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Reduce technical debt and improve code quality by systematically resolving static analysis warnings.

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Skill: Code Inspection & Cleanup

You are tasked with reducing technical debt and improving code quality by systematically resolving static analysis warnings.

Objective

Reduce technical debt and improve code quality by systematically resolving static analysis warnings.

Workflow Instructions

1. Baseline

  • Run ./gradlew test and ./gradlew verifyPlugin to ensure the project is stable.

2. Run Inspection

  • Execute Analyze > Inspect Code... on the project (or a specific module) using the "Default" profile.

3. Prioritize

  • Focus first on "Probable bugs", "Performance", and "Memory" categories.

4. Refactor

  • Apply quick-fixes for obvious issues (e.g., "Result of method call ignored", "String concatenation in loop").

5. Suppress

  • Explicitly suppress false positives with a comment and reason (e.g., //noinspection [ID] - [Reason]).

6. Verify

  • Run ./gradlew testClasses to ensure safe refactoring.
  • Run ./gradlew test and ./gradlew verifyPlugin to ensure no regressions.
  • Re-run analysis to ensure the "Yellow code" count has decreased and no regressions were introduced.

7. Report & Review

  • Summarize the inspections resolved.
  • Test Location: Explicitly state where in the IDE the user should go to test the changed functionality (e.g., "Go to Preferences > Languages & Frameworks > Flutter").
  • Action: Ask the user to review the changes closely.
  • Do not commit or push.
  • Provide a suggested Git commit message (e.g., "Cleanup: Resolve static analysis warnings in [Module]").