annotations/missing-hints
readOnlyHint/destructiveHint are machine-readable: clients use them to decide when to ask the user for confirmation. Prose like 'confirm with the user first' is invisible to that machinery.
- Category
- annotations
- Default severity
- warn
- Weight
- 3
- Max deduction
- 12
Why this category matters
Whether clients can tell a read from a write before they run it.
A rule deducts weight points from its category for each non-info finding, capped at maxDeduction. The composite is the mean of the six category scores — so a single noisy rule can never sink a whole surface on its own. Read the full scoring model.