Human-Readable Control Flow

When refactoring complex control flow, mirror natural human reasoning patterns:

Related Skills: See refactoring for systematic code audit methodology including branch collapsing and caller counting.

When to Apply This Skill

Use this pattern when you need to:

• Refactor nested conditionals into linear guard-clause control flow.
• Replace mixed throw/return try-catch logic with readable early returns.
• Name booleans and branches to read like natural human reasoning.
• Restructure handlers so failure paths are explicit before the happy path.