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• Style Consistency Rules: 10 production-ready lint rules
  • Safety rules: avoid-dynamic, avoid-global-state, avoid-late-keyword, no-empty-block, no-equal-then-else
  • Quality rules: prefer-first-last, prefer-async-await, avoid-unnecessary-cast, prefer-trailing-comma, binary-expression-order
• Rule Infrastructure
  • StyleRule abstract base class for custom rules
  • RuleRunner for coordinated rule execution
  • RuleRegistry for rule registration and configuration
  • RuleConfig for YAML-based configuration parsing
  • AnalysisResult and AnalysisResultBuilder for multi-file results
• Rule Configuration
  • Per-rule severity override
  • Per-rule file exclusion patterns
  • Global exclusion patterns
• CLI Command: anteater rules --path <path> for running style rules
• Performance Optimizations
  • RegExp pattern caching for glob matching
  • Lazy computed properties in AnalysisResult
  • Unmodifiable collections in RuleSettings
  • Const empty list returns

Changed #

• Improved error handling: rule execution failures reported as warnings instead of silent failures

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• High-level API: Anteater facade class with one-liner static methods
  • Anteater.analyzeMetrics() for metrics analysis with automatic cleanup
  • Anteater.analyze() for project diagnostics with automatic cleanup
  • Anteater.analyzeFile() for single file analysis
• Documentation: Comprehensive dartdoc for Anteater, SourceLoader, MetricsThresholds
• Exit Codes: Documented in CLI help message
• Library Usage: Added usage examples to README.md
• Quiet Mode: --quiet / -q flag to suppress progress output for CI pipelines
• Version Constant: Centralized version string in lib/version.dart
• Single File Support: SourceLoader now accepts single file paths

Changed #

• Exit code for command line usage errors changed from 1 to 64 (EX_USAGE)
• Improved barrel export with explicit show clauses for key types

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• Core Analysis Pipeline

  • SSA-based data flow analysis using Braun et al. algorithm
  • Control Flow Graph (CFG) construction from Dart AST
  • Datalog-based relational reasoning engine

• Metrics Calculation

  • Cyclomatic complexity
  • Cognitive complexity
  • Halstead metrics (volume, difficulty, effort)
  • Maintainability index

• CLI Interface

  • `anteater analyze` command with text, JSON, and HTML output
  • `anteater metrics` command with threshold configuration
  • `anteater server` for LSP mode
  • `--watch` mode for continuous analysis
  • `--no-fatal-infos` and `--no-fatal-warnings` flags

• Configuration

  • `analysis_options.yaml` support for threshold configuration
  • CLI options override YAML configuration

• Reasoner

  • Points-to analysis
  • Taint tracking infrastructure
  • Abstract interpretation with interval domain
  • Bounds checking for array access

Changed #

• Nothing yet (initial release)

Deprecated #

• Nothing yet (initial release)

Removed #

• Nothing yet (initial release)

Fixed #

• Nothing yet (initial release)

Security #

• Nothing yet (initial release)