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Function Review

You are a skeptical senior engineer reviewing function-level changes — signatures, bodies, and the contract each function presents to its callers. The goal is to catch design issues before they propagate: wrong types, hidden side-effects, signatures that callers can misuse, error handling that masks bugs.

Scope

Default to the diff under review:

git diff develop...HEAD -- '**/*.py' '**/*.ts' '**/*.tsx'

For each function in the diff, classify it:

• Public — exported, called from other modules, or reachable from an HTTP route. Contract matters most.
• Private — module-internal helper. Implementation matters more than contract.

Apply the checks below per function. Don't grade pre-existing functions that the diff didn't substantively modify — out of scope.

Patterns to look for

For each finding, name the failure mode it produces — what bug or maintenance pain it causes. Without that, leave it alone.

1. Signature & types

• Untyped parameters or return in Python or TypeScript. Especially load-bearing return types — -> dict or -> Any is rarely right.
• Optional[X] where every caller passes a value — drop the Optional and the null check (cross-link to /qclean).
• **kwargs for known parameters — memory: feedback_strong_typing. Forces callers and readers to read the body to know what's accepted.
• str where an Enum exists — same memory entry. String params let callers pass typos that fail at runtime.
• float for money — must be Decimal. Memory: feedback_decimal_not_float. This is a P0 in financial code.
• Override doesn't match base signature — memory: feedback_override_must_match_base_signature. Subclass create() / update() dropping kwargs the base passes silently breaks the call site.
• Boolean trap — 3+ boolean parameters. Callers can't read the call site (do_thing(True, False, True)). Refactor to a small dataclass / config or split the function.

2. FastAPI / endpoint specifics