Splitting the god files made a pile of copy-paste helpers visible and,
for the first time, fixable — sharing them previously meant importing a
god file. Hashing function bodies through the TypeScript AST found
twelve groups desktop-wide; production code is now at zero duplicates.
Each helper went to the module that already owns its concern:
firstStringField to lib/text, the two REST 404 predicates to
lib/gateway-rpc beside isMissingRpcMethod, useDebounced and
prefersReducedMotion to their hooks, the superseded-bootstrap guard to
electron/ssh-connection, the composer keyup handler to the trigger hook
that owns the rest of that state machine, and clampDataUrlReadMaxMb to
apps/shared, replacing a "keep these in sync" comment between two
copies.
Only helpers with no existing owner got a new file: lib/mcp-servers,
lib/audio-context, lib/keyed-timeouts, lib/pointer-drag, and the command
palette's status row. Error-shape predicates are the worst thing to
copy — when the backend changes how it reports a missing route, every
copy has to be found.
Brooklyn Nicholson