ast-grep
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Jan 11, 2026first mention
Oct 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“oxlint and some general ast-grep rules have pretty much been an absolute necessity for any of my LLM based code generation.”
“we use https://ast-grep.github.io (on a pre-commit hook) for such cases, which bridges the linter gaps nicely”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
Data: ast-grep.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“oxlint and some general ast-grep rules have pretty much been an absolute necessity for any of my LLM based code generation.”
“A step up from that is ast-grep and I need to explore this tool more”
“I have tried using ast-grep for structured code parsing understanding”
“we use https://ast-grep.github.io (on a pre-commit hook) for such cases, which bridges the linter gaps nicely”
“for the moment it calls ast-grep under the hood”