Overllm – flags where you're paying an LLM to do a regex's job

overllm Catch the LLM/AI calls you didn't need. overllm is a small, fast linter with one job: find the places in your code where you call an AI model to do something plain code does better. You called GPT to parse a date. You called a model to extract JSON that json.loads already handles. You are paying latency, money, and nondeterminism for a regex. It reads your code with a real parser: Python through the standard-library ast, and JavaScript and TypeScript through tree-sitter. No model runs, no network, no API key. Same code in, same result out. Fast enough for a pre-commit hook. Everyone else lints the code the AI wrote. overllm catches where you are paying an AI to do what a library already does.

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