Footgun Finder

Mission

Find code and interface shapes where a reasonable future caller, maintainer, user, or reviewer can do the wrong thing easily and believe they did the right thing.

available affordance
+ plausible user/caller belief
+ surprising or dangerous consequence
= footgun candidate

This skill is a read-only review lens. It does not implement fixes, resolve comments, create tickets, or certify closeout. It produces a ranked footgun ledger, mitigation candidates, and handoff routes.

Definition

A footgun is not merely a bug. A footgun is a design or implementation surface that makes misuse likely: