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Hecate

Architecture checker for hexagonal Python projects. Walks package roots with `ast`, classifies imports, and reports boundary violations.

Local validation

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Introduction
- Introduction
Running checks
- Running checks
Reading diagnostics
- Reading diagnostics
Re-export handling
- Re-export handling
Local validation
- Local validation

Re-export handling

Updated May 19, 2026

Package barrels do not hide forbidden imports. Hecate indexes __init__.py exports, honours the last literal __all__ assignment, falls back to public symbols when __all__ is absent or unresolved, and expands statically resolvable star exports.