# Comment Prefixes Comments have prefixes using [Conventional: Comments](https://conventionalcomments.org/) as a **loose** guideline, and using this markdown file as a the actual guideline. This document will be updated on an _as-needed_ basis. ## The rules - A comment line always looks like this: - A whitespace character - Optional prefix matching `/[a-z-]+\([a-z-]a+\):/` - A whitespace character - The comment - Formalized prefixes must follow the rules below - Any other prefix can be used. After some uses it might be good to formalize it, but that's not a hard rule. ## Formalized prefixes - `todo:` is interchangable with the famous `TODO:`, **except:** when lowercase (`todo:`) it can include a scope: `todo(security):`. - `track:` is used to track common patterns. - Anything written after `track:` must be registered in [track-comments.md](../devmeta/track-comments.md) - `wet:` is usesd to track anything that doesn't adhere to the DRY principle; the following message should describe where similar code is