Prelint

What is Prelint?

Prelint is a review tool built for teams whose AI coding agents ship pull requests faster than humans can verify intent behind them. Rather than checking whether code compiles or follows secure patterns like a traditional code review tool, Prelint ingests a company's product specs, decision logs, tickets, and even call transcripts to build a knowledge base of what the product is actually supposed to do. It then evaluates every incoming pull request against that context, flagging contradictions, silent business-logic changes, compliance gaps, unauthorized tooling choices, and off-roadmap scope creep — all before a human reviewer even opens the diff.

Key Features

• Spec-Grounded PR Review

  Automatically checks every pull request against version-controlled product specs written in Markdown or YAML, flagging drift the moment it appears.

• Business Logic Guardrails

  Catches silent changes to pricing, billing, or revenue-critical rules that an AI agent might introduce without understanding downstream financial impact.

• Compliance and Data Handling Checks

  Flags data storage or retention choices that violate policies the agent was never explicitly told about, reducing regulatory exposure from GDPR or CCPA gaps.

• Tooling and Vendor Consistency

  Detects when new dependencies or SaaS vendors conflict with a team's existing infrastructure standards before duplication creeps in.

• Conversational Spec Q&A

  Lets engineers and non-engineers ask why a feature works a certain way and get answers grounded directly in the underlying specs, without pinging a teammate.

• Tenant-Isolated Security

  Runs each organization on isolated infrastructure with no cross-tenant data sharing and no training on customer code.

Use Cases

• Reviewing AI Agent Output : Teams running autonomous coding agents use Prelint as an automatic gate that stops off-spec or off-roadmap PRs from merging unchecked.
• Preventing Revenue Leakage : Finance-sensitive teams catch silent pricing, currency, or billing logic changes that would otherwise slip past standard code review.
• Compliance Risk Reduction : Engineering leads use Prelint to catch data retention or consent-flow violations introduced unintentionally by fast-moving agents.
• Cross-Team Alignment : Product managers and stakeholders query specs directly to understand past decisions instead of interrupting engineers for context.
• Vendor and Infrastructure Governance : Platform teams prevent tool sprawl by catching when a new PR introduces a vendor that duplicates existing infrastructure investments.

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