Honey Debt

Lever 1 trades code for a known ceiling. That trade is only honest if someone can see it later. Every deliberate simplification carries a shortcut: comment naming its ceiling and the trigger to revisit; this collects them into one ledger. Older code may carry the previous honey: prefix — same convention, harvest both.

Scan

P='(#|//|--|/\*) ?(shortcut|honey):'
if git rev-parse --git-dir >/dev/null 2>&1; then git grep --untracked -nE "$P"
else grep -rnE "$P" . --exclude-dir={node_modules,.git,dist,build,vendor}; fi

Each hit is one row. git grep skips everything gitignored. The comment prefix is what keeps prose that merely mentions the convention out of the ledger.

Output