Style Baselines

One of the most challenging aspects of humanizing code is that “human style” varies wildly between individuals and teams. A “night-owl” profile might be perfect for one developer, but look suspicious for another.

The Learning Mode

To solve this, papertowel includes a Learn Mode. Instead of relying on a pre-defined persona, Learn Mode allows the tool to analyze your actual existing git history to create a custom style baseline.

How it Works

When you run papertowel learn repo <path>, the tool performs a deep analysis of your recent commits:

1. Temporal Analysis: It maps out your actual active hours, productivity peaks, and session gaps.
2. Lexical Analysis: It identifies the words and phrases you actually use in your commit messages.
3. Entropy Analysis: It calculates your natural typo rate and your frequency of “wip” or “fix” commits.

Creating a Baseline

The resulting analysis is stored as a Style Baseline. This baseline acts as a highly accurate Persona Profile that mirrors your own coding habits.

When you then run wring drip, the Wringer uses this baseline instead of a generic profile, ensuring that the “humanized” history is a perfect stylistic match for your actual development pattern.

Using the Baseline

Once a baseline is generated, apply it when dripping commits:

papertowel wring drip --profile <your-baseline-name>

To inspect the stored baseline without re-running the analysis:

papertowel learn show .

By learning from your own history, papertowel moves from “simulating a human” to “simulating you.”