.NET Complexity Review

Trigger On

• the team wants to find overly complex methods
• cyclomatic complexity thresholds are needed in CI
• maintainability metrics or coupling thresholds need to be configured

Workflow

1. Start with the built-in maintainability analyzers before reaching for non-standard tooling.
2. Use these rules deliberately:

- CA1502 for excessive cyclomatic complexity in methods - CA1505 for low maintainability index - CA1506 for excessive class coupling - CA1501 when inheritance depth is also part of the design problem

1. Keep rule severity in the root .editorconfig.
2. Keep metric thresholds in a checked-in CodeMetricsConfig.txt added as AdditionalFiles.
3. Pair analyzer findings with MCAF maintainability limits in AGENTS.md.

Deliver

• explicit complexity and maintainability policy
• checked-in metric thresholds
• CI commands that surface complex methods early

Validate

• method-complexity checks are enabled where the repo wants them
• thresholds are versioned in repo, not held in IDE memory
• complexity findings map to real refactoring decisions

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