# Utility Dump

> A defect in which unrelated helpers accumulate in a generic utility module that no one owns.

Record: `architecture:utility-dump`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Enforcement Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/enforcement-core.md)
Severity: discouraged
Scope: modularity, domain_boundary
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology#architecture-utility-dump

Listed in [Architecture principles](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/architecture.md), after [Repository Dump](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/repository-dump.md) and before [Framework Leakage](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/framework-leakage.md).

## Repair

- Refactored by: move_helper_to_owner, split_by_domain, extract_value_object, name_concept
- Detected by: utils_file_growth, unrelated_helpers, many_modules_import_same_dump, generic_names
- Violated by: Accumulate unrelated helper functions in generic utility modules without ownership, cohesion, or domain language.
- Measured by: unrelated functions per utility module, importers per utility module
- Enforced by: naming rules that reject catch-all module names, cohesion analysis

## Severity

- [discouraged](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/severity-discouraged.md)

## Category

- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture-category/anti-patterns.md)

## Force

- [Domain boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/domain-boundary.md)
- [Modularity](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/modularity.md)

## Negated by

- [High Cohesion](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/high-cohesion.md)

## Linked from

- [Never and always](https://banes-lab.com/software-architecture/decay/never-and-always.md)
- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-anti-patterns.md)
- [Core Modular Design](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-core-modular-design.md)
- [Severity levels](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-severity.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)