boolean-parameters SKILL.md skillA
boolean-parameters from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/code-quality/boolean-parameters/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260718.7c1285c, committed Jul 18, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Replace opaque boolean flags with named enums or split functions so call sites read without the definition open. Use when a signature takes a bare boolean or a function branches on a mode flag.
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What the file says
# Boolean parameters
A boolean argument reads fine at the definition and lies at the call site:
`render(true, false)` tells the reader nothing about what is on and what is
off. Worse, a flag usually means the function does two different jobs bolted
together behind an `if`, and splitting them would be clearer than switching
between them.
## Method
1. **Read your call sites, not your signatures.** Find the bare
`true`/`false` arguments: `createUser(data, true)`, `connect(host,
false, true)`. If a reader must open the definition to learn what the
boolean means, it is the wrong parameter. Grep for `, true)` and
`, false)` to surface them.
2. **Replace a mode flag with an enum.** `setAlignment(true)` becomes
`setAlignment(Alignment.Left)`; a two-value flag becomes a named type
with two cases. The call site now states what it does, and a third mode
later extends the enum instead of adding a second boolean.
3. **Split a function that branches on the flag.** If `save(data, isDraft)`
is `if (isDraft) {...} else {...}` with two nearly separate bodies, make
`saveDraft(data)` and `publish(data)`. Two honest names beat one
function with a hidden fork inside it.
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How to install
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 18, 2026.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
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