Automattic / Automattic/harper

False positive: "how" wrongly flagged to require following "to"

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Description

**What got flagged?**

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> since this is how fully-connected neural networks are modeled.

**Why is this incorrect?**

This sentence is about "how x works". I'm not sure what the heuristic might be doing... Just checking for a following adverb in the expectation that the word after that would be a verb in the infinitive perhaps?

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the quoted sentence in Harper and identify the heuristic that flags “how” as requiring “to”; the issue does not name a file or test. Done means this sentence is no longer flagged while the intended “how … to” detection continues to work, with a regression test for the reported wording.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
devtools
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
50/100

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