This file provides instructions for AI coding assistants working on this project.
open-code-review (ocr) is an AI-powered code review CLI tool written in Go (module: github.com/alibaba/open-code-review).
- Before committing, conduct a code review by running:
ocr review --audience agent --background "briefly summarize the background requirements" - Commit messages must be written in English.
- Verify line endings. Line endings must be LF, not CRLF. Run
git add --renormalize .to correct line endings and commit them. New binary files must have their extensions added to .gitattributes.
- Every source file (
.go,.sh,.js,.mjs,.ts,.tsx) must have an SPDX license header. - After creating new files, run
make license-addto add the header automatically.
- After writing code, run
make check. It formats and tidies in place, so there is no need to rungofmtorgo vetseparately. - Source files are written in English — comments, identifiers and strings alike.
make english-checkenforces this in CI. It flags any letter outside ASCII, whichever the writing system (Han, kana, Hangul, Cyrillic, and equally the diacritics that spell German or Vietnamese), plus combining accents and fullwidth punctuation (:,(), which is easy to leave behind in an otherwise English sentence. Symbols and emoji (─ → ≥ ✅) pass, since they are not letters. Prose spelled entirely in ASCII (Loeschen der Datei, or a romanised transcription) takes a dictionary to spot and stays a matter for review. - Translated prose has its own homes, none of them scanned.
README.<locale>.mdandCONTRIBUTING.<locale>.md(zh-CN,ja-JP,ko-KR,ru-RU); the doc pages underpages/src/content/docs/<locale>/(en,zh,ja,ru, Markdown throughout); and the UI copy tables inpages/src/i18n/<locale>.ts. Markdown is out of scope by extension, so translations go there freely. The i18n tables are.tsand would be scanned, so they are exempt by prefix instead — translated UI strings belong in those tables rather than inline in a component. - Two escape hatches for the exceptional case, narrower one preferred. Append an
allow-non-english: <reason>marker comment to the offending line — the right choice for a handful of lines, such as an encoding fixture or a language-switcher label, and it leaves the rest of the file protected. Only for a whole tree that is inherently non-English, add a prefix toallowedPrefixesinscripts/verify-english-only.go; it currently holds justpages/src/i18n/andextensions/vscode/, the latter temporary until the extension's Chinese comments are translated.
- Run unit tests with
make test, notgo testdirectly. make testsetsLC_ALL=Cto ensure git outputs English messages.- When writing or modifying code, add necessary unit tests to maintain coverage. The project enforces a 90% coverage threshold via
make coverage.
- When modifying README.md, always sync the changes to all localized versions:
- README.zh-CN.md
- README.ja-JP.md
- README.ko-KR.md
- README.ru-RU.md