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Find and remove AI-slop comments — ones that restate the code, describe another layer's behavior, or narrate planning that never shipped — while protecting the comments that carry real reasoning. Use when a reviewer calls a comment useless, unclear, or AI-written — including one
Find and remove AI-slop comments — ones that restate the code, describe another layer's behavior, or narrate planning that never shipped — while protecting the comments that carry real reasoning. Use when a reviewer calls a comment useless, unclear, or AI-written — including one a previous cleanup pass already rewrote; when auditing or cleaning up comments and docstrings on a branch, diff, or PR; when comments should be reduced, simplified, or restyled to ASD-STE100 / simplified technical English; when writing or reviewing docstrings for completeness — tuple-return meanings, boolean polarity, silent defaults and fallbacks; when deciding whether new code needs a comment and what it should say; or before sending a change for review.
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A comment earns its place only if it states a fact that is:
Every slop comment fails one of those three clauses. That is the whole diagnosis. The rest of this skill is how to apply it, and — just as important — how to recognize the comments that pass, so a cleanup pass does not delete the reasoning that was worth keeping.
This is the operational form of the familiar rule: comment the why, not the what or the how. Code with descriptive names already tells the reader what it does, and the body is the how — a comment restating either fails clause 2. What the code cannot say is the why: context from outside the file, the business rule being implemented, the design decision that looks wrong until explained (the keep table below). But the folk rule is a compass, not a verdict — a why-shaped sentence still fails when it describes another layer or restates a convention with a documented home (see Abstracting is not the fix either). The three clauses decide, and the burden of proof sits on the comment: the default verdict is delete, and a comment that cannot show a pass does not get one.
Slop is not a length problem. It is a content-selection problem, which is why shortening or generalizing comments makes it worse rather than better (see Trimming is not the fix and Abstracting is not the fix either).
Each mode below is one clause of the test failing. The examples are real; the reviewer reactions are quotes from an actual review.
The comment describes another module's semantics, written from the author's whole-call-graph vantage rather than the reader's.
def retention_config_to_proto(user_parameters: list[UserParameter]) -> RetentionConfig:
"""Project a contract's retention user parameter into the RetentionConfig proto.
No retention parameter means the contract has no override and uses the
package defaults entirely.
"""
"the comment mentions a package and I don't see a package here"
User parameters go in, a proto comes out. No package crosses this boundary. "Uses the package defaults" is the resolver's behavior, one layer up — true of the system, not of this function.
Fix: say what an empty result means at this layer ("the contract stores no override") and stop. Whoever consumes the empty proto decides what to do about it.
Fix, when the wrong-layer sentence justified a gate: replace the collaborator's behavior with the precondition itself. "An organization-level override sets the days for every category" (the setting happens two functions away) becomes "The contract must have no organization-level override." The reason moves out; the condition the body checks stays.
The boundary: describing how the function's own return is derived stays in scope even when a private helper does the arithmetic — that is still this function's input-to-output contract. Out of scope is what happens elsewhere in the system.
Heuristic: name every noun in the comment. If a noun never appears in the parameters, the return type, the body, or the things the body calls, the comment is describing somewhere else.
Second heuristic — the sibling paste-test: would the comment be just as true pasted onto the neighboring declarations in the same file? A comment equally true on every sibling documents the architecture, not this code. If the fact is worth writing down, its home is the module docstring or the convention doc — not one method among the many it applies to.
# The endpoint proto replaces the dataclass request. It also adds `@service_method`.
# TODO: add @service_method and switch to the endpoint proto.
"Seems like a useless AI comment?"
The TODO already carries the fact, in the imperative, in the form someone can act on. The sentence above it is the same fact restated as description.
Fix: delete the prose, keep the TODO. When two adjacent comments say one thing, keep the one that is actionable.
# The caller resolves the current (unsealed) contract
"What does 'unsealed' mean?"
"Sealed" was defined in the module docstring 200 lines above, and this comment uses the negation of that term, so the reader has to find the definition and then invert it.
The instinct is to define the term inline. Check first whether the term is needed at all. Here it was not: the "current contract" query already selects on the absence of a usage invoice, which is the definition of unsealed. The comment restated a filter the query itself expresses.
Fix: deleted, not defined.
Rule: before defining a confusing term, look at whether the code already encodes the concept. A term that needs a definition to earn its place usually did not earn its place.
def validate_retention_overrides(overrides: list[RetentionOverride]) -> None:
"""Validate sparse numeric contract retention overrides."""
The name says validate. The parameter says retention overrides. -> None says it either raises or does nothing. "Sparse" and "numeric" are properties of the type. Zero information.
Fix: a docstring on a function this well-named earns its place only by saying what the validation rejects, what it raises, or that it is the sole enforcement point for an invariant. If none of that is true, delete it.
Comments about work that does not exist yet ("this arrives when a sibling service needs to write retention"), phase and step labels (P1, M1, "Step 1b"), ticket IDs, links to internal planning documents.
The reader cannot verify any of it from the repository, and it goes stale the moment plans change. Commit messages and the ticket are the durable homes for intent; in code it reads as the author narrating their own roadmap.
Historical claims are the backward mirror: "that tier never dropped" is about past config, and nothing in the code can confirm it. State the condition the body checks instead (downsampled_days == THIRTEEN_MONTHS).
Fix: delete. If the code genuinely depends on future work, that dependency belongs in a TODO that names the concrete thing to do here.
# A write here never reaches the live successor and it rewrites the sealed record.
raise ContractSealedError(...)
Stated as present-tense fact, but the code raises precisely to prevent it. The reader has to work out that the sentence describes the world where the guard is absent.
Fix: use the conditional. "A write here would not reach the live successor and would rewrite the sealed record." One word turns a contradiction into the reason the guard exists.
# Increment the retry count by 1
retries += 1
The line already says it. Reserve the comment for the fact the line cannot carry — why three retries, which upstream API returns spurious 500s.
A comment is load-bearing if deleting it leaves a reader with a question the code cannot answer. Keep these, and keep them even when they are wordy:
| Keep when the comment... | Test |
|---|---|
| explains why this approach and not the obvious one | Would a competent reader "simplify" the code away if the comment were gone? |
| names a race, a lock's purpose, or an ordering constraint | Does it say what breaks without the ordering? |
| states an invariant and what enforces it | Is the invariant impossible to see from one function? |
| carries context from an external system, spec, or business rule | Is that fact unavailable anywhere else in the repo? |
| records a deliberate trade-off | Does it name the cost that was accepted? |
| justifies a guard that looks removable | Would deleting the guard still pass the tests? |
Two that pass:
# isdigit() alone also accepts digits int() cannot parse, such as superscripts,
# and this guard must return False rather than raise
# Read the raw column: loading the invoice itself would cost a query on every
# sealed contract
Both state a fact that is invisible in the code and true at this layer. Neither is short.
The default is delete. The burden of proof sits on the comment: a keep must show its pass — name the row of this table it satisfies and the fact the code cannot state. "It might help someone" is not a pass; every slop comment might help someone. Doubt protects exactly one shape of comment: one that asserts a why — a rationale, an ordering constraint, a trade-off — that you cannot cheaply verify from the code in front of you. Deleting a real rationale costs the next person the bug it was preventing, which is worse than any bland comment; a comment of that shape survives being torn over. A restatement of the visible never does.
The audit decides what a docstring may not say. For the ones that stay — and any you write — four gaps recur once the slop is gone, each a fact the signature genuinely cannot carry (these are mode 4's pass conditions, stated generatively):
tuple[bool, bool] explains nothing; "The first value is for the standard tier. The second value is for the downsampled tier. A value is true when the grandfathering includes that tier."not _tier_overridden(...)) — the reader sees the negation and cannot tell which polarity means what.else 0, a fallback= argument, an early return of an empty set. Each undocumented branch gets its own sentence.When you are writing or changing code — not just auditing its comments — the order is: make the code state the what (descriptive names, extracted variables, named constants), then comment only the why that survives. A name cannot drift from the code the way a comment can, and nobody has to decide later whether it earned its place.
# The comment carries what a name could:
n = 3 # maximum retry attempts
# The name carries it, and no comment is needed:
MAX_RETRY_ATTEMPTS = 3
I
name: comment-slop description: "Find and remove AI-slop comments — ones that restate the code, describe another layer's behavior, or narrate planning that never shipped — while protecting the comments that carry real reasoning. Use when a reviewer calls a comment useless, unclear, or AI-written — including one a previous cleanup pass already rewrote; when auditing or cleaning up comments and docstrings on a branch, diff, or PR; when comments should be reduced, simplified, or restyled to ASD-STE100 / simplified technical English; when writing or reviewing docstrings for completeness — tuple-return meanings, boolean polarity, silent defaults and fallbacks; when deciding whether new code needs a comment and what it should say; or before sending a change for review." license: MIT
---
name: comment-slop
description: "Find and remove AI-slop comments — ones that restate the code, describe another layer's behavior, or narrate planning that never shipped — while protecting the comments that carry real reasoning. Use when a reviewer calls a comment useless, unclear, or AI-written — including one a previous cleanup pass already rewrote; when auditing or cleaning up comments and docstrings on a branch, diff, or PR; when comments should be reduced, simplified, or restyled to ASD-STE100 / simplified technical English; when writing or reviewing docstrings for completeness — tuple-return meanings, boolean polarity, silent defaults and fallbacks; when deciding whether new code needs a comment and what it should say; or before sending a change for review."
license: MIT
---
# Comment Slop
A comment earns its place only if it states a fact that is:
1. **True at this layer** — about the code it sits on, not a caller's or a callee's behavior.
2. **Not already visible** in the code in front of the reader.
3. **Not stated better nearby** — in the signature, in the module docstring, in a test name, or on the very next line.
Every slop comment fails one of those three clauses. That is the whole diagnosis. The rest of this skill is how to apply it, and — just as important — how to recognize the comments that pass, so a cleanup pass does not delete the reasoning that was worth keeping.
This is the operational form of the familiar rule: **comment the why, not the what or the how.** Code with descriptive names already tells the reader what it does, and the body is the how — a comment restating either fails clause 2. What the code cannot say is the why: context from outside the file, the business rule being implemented, the design decision that looks wrong until explained (the keep table below). But the folk rule is a compass, not a verdict — a why-shaped sentence still fails when it describes another layer or restates a convention with a documented home (see *Abstracting is not the fix either*). The three clauses decide, and the burden of proof sits on the comment: the default verdict is delete, and a comment that cannot show a pass does not get one.
Slop is not a length problem. It is a content-selection problem, which is why shortening or generalizing comments makes it worse rather than better (see *Trimming is not the fix* and *Abstracting is not the fix either*).
## When to Use
- A reviewer says a comment is useless, confusing, or "seems like an AI comment"
- Cleaning up comments and docstrings on a branch or PR before sending it for review
- A comment uses a term the reader has to go look up, or describes machinery that is not in the file
- Auditing agent-written or generated code for filler prose
## Failure modes
Each mode below is one clause of the test failing. The examples are real; the reviewer reactions are quotes from an actual review.
### 1. Wrong layer
The comment describes another module's semantics, written from the author's whole-call-graph vantage rather than the reader's.
```python
def retention_config_to_proto(user_parameters: list[UserParameter]) -> RetentionConfig:
"""Project a contract's retention user parameter into the RetentionConfig proto.
No retention parameter means the contract has no override and uses the
package defaults entirely.
"""
```
> *"the comment mentions a package and I don't see a package here"*
User parameters go in, a proto comes out. No package crosses this boundary. "Uses the package defaults" is the *resolver's* behavior, one layer up — true of the system, not of this function.
**Fix**: say what an empty result means *at this layer* ("the contract stores no override") and stop. Whoever consumes the empty proto decides what to do about it.
**Fix, when the wrong-layer sentence justified a gate**: replace the collaborator's behavior with the precondition itself. "An organization-level override sets the days for every category" (the setting happens two functions away) becomes "The contract must have no organization-level override." The reason moves out; the condition the body checks stays.
**The boundary**: describing how the function's **own return is derived** stays in scope even when a private helper does the arithmetic — that is still this function's input-to-output contract. Out of scope is what happens *elsewhere in the system*.
**Heuristic**: name every noun in the comment. If a noun never appears in the parameters, the return type, the body, or the things the body calls, the comment is describing somewhere else.
**Second heuristic — the sibling paste-test**: would the comment be just as true pasted onto the neighboring declarations in the same file? A comment equally true on every sibling documents the architecture, not this code. If the fact is worth writing down, its home is the module docstring or the convention doc — not one method among the many it applies to.
### 2. Redundant with the line next to it
```python
# The endpoint proto replaces the dataclass request. It also adds `@service_method`.
# TODO: add @service_method and switch to the endpoint proto.
```
> *"Seems like a useless AI comment?"*
The TODO already carries the fact, in the imperative, in the form someone can act on. The sentence above it is the same fact restated as description.
**Fix**: delete the prose, keep the TODO. When two adjacent comments say one thing, keep the one that is actionable.
### 3. Undefined term at the point of use
```python
# The caller resolves the current (unsealed) contract
```
> *"What does 'unsealed' mean?"*
"Sealed" was defined in the module docstring 200 lines above, and this comment uses the *negation* of that term, so the reader has to find the definition and then invert it.
The instinct is to define the term inline. Check first whether the term is needed at all. Here it was not: the "current contract" query already selects on the absence of a usage invoice, which *is* the definition of unsealed. The comment restated a filter the query itself expresses.
**Fix**: deleted, not defined.
**Rule**: before defining a confusing term, look at whether the code already encodes the concept. A term that needs a definition to earn its place usually did not earn its place.
### 4. Restates the signature
```python
def validate_retention_overrides(overrides: list[RetentionOverride]) -> None:
"""Validate sparse numeric contract retention overrides."""
```
The name says validate. The parameter says retention overrides. `-> None` says it either raises or does nothing. "Sparse" and "numeric" are properties of the type. Zero information.
**Fix**: a docstring on a function this well-named earns its place only by saying what the validation *rejects*, what it raises, or that it is the sole enforcement point for an invariant. If none of that is true, delete it.
### 5. Forward references, history, and planning artifacts
Comments about work that does not exist yet ("this arrives when a sibling service needs to write retention"), phase and step labels (P1, M1, "Step 1b"), ticket IDs, links to internal planning documents.
The reader cannot verify any of it from the repository, and it goes stale the moment plans change. Commit messages and the ticket are the durable homes for intent; in code it reads as the author narrating their own roadmap.
Historical claims are the backward mirror: "that tier never dropped" is about past config, and nothing in the code can confirm it. State the condition the body checks instead (`downsampled_days == THIRTEEN_MONTHS`).
**Fix**: delete. If the code genuinely depends on future work, that dependency belongs in a TODO that names the concrete thing to do here.
### 6. Prose that contradicts the code
```python
# A write here never reaches the live successor and it rewrites the sealed record.
raise ContractSealedError(...)
```
Stated as present-tense fact, but the code raises precisely to prevent it. The reader has to work out that the sentence describes the world where the guard is absent.
**Fix**: use the conditional. "A write here *would not* reach the live successor and *would* rewrite the sealed record." One word turns a contradiction into the reason the guard exists.
### 7. Narrating the code
```python
# Increment the retry count by 1
retries += 1
```
The line already says it. Reserve the comment for the fact the line cannot carry — why three retries, which upstream API returns spurious 500s.
## What to keep
A comment is load-bearing if deleting it leaves a reader with a question the code cannot answer. Keep these, and keep them even when they are wordy:
| Keep when the comment... | Test |
|---|---|
| explains **why** this approach and not the obvious one | Would a competent reader "simplify" the code away if the comment were gone? |
| names a race, a lock's purpose, or an ordering constraint | Does it say what breaks without the ordering? |
| states an invariant and what enforces it | Is the invariant impossible to see from one function? |
| carries context from an external system, spec, or business rule | Is that fact unavailable anywhere else in the repo? |
| records a deliberate trade-off | Does it name the cost that was accepted? |
| justifies a guard that looks removable | Would deleting the guard still pass the tests? |
Two that pass:
```python
# isdigit() alone also accepts digits int() cannot parse, such as superscripts,
# and this guard must return False rather than raise
```
```python
# Read the raw column: loading the invoice itself would cost a query on every
# sealed contract
```
Both state a fact that is invisible in the code and true at this layer. Neither is short.
**The default is delete.** The burden of proof sits on the comment: a keep must show its pass — name the row of this table it satisfies and the fact the code cannot state. "It might help someone" is not a pass; every slop comment might help someone. Doubt protects exactly one shape of comment: one that asserts a why — a rationale, an ordering constraint, a trade-off — that you cannot cheaply verify from the code in front of you. Deleting a real rationale costs the next person the bug it was preventing, which is worse than any bland comment; a comment of that shape survives being torn over. A restatement of the visible never does.
## What a docstring must state
The audit decides what a docstring may *not* say. For the ones that stay — and any you write — four gaps recur once the slop is gone, each a fact the signature genuinely cannot carry (these are mode 4's pass conditions, stated generatively):
- **Tuple returns**: which position is which, and what each value means. A bare `tuple[bool, bool]` explains nothing; "The first value is for the standard tier. The second value is for the downsampled tier. A value is true when the grandfathering includes that tier."
- **Boolean polarity**, especially when the body computes by negation (`not _tier_overridden(...)`) — the reader sees the negation and cannot tell which polarity means what.
- **Silent defaults and fallbacks**: an `else 0`, a `fallback=` argument, an early return of an empty set. Each undocumented branch gets its own sentence.
- **One word for one concept across siblings**: a trio of related functions all say *includes*; a pair of tuple-returners both say *first value / second value*. A synonym forces the reader to check whether it names the same thing (mode 3's cost, in reverse).
## The what belongs in the code
When you are writing or changing code — not just auditing its comments — the order is: make the code state the *what* (descriptive names, extracted variables, named constants), then comment only the *why* that survives. A name cannot drift from the code the way a comment can, and nobody has to decide later whether it earned its place.
```python
# The comment carries what a name could:
n = 3 # maximum retry attempts
# The name carries it, and no comment is needed:
MAX_RETRY_ATTEMPTS = 3
```
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License: MIT
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