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nudgement

Jev answers a fixed set of judgment questions on each commit message, code comment or doc line, then thresholds a nudge severity score.

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The source publishes no measured number.
Use
Code and security review
Industry
Developer tools
Form
Open-source tool
Stage
Beta
Listed
2026-09-29
Found via
discord
Repository
Nicholas-Westby/nudgement
Stars
2
Forks
0
Last push
2026-09-30
Language
TypeScript
License
MIT
nudgement screenshot
docs/images/nudgement-example.webp in the Nicholas-Westby/nudgement README, MIT; shown from GitHub.

The README opens with

Explore nudgement.dev for an interactive introduction and real examples.

nudgement reviews commit messages, code, comments, tests, READMEs and UI copy. It combines exact checks with focused questions to TypeSafe's Jev model. Use it before committing to catch things a formatter cannot: a message that misrepresents the diff, a comment that contradicts the code, or a test that would pass even if the behavior broke.

For example, flag overly generic commit messages so they can be made more useful:

Badge

For the project's own README, linking back here:

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