Question 1

What is Gallant, and what kind of linter is it?

Accepted Answer

A customizable linter built to use Decision Models — Jev, Clef and other system-one models — to lint code, documents and other text-based files. It targets fuzzy rules that are hard to express in traditional deterministic systems, such as whether a file's comments repeat what the code already says.

Question 2

Why use a decision model instead of an LLM for fuzzy lint rules?

Accepted Answer

The README argues decision models are fast and cheaper, and can work on fuzzy rules traditional software has not handled, while Gallant itself is a single Go binary with no runtime requirements and minimal dependencies. The author's rejection of other tools as needing runtimes, servers or many dependencies is his own opinion.

Question 3

How do I install Gallant?

Accepted Answer

Releases are on the repository's Releases page, or build from source with Go: go install github.com/madxmike/gallant/cmd/gallant@latest. A specific release can be pinned, as in go install github.com/madxmike/gallant/cmd/gallant@v0.1.0.

Question 4

How do I write and run rules?

Accepted Answer

By default Gallant looks for rules in the relative .agents/gallant folder; then gallant . applies them to all files under the relative path. gallant --help rules covers writing rules, and gallant --help providers lists the available decision-model providers.

Question 5

What are Gallant's limitations?

Accepted Answer

The README warns decision models have relatively small input context windows — orders of a couple hundred to a couple thousand tokens — so expect rejections if the file you are linting is too large. Some hosted models have larger contexts. Gallant does not chunk files itself; you can chunk them or pass arbitrary input from stdin.

Question 6

Does Gallant send telemetry?

Accepted Answer

No. The README says Gallant does not emit telemetry, log, or attempt to obtain any additional information than what you provide as input. Your input still goes to whichever hosted decision-model provider you configure, since Gallant interfaces with hosted providers.

Question 7

Which providers does Gallant support?

Accepted Answer

The README names Jev and Clef as examples of Decision Models and points to gallant --help providers for the available list. It says Gallant is not intended to encompass every possible provider, and large, widely used or popular local servers will be considered, so the list can grow.

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