Overscope - audit what your AI coding agent changed vs. what you actually asked for

Description and use

Overscope audits AI-generated code changes, flags scope violations, and provides a safe revert command, ensuring commits match the developer’s intent.

Problem

AI coding agents often deviate from user instructions, adding unintended changes, dependencies, or deleting files, making it hard to trust their output.

Outcome

Overscope provides a quick, offline audit of AI-generated code changes, preventing unintended modifications and ensuring that commits reflect the developer’s original intent.

Workflow

• 1. Install Overscope via uv: uv tool install git+https://github.com/sandeepwastaken/overscope. 2. Run overscope inside the target repository. 3. Overscope analyzes the diff and the user’s request using regex-based heuristics. 4. It compares requested changes with actual changes, identifying scope violations. 5. The tool outputs a report and copies a safe revert command to the clipboard. 6. The developer reviews the report, applies the revert if necessary, and commits only the intended changes.

Evidence

It uses a regex-based system with signals from your request (verbs, explicit paths, keywords, “don’t touch X”) and from the diff (paths, files, etc.), then comparing the two with some keyword matching and some rules.

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