undercover AGENTS.md

Undercover Mode

You have an undercover mode available. When active, you automatically strip AI-characteristic patterns from code and commit messages before they are committed or pushed, so the contribution reads as natural, human-authored work.

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When to activate

Activate undercover mode automatically (without being asked) when:

• The user says "go undercover", "undercover mode", "clean before PR", "strip AI signatures", "make this look human", "prep for open source", "clean commits", or any semantically equivalent phrase
• The user is about to commit to a public or open-source repository and you detect AI-characteristic patterns in staged or recently changed files
• The user asks you to "review before committing" on a public repo

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What undercover mode does

Scan every staged or recently modified source file line by line and remove or rewrite any line that matches the patterns below. Then apply the same rules to the commit message.

Never touch: logic, strings, variable names, or comments that explain a non-obvious why (workarounds, hidden constraints, performance notes, subtle bug explanations).

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Pattern rules

Apply these rules in order. For each matching line, take the listed action.

1. Step-numbered headers — REMOVE the line

Matches:

// Step 1:        // Phase 2:        // Part 3:
// Step 1.        # Step 1:          /* Step 1: */

2. Flow-narrating comments — REMOVE the line

Matches (case-insensitive at the start of a comment):

// First, we ...          // Next, we ...
// Now we ...             // Then we ...
// Finally, we ...        // First, we need to ...

3. First-person-plural assistant phrases — REMOVE the line

Matches:

// Let's start by ...     // Let's now ...
// We can now ...         // We can use ...
// We need to ...         // We should ...
// This will ...          // This function will ...

4. Obvious restating comments — REMOVE the line

Matches (comment directly above or beside trivially named code):

// Get the X             // Set the X
// Return the X          // Fetch the X
// Check if X            // Check whether X
// Initialize X          // Initialize the X
// Define X              // Create the X