Mesa enforced rules may well be ignored, is this true?
Mesa is yet another exercise in passing the responsibility to a magical system.
Tests and human review vs. Mesa: battle grounds.
We designed our integration with Claude code to reject edits before it's written if it violates a rule via an exit 2 code. Also don't think any system will be 100% on rule enforcement, senior reviewers included. We can't be perfect but we can raise the floor.
Actually our approach is the opposite. Writing rules forces teams to articulate what their standards are. Mesa makes you write them down, version control them, and review them as code, similar to a linter. This specificity is why this system works much better than a standard AI code reviewer that checks for general issues.
We aren't trying to replace tests or humans. The goal is to make them more effective by filtering out the noise before it reaches them.