Engineering IQ

Analyze the open workspace for architecture, security, performance, dependencies, technical debt, and upgrade risk — locally, without uploading source.

What it does

Detects React Native, React, Node, Python, Flutter, Android, iOS, Java, Ruby, PHP, .NET, and related stacks
Scores Engineering Health from those analyzers
Lists findings in the Engineering IQ view (Activity Bar and Explorer)
Opens the file at the reported line
Publishes diagnostics in the Problems panel (source: Engineering IQ)
Optional AI: explain a finding or summarize a category

Source stays on your machine. Registry lookups (npm, PyPI, and similar) only fetch package metadata when engineeringIq.enableNetworkAnalyzers is on.

Getting started

Open a project folder
Command Palette → Engineering IQ: Analyze Workspace
Review the tree, status bar (IQ), and Problems panel
Click a finding to jump to the line

If the folder has more than one app, you will be asked which project to analyze.

Optional AI

Analysis does not require AI. To explain a finding or summarize a category:

Command Palette → Engineering IQ: Set AI Endpoint
Enter https://engineeringiq.dev/api/ai

Only finding titles, severities, rule ids, and short descriptions are sent — not your source tree. Leave the setting empty if you do not want AI.

Settings

Setting	Default	Meaning
`engineeringIq.enableNetworkAnalyzers`	`true`	Fetch package-registry metadata for dependency health and upgrades
`engineeringIq.aiEndpoint`	(empty)	Use `https://engineeringiq.dev/api/ai`. Empty skips AI
`engineeringIq.exclude`	`[]`	Extra glob patterns to skip when reading the workspace

Privacy

Analyzers run in the extension host against the open folder
node_modules, vendor, .git, build output, and similar paths are skipped
Optional AI is off until you set an endpoint

Feedback

kiran@engineeringiq.dev