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Choices-js/Choices

SlopCodeMonitor badge for Choices-js/Choices Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

A vanilla JS customisable select box/text input plugin ⚡️

0.7 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for Choices-js/Choices, a JavaScript project with 6,826 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 55,527 lines of code across 190 source files, recording 36 pattern matches distributed across 3 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.7 (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.

0.7
Adjusted Signal
0.7
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-30
Last Push
6.8K
Stars
JavaScript
Language
55.5K
Lines of Code
190
Files
36
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 0.4/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 4 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 3.0/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 32 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.1/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 1 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.2/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 36 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 0HIGH 0MEDIUM 0LOW 36

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 36 distinct pattern matches across 3 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 Data32 hits · 34 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtest/scripts/templates.test.ts272 describe('placeholder', () => {CODE
LOWtest/scripts/templates.test.ts509 describe('placeholder', () => {CODE
LOWtest/scripts/components/wrapped-select.test.ts30 option.setAttribute('placeholder', '');CODE
LOWpublic/test/text/index.html295 <div data-test-hook="placeholder">CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-prefix.min.js2!function(e,t){"object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typeof module?module.exports=t():"function"==typeof define&&defineCODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-basic.min.js2!function(e,t){"object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typeof module?module.exports=t():"function"==typeof define&&defineCODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-kmp.min.js2!function(e,t){"object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typeof module?module.exports=t():"function"==typeof define&&defineCODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-kmp.js505 Object.defineProperty(Input.prototype, "placeholder", {CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-kmp.js915 if (!option.hasAttribute('value') && option.hasAttribute('placeholder')) {CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-kmp.js934 placeholder: this.extractPlaceholder && (!option.value || option.hasAttribute('placeholder')),CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.js514 Object.defineProperty(Input.prototype, "placeholder", {CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.js924 if (!option.hasAttribute('value') && option.hasAttribute('placeholder')) {CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.js943 placeholder: this.extractPlaceholder && (!option.value || option.hasAttribute('placeholder')),CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.min.js2!function(e,t){"object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typeof module?module.exports=t():"function"==typeof define&&defineCODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-prefix.js505 Object.defineProperty(Input.prototype, "placeholder", {CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-prefix.js915 if (!option.hasAttribute('value') && option.hasAttribute('placeholder')) {CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-prefix.js934 placeholder: this.extractPlaceholder && (!option.value || option.hasAttribute('placeholder')),CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-basic.js514 Object.defineProperty(Input.prototype, "placeholder", {CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-basic.js924 if (!option.hasAttribute('value') && option.hasAttribute('placeholder')) {CODE
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-basic.js943 placeholder: this.extractPlaceholder && (!option.value || option.hasAttribute('placeholder')),CODE
LOW⚡test-e2e/tests/text.spec.ts280 describe('placeholder', () => {CODE
LOW⚡test-e2e/tests/text.spec.ts281 const testId = 'placeholder';CODE
LOW⚡test-e2e/tests/text.spec.ts288 await expect(suite.input).toHaveAttribute('placeholder', 'I am a placeholder');CODE
LOWtest-e2e/tests/select-multiple.spec.ts752 await expect(suite.input).toHaveAttribute('placeholder', 'I am a placeholder');CODE
LOWtest-e2e/tests/select-multiple.spec.ts767 await expect(suite.input).toHaveAttribute('placeholder', 'I am a placeholder');CODE
LOWtest-e2e/tests/select-multiple.spec.ts779 await expect(suite.input).toHaveAttribute('placeholder', 'I am a placeholder');CODE
LOWtest-e2e/tests/select-multiple.spec.ts795 await expect(suite.input).toHaveAttribute('placeholder', 'Loading...');CODE
LOWtest-e2e/tests/select-multiple.spec.ts801 await expect(suite.input).toHaveAttribute('placeholder', 'I am a placeholder');CODE
LOWtest-e2e/tests/select-multiple.spec.ts1191 describe('placeholder', () => {CODE
LOWtest-e2e/tests/select-one.spec.ts1085 describe('placeholder', () => {CODE
LOWsrc/scripts/components/wrapped-select.ts73 if (!option.hasAttribute('value') && option.hasAttribute('placeholder')) {CODE
LOWsrc/scripts/components/wrapped-select.ts93 placeholder: this.extractPlaceholder && (!option.value || option.hasAttribute('placeholder')),CODE
Over-Commented Block3 hits · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWplaywright.config.ts61 use: { ...devices['Desktop Safari'] },COMMENT
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.js1641 // At what point does the match algorithm give up. A threshold of '0.0' requires a perfect matchCOMMENT
LOWpublic/assets/scripts/choices.search-basic.js1641 // Approximately where in the text is the pattern expected to be found?COMMENT
Hyper-Verbose Identifiers1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtest/scripts/templates.test.ts23function createOptionsWithPartialClasses(classNames: Partial<ClassNames>, options: Partial<Options> = {}): Options {CODE