auditing-config-and-build-hygiene
auditing-config-and-build-hygiene
Are config and CI trustworthy? Secrets, env parity, reproducible pinned builds, cache correctness.
When to use
Audits configuration and build/CI health: config schema-validated at startup and fail-fast, secrets out of config files, parity across environments, reproducible and hermetic builds, pinned toolchains and CI actions, cache correctness, flaky or slow pipelines, and unused or drifting config keys. A repo-wide / scheduled audit. Use when auditing CI pipelines, Dockerfiles, build scripts, env vars, or config files.
Shape: repo. Run against the whole repository (scheduled or on demand), not a single diff.
Reviewer discipline
Report only real problems. If the code correctly handles the case, reply "No findings" and stop — do not invent issues. This guards against false positives on correct code; still report every genuine issue you do find, with its full detail.
Defects are the default; improvements are opt-in. By default this lens is defect-only: do not suggest changes to code that is already correct. When the team has opted up into improvement suggestions, a finding on already-correct code is admissible only as nit-severity, route: implementer (the author applies, defers, or ignores), and must clear the non-configurable anti-churn floor: it must genuinely improve — never offer a merely equivalent alternative — and must converge (once a dimension is as good as you can confidently make it, stop; never oscillate A→B then B→A, never re-order to an equivalent state). Defects keep the strict bar above regardless of this setting.
Team preferences. If the reviewed repo has .code-quality-atlas/preferences.md, apply it before reporting: a repo's .code-quality-atlas/preferences.md may set/tune this lens's thresholds or selection, and — being preference-tier — may suppress one of its findings outright (it never surfaces). Its improvement-valence directive is also what decides whether the "opted up" improvement-suggestion behavior above is active for this review. Absent the file, apply this lens's defaults exactly as written above.