I built Nikui because standard linters catch typos but miss architectural rot. It is a forensics tool inspired by Adam Tornhill's "Code as a Crime Scene."
The core idea is the Hotspot Score: Stench (LLM-detected debt) x Churn (Git commit frequency). A messy file that changes daily is a priority; a messy file untouched for years is ignored.
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