vett 0.2.0

AI-powered codebase health scanner

🩺 Vett — AI-Powered Codebase Health Scanner

Fast codebase health checks with optional AI analysis. Local-first, open source, and developer-friendly.

✨ Features

• 🔐 Security pattern detection (secrets, risky APIs)
• 📏 Complexity and maintainability checks
• 📝 TODO/FIXME/HACK discovery
• 🤖 Optional AI project analysis (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter)
• 📄 Markdown report output (vett_report.md)

📦 Install

pip install -U vett

If you are developing locally:

pip install -e .

🚀 Quick Start

# Scan current project (interactive mode if no API key is set)
vett scan .

# Scan without AI
vett scan . --no-ai

# Scan a specific folder
vett scan ./my-project

📋 Quick Copy Commands

# Check latest live version on PyPI
python -c "import json,urllib.request;print(json.load(urllib.request.urlopen('https://pypi.org/pypi/vett/json'))['info']['version'])"

# Install/upgrade to latest
python -m pip install -U vett

# Verify installed CLI version
vett version

# Scan without AI
vett scan . --no-ai

# Scan with Anthropic + explicit model
vett scan . --provider anthropic --model claude-3-5-sonnet-latest

API key setup (optional):

# Anthropic
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-key-here        # Mac/Linux
set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your-key-here           # Windows CMD
$env:ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-key-here"        # PowerShell

# OpenAI
export OPENAI_API_KEY=your-key-here

# Gemini
export GEMINI_API_KEY=your-key-here

# OpenRouter (great for free/open models)
export OPENROUTER_API_KEY=your-key-here

Pick provider with:

vett scan . --provider anthropic
vett scan . --provider openai
vett scan . --provider gemini
vett scan . --provider openrouter

🧭 CLI Reference

vett --help
vett scan --help
vett scan . --provider openrouter
vett scan . --provider openai --model gpt-4o-mini
vett version
vett version --short

📊 What Vett Checks

Check	Description
🔐 Security	Hardcoded secrets, unsafe eval/exec, SQL injection patterns
📏 Complexity	Functions longer than 50 lines
📦 Large files	Files over 300 lines
📝 TODOs	Unresolved TODO/FIXME/HACK comments
🤖 AI Analysis	Project summary, grade, strengths, suggestions

📁 Output

• Colorful terminal report
• vett_report.md saved in your target folder

🛠️ Troubleshooting

• vett: command not found -> reinstall with pip install -U vett and restart terminal
• UnicodeEncodeError on Windows -> set PYTHONUTF8=1 before running
• No source files found -> verify the target has code files (.py, .js, .ts, ...)

🤝 Open Source

• License: MIT (LICENSE)
• Contributing guide: CONTRIBUTING.md
• Security policy: SECURITY.md
• Changelog: CHANGELOG.md

🧪 For Contributors

pip install -e .
vett scan . --no-ai

📤 Release Process (PyPI)

1. Update vett/__init__.py version.
2. Update CHANGELOG.md.
3. Push to main.
4. Create a GitHub release or version tag.
5. Workflow .github/workflows/publish-pypi.yml publishes to PyPI.