Comprehension Lens

Over 70% of engineer time goes to understanding code, documentation, and business context.

Comprehension Lens provides tools that reduce comprehension time, bugs, and friction, saving you time for the good parts.

• Why
• Cognitive Error Causes
• Cognitive Error Dashboard
• Extension Settings
• ChangeLog

Why

Why summarizes the business rationale behind selected text. It reduces friction from looking up information in other channels and asking SMEs (Subject Matter Experts). It bases its information on related PRs, commits, issues, and code. Currently it is limited to Github context. Drop a line in our Support Chat if you need additional contexts.

Example from the Backstage github repo.

Cognitive Error Causes

Reveals the cognitive errors causes in your code, helping you prevent bugs and reduce code review time. Leverages static analysis and world class research.

Cognitive Error Dashboard

Discover which error causes are worth fixing, and which aren't.

Extension Settings

ChangeLog

0.0.12

• Adds "Why" hover and pane
• Removes code related to eventual paid features
• Adds Settings to show/hide new and/or preexisting cognitive errors

0.0.13

Updated README

0.0.14

Updated Changelog.

0.0.15

Fix indefinite "why" loading when outside git repo