI, or as a pre-commit hook. Rules are tuned for the actual artifacts the models leave — not for an abstract notion of "AI slop".
Open source on purpose. The whole point is that the rules are visible and challengeable.
Specifications
“You can have AI write the code. You should not let it ship it unchecked.”
— Studio note
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