AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

ClementTsang/bottom

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

Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

1.9 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for ClementTsang/bottom, a Rust project with 14,142 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 63,286 lines of code across 324 source files, recording 120 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.9 (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.

1.9
Adjusted Signal
1.9
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-31
Last Push
14.1K
Stars
Rust
Language
63.3K
Lines of Code
324
Files
120
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 9.1/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 119 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.0/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.1/100 · LOW

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

PR Review Velocity Impact 9.6/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 120 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 1MEDIUM 1LOW 118

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 120 distinct pattern matches across 5 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.

Over-Commented Block115 hits · 110 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtests/valid_configs/all_styling.toml1# These are all the components that support custom theming. Note that colour supportCOMMENT
LOWtests/valid_configs/all_styling_color.toml1# Styling but we use "color" everywhere.COMMENT
LOWtests/integration/layout_movement_tests.rs1// TODO: Test basic modeCOMMENT
LOW.github/workflows/build_releases.yml1# Builds the following releases:COMMENT
LOW.github/workflows/ci.yml121 command: clippyCOMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml1# This is a default config file for bottom. All of the settings are commentedCOMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml21#rate = "1s"COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml41# Whether to make process searching case sensitive by default.COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml61#default_time_value = "60s"COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml81COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml101#tree = falseCOMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml121# Deprecated - use network_graph.use_log.COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml141#enable_cache_memory = falseCOMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml161# PID, Name, CPU%, Mem%, Swap, R/s, W/s, T.Read, T.Write, User, State, Time, GMem%, GPU%, Nice, PriorityCOMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml181# Shows the full command name instead of the process name by default.COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml201COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml221COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml241COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml261#[disk.mount_filter]COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml281#show_read = trueCOMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml301#is_list_ignored = trueCOMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml321# Defaults to "Sensor".COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml341COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml361#list = ["cpu", "wifi"]COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml381# Subtract ARC memory that can be freed from memory usage. Only available if the ZFS feature is enabled when built.COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml401# A list of filters to try and match.COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml421# - "nord"COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml441#cache_colour = "light red"COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml461#graph_colour = "gray"COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml481# [[row.child.child]] represents a widget.COMMENT
LOWsample_configs/default_config.toml501#[[row]]COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs261COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs281# Whether to set CPU% on a process to be based on the total CPU or per-core CPU% (not divided by the number of cpus).COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs301# The temperature unit. One of the following, defaults to "c" for Celsius:COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs321COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs341# Disable keyboard shortcutsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs361COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs381# Deprecated - use processes.hide_k_threads.COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs401#memory_legend = "top-right"COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs421# Gather process child thread informationCOMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs441COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs461#[cpu]COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs481# Defaults to "Disk".COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs501#regex = trueCOMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs521#case_sensitive = falseCOMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs541# Where to place the legend. One of "none", "top-left", "top", "top-right", "left", "right", "bottom-left", "bottom", "bCOMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs561# Whether to require matching the whole word. Defaults to false.COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs581COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs601# there is no limit. Is in the configured temperature unit.COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs621# Memory widget configurationCOMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs641COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs661COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs681#all_entry_colour = "green"COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs701#[styles.battery]COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs721#bg_colour = "black"COMMENT
LOWsrc/constants.rs741# [[row.child]]COMMENT
LOWsrc/options.rs141 .and_then(|s| s.$field)COMMENT
LOWsrc/options/config/temperature_graph.rs1use serde::Deserialize;COMMENT
LOWsrc/options/config/cpu.rs1use serde::Deserialize;COMMENT
LOWsrc/options/config/memory_graph.rs1//! Memory graph configuration.COMMENT
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Synthetic Comment Markers1 hit · 5 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHdocs/content/contribution/documentation.md61Documentation should _never_ be generated by AI. The point of documentation in this project is to communicate things betCODE
AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMscripts/windows/choco/choco_packager.py2# packaging script robust enough, so whatever, hard-code time.COMMENT
Redundant / Tautological Comments2 hits · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW.github/workflows/nightly.yml25 # Check if things should be skipped, or if this is a mock job.COMMENT
LOW.github/workflows/ci.yml35 # Check if things should be skipped.COMMENT
Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWdocs/hooks/nightly_redirect.py45 except Exception as e:CODE