[Croaky]

You can tune Hound (and Rubocop) to your liking:

https://houndci.com/configuration

> the change is a false positive

I've been using Hound on about a dozen projects the last few months and haven't seen false positives. We built it atop Rubocop, which has been pretty well-vetted.

> Software development has too many unwritten rules and social interactions for a bot

We've limited our guidelines to a subset that should almost always be "no argument, my bad, fixed in [SHA hash]." However, it comments instead of failing the build or mechanically changing the code because that the human should make the final decision about whether to make the change.