Plankton Code Quality

Integration reference for Plankton (credit: @alxfazio), a write-time code quality enforcement system. Plankton runs formatters and linters on every file edit via PostToolUse hooks, then spawns agent subprocesses to fix violations.

When to Use

• Automatic formatting and linting on every file edit (not just at commit time)
• Defense against agents modifying linter configs to pass instead of fixing code
• Tiered model routing for fixes (light model for style, standard for logic, advanced for types)
• Multi-language projects (Python, TypeScript, Shell, YAML, JSON, TOML, Markdown, Dockerfile)

Three-Phase Architecture

Every time an agent edits or writes a file, Plankton's multi_linter.sh PostToolUse hook runs: