cdd-utils 0.1.1

General utilities for AI-assisted development

CDD Utils

General utilities for AI-assisted development.

Part of the Contract-Driven Development ecosystem.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                                                                 │
│   cdd-flow         Orchestration layer                         │
│                    ctx, land, undo, checkpoint                  │
│      │                                                          │
│      ├───────────► cdd-context     Context generation           │
│      │                             PROJECT_CONTEXT.md           │
│      │                                                          │
│      └───────────► cdd-tooling     Verification                 │
│                    analyze, lint, test, compare                 │
│                                                                 │
│   cdd-utils        General utilities        ◄── YOU ARE HERE    │
│                    utf8 (encoding hygiene)                      │
│                                                                 │
│   cdd              Methodology (spec only)                      │
│                    SPEC.md, README.md                           │
│                                                                 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Installation

pip install cdd-utils

# Or with pipx (recommended for CLI use)
pipx install cdd-utils

# From source (editable)
git clone https://github.com/thegdyne/cdd-utils.git
cd cdd-utils
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Commands

Command	Description
cdd-utils utf8	UTF-8 corruption detection and ASCII normalization

utf8 - Encoding Hygiene

AI-generated code often contains encoding issues: smart quotes, corrupted UTF-8 sequences, invisible characters. The utf8 command detects and fixes these.

Modes

Mode	Flag	Description
Report	--report	Scan and list all non-ASCII characters
Preview	--dry-run	Show what would be fixed
Smart Preview	--dry-run --smart	Categorize as legitimate vs suspicious
Fix All	--fix	Normalize ALL non-ASCII to ASCII
Smart Fix	--smart-fix	Fix only suspicious (clustered) characters

Smart Mode

Smart mode distinguishes between:

• Legitimate: Isolated non-ASCII surrounded by ASCII (intentional symbols like •, ↻, →)
• Suspicious: Clustered non-ASCII adjacent to each other (likely corruption like â†')

Examples

# Scan a directory for non-ASCII
cdd-utils utf8 --report src/

# Preview fixes for a file
cdd-utils utf8 --dry-run src/main.py

# See legitimate vs suspicious breakdown
cdd-utils utf8 --dry-run --smart src/main.py

# Fix only corrupted sequences, keep intentional Unicode
cdd-utils utf8 --smart-fix src/main.py

# Fix everything (normalize all to ASCII)
cdd-utils utf8 --fix src/main.py

# Filter by extension
cdd-utils utf8 --report src/ --ext .py .scd

What It Detects

• Invalid/corrupted UTF-8 byte sequences
• Smart quotes and curly apostrophes (" " ' ')
• Em/en dashes and fancy hyphens (— –)
• Non-breaking spaces and zero-width characters
• Unicode arrows, bullets, symbols
• Replacement characters (corruption indicator)

Backups

Both --fix and --smart-fix create timestamped backups before modifying files:

_utf8_backups_20250101_120000/
├── src/
│   └── main.py

Suggested Alias

alias cu='cdd-utils'
# Usage: cu utf8 --report src/

Development

git clone https://github.com/thegdyne/cdd-utils.git
cd cdd-utils
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

License

MIT