AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

AntennaPod/AntennaPod

Name: AntennaPod/AntennaPod — Java Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
Creator: AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

A podcast manager for Android

0.2 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for AntennaPod/AntennaPod, a Java project with 8,257 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 139,665 lines of code across 1163 source files, recording 25 pattern matches distributed across 8 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.2 (Low pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.

Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.

0.2

Adjusted Signal

0.2

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-29

Last Push

8.3K

Stars

Java

Language

139.7K

Lines of Code

1.2K

Files

Pattern Hits

2026-10-31

Scan Date

0.00

HC Hit Rate

Risk Review · Payload v1

Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.

Payload schema: 1.0.0 · Engine: 2.0.0 · Scoring: heuristic-density-v1 · Scan date: 2026-10-31.

Cognitive Ownership Risk 0.3/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 8 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.8/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 12 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.2/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 9 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 1.3/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 25 finding(s).

What These Metrics Mean

Adjusted Signal: Legacy pattern score normalized per 1,000 scanned lines and multiplied by the repository-level time factor. It is not an estimate of AI authorship.
Raw Pattern Score: Sum of severity- and context-weighted pattern findings before applying the time factor.
Time Factor: A coarse multiplier based on repository last-push metadata. It does not identify when individual code was written.
Pattern Hits: Count of configured pattern findings. Review each location and surrounding code before acting.
HC Hit Rate: High- and critical-severity findings per scanned file. Severity is a configured detector weight, not proof of a vulnerability or authorship.
Lines / Files: Scan coverage denominators used by the legacy normalized score.

Pattern-Signal History

This chart tracks the legacy adjusted pattern score across scan runs. Changes can reflect source changes, scan coverage, or detector/scoring versions; they do not measure AI adoption or prove that a team refactored code. Compare runs only when their scoring versions are compatible. The dashed line tracks the raw pattern-hit count.

Severity Breakdown

Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.

CRITICAL 1HIGH 0MEDIUM 1LOW 23

Directory Score Breakdown

This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.

Pattern Findings

The scanner identified 25 distinct pattern matches across 8 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.

Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.

Fake / Example Data10 hits · 12 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	app/src/main/res/values/design_time_attributes.xml	12	Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus ullamcorper	CODE
LOW	app/src/main/res/values/design_time_attributes.xml	12	Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vivamus ullamcorper	CODE
LOW	…ennapod/parser/transcript/SrtTranscriptParserTest.java	26	assertEquals(result.getSegmentAtTime(0L).getSpeaker(), "John Doe");	CODE
LOW	…nnapod/parser/transcript/JsonTranscriptParserTest.java	15	+ "{ 'speaker' : 'John Doe', 'startTime': 0.8, 'endTime': 1.9, 'body': 'And' },"	CODE
LOW	…nnapod/parser/transcript/JsonTranscriptParserTest.java	25	assertEquals(result.getSegmentAtTime(800L).getSpeaker(), "John Doe");	CODE
LOW	…nnapod/parser/transcript/JsonTranscriptParserTest.java	38	assertEquals(result.getSegmentAtTime(900L).getSpeaker(), "John Doe");	CODE
LOW	…nnapod/parser/transcript/JsonTranscriptParserTest.java	57	+ "{ 'speaker' : 'John Doe', 'startTime': 0.8, 'endTime': 1.9, 'body': 'And' },"	CODE
LOW⚡	…java/de/danoeh/antennapod/model/feed/FeedItemTest.java	15	private static final String TEXT_LONG = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.";	CODE
LOW⚡	…java/de/danoeh/antennapod/model/feed/FeedItemTest.java	15	private static final String TEXT_LONG = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.";	CODE
LOW⚡	…java/de/danoeh/antennapod/model/feed/FeedItemTest.java	16	private static final String TEXT_SHORT = "Lorem ipsum";	CODE

Hallucination Indicators1 hit · 10 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
CRITICAL	.github/workflows/errorPrinter.py	44	print("::error file=" + str(filenamePath.parent.parent.parent.parent.absolute()) + "/src/main/java/" + l	CODE

AI Slop Vocabulary2 hits · 4 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	…in/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/ui/SelectableAdapter.java	221	* Can also be set to {@link #COUNT_AUTOMATICALLY} to simply use {@link #getItemCount}	COMMENT
MEDIUM	…/java/de/danoeh/antennapod/playback/cast/CastPsmp.java	211	// Essentially means stopped at the request of a user	COMMENT

Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping5 hits · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	scripts/getChangelog.py	86	except Exception:	STRING
LOW⚡	scripts/getChangelog.py	307	except Exception as error:	STRING
LOW⚡	scripts/getChangelog.py	316	except Exception as error:	STRING
LOW⚡	scripts/getChangelog.py	325	except Exception as error:	STRING
LOW	scripts/getChangelog.py	366	except Exception as error:	STRING

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers4 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	scripts/getChangelog.py	218	def comment_contains_review_link(comment_body):	STRING
LOW	scripts/getChangelog.py	225	def load_issue_review_reply_comment_urls(issue_number):	STRING
LOW	scripts/getChangelog.py	268	def collect_review_reply_details(pr_data, review_reply_comment_cache):	STRING
LOW	scripts/getChangelog.py	287	def collect_commit_author_logins(commit):	STRING

Slop Phrases1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	…eh/antennapod/ui/episodeslist/FeedItemMenuHandler.java	298	// don't forget to cancel the thing that's going to remove the media	COMMENT

Over-Commented Block1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	…danoeh/antennapod/ui/glide/FastBlurTransformation.java	61		COMMENT

Unused Imports1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	scripts/createContributors.py	2		CODE