unnecessary-guard-conditions

name	unnecessary-guard-conditions
description	Flag extra checks that are logically unreachable at the call site — they add noise and can mask future regressions.
license	Apache-2.0
metadata	{"copyright":"The Kubernetes Authors"}

Skill: Unnecessary Guard Conditions

Unnecessary guard conditions — extra checks that are logically unreachable at the call site. They are a mild correctness concern: they add noise, suggest the author was uncertain about an invariant, and can mask a future regression that breaks the invariant they were silently relying on.