Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
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.
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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 119 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 1 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 120 finding(s).
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.
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.
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.
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.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | tests/valid_configs/all_styling.toml | 1 | # These are all the components that support custom theming. Note that colour support | COMMENT |
| LOW | tests/valid_configs/all_styling_color.toml | 1 | # Styling but we use "color" everywhere. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tests/integration/layout_movement_tests.rs | 1 | // TODO: Test basic mode | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/build_releases.yml | 1 | # Builds the following releases: | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/ci.yml | 121 | command: clippy | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 1 | # This is a default config file for bottom. All of the settings are commented | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 21 | #rate = "1s" | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 41 | # Whether to make process searching case sensitive by default. | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 61 | #default_time_value = "60s" | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 81 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 101 | #tree = false | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 121 | # Deprecated - use network_graph.use_log. | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 141 | #enable_cache_memory = false | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 161 | # PID, Name, CPU%, Mem%, Swap, R/s, W/s, T.Read, T.Write, User, State, Time, GMem%, GPU%, Nice, Priority | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 181 | # Shows the full command name instead of the process name by default. | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 201 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 221 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 241 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 261 | #[disk.mount_filter] | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 281 | #show_read = true | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 301 | #is_list_ignored = true | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 321 | # Defaults to "Sensor". | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 341 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 361 | #list = ["cpu", "wifi"] | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 381 | # Subtract ARC memory that can be freed from memory usage. Only available if the ZFS feature is enabled when built. | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 401 | # A list of filters to try and match. | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 421 | # - "nord" | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 441 | #cache_colour = "light red" | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 461 | #graph_colour = "gray" | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 481 | # [[row.child.child]] represents a widget. | COMMENT |
| LOW | sample_configs/default_config.toml | 501 | #[[row]] | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 261 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 281 | # 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 |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 301 | # The temperature unit. One of the following, defaults to "c" for Celsius: | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 321 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 341 | # Disable keyboard shortcuts | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 361 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 381 | # Deprecated - use processes.hide_k_threads. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 401 | #memory_legend = "top-right" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 421 | # Gather process child thread information | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 441 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 461 | #[cpu] | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 481 | # Defaults to "Disk". | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 501 | #regex = true | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 521 | #case_sensitive = false | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 541 | # Where to place the legend. One of "none", "top-left", "top", "top-right", "left", "right", "bottom-left", "bottom", "b | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 561 | # Whether to require matching the whole word. Defaults to false. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 581 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 601 | # there is no limit. Is in the configured temperature unit. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 621 | # Memory widget configuration | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 641 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 661 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 681 | #all_entry_colour = "green" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 701 | #[styles.battery] | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 721 | #bg_colour = "black" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/constants.rs | 741 | # [[row.child]] | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options.rs | 141 | .and_then(|s| s.$field) | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/config/temperature_graph.rs | 1 | use serde::Deserialize; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/config/cpu.rs | 1 | use serde::Deserialize; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/config/memory_graph.rs | 1 | //! Memory graph configuration. | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | docs/content/contribution/documentation.md | 61 | Documentation should _never_ be generated by AI. The point of documentation in this project is to communicate things bet | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | scripts/windows/choco/choco_packager.py | 2 | # packaging script robust enough, so whatever, hard-code time. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | .github/workflows/nightly.yml | 25 | # Check if things should be skipped, or if this is a mock job. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/ci.yml | 35 | # Check if things should be skipped. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | docs/hooks/nightly_redirect.py | 45 | except Exception as e: | CODE |