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This report summarizes scanner evidence for CocoaLumberjack/CocoaLumberjack, a Objective-C project with 13,322 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 44,409 lines of code across 321 source files, recording 232 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 5.7 (Moderate 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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 229 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 3 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 232 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 232 distinct pattern matches across 7 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 | uncrustify.cfg | 1 | # | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/CustomLogLevels.md | 41 | // Info | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/CustomLogLevels.md | 61 | #define LOG_FLAG_INFO (1 << 4) // 0...010000 | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/CustomLogLevels.md | 81 | ```objc | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/CustomLogLevels.md | 101 | #undef LOG_FLAG_DEBUG | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/CustomLogLevels.md | 121 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Documentation/CustomLogLevels.md | 141 | #define LOG_LEVEL_INFO (LOG_FLAG_INFO | LOG_LEVEL_NOTICE) // 0...011111 | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/CustomLogLevels.md | 161 | #define DDLogCNotice(frmt, ...) ASYNC_LOG_C_MAYBE(ddLogLevel, LOG_FLAG_NOTICE, 0, frmt, ##__VA_ARGS__) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Documentation/PerUserLogLevels.md | 41 | # E.g. "Robbie Hanson" | COMMENT |
| LOW | …OSSwiftIntegration Extension/InterfaceController.swift | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …wiftIntegration Extension/NotificationController.swift | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …chOSSwiftIntegration Extension/ExtensionDelegate.swift | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Integration/macOSSwiftIntegration/main.swift | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Integration/Sources/ViewController.swift | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Integration/Sources/AppDelegate.h | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Integration/Sources/ViewController.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Integration/Sources/main.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Integration/Sources/Formatter.swift | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Integration/Sources/AppDelegate.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Integration/Sources/AppDelegate.swift | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Integration/Sources/ViewController.h | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDSampleFileManager.h | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDOSLoggingTests.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDLogFileManagerTests.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDBasicLoggingTests.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …ts/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDFileLoggerPerformanceTests.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDSMocking.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDAtomicCounterTests.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDFileLoggerTests.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDSampleFileManager.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …ackTests/DDContextFilterLogFormatter+DeprecatedTests.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …ocoaLumberjackTests/DDContextFilterLogFormatterTests.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDLogTests.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDLogMessageTests.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackTests/DDSMocking.h | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …LumberjackSwiftLogBackendTests/DDLogHandlerTests.swift | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackSwiftTests/DDLogCombineTests.swift | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Tests/CocoaLumberjackSwiftTests/DDLogCombineTests.swift | 181 | #endif | COMMENT |
| LOW | …ocoaLumberjackSwiftTests/DDLogMessageFormatTests.swift | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …rt/include/CocoaLumberjackSwiftSupport/SwiftLogLevel.h | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …rt/include/CocoaLumberjackSwiftSupport/SwiftLogLevel.h | 21 | #ifndef DD_LOG_LEVEL | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDFileLogger+Internal.h | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDTTYLogger.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDTTYLogger.m | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDTTYLogger.m | 41 | // Xcode does NOT natively support colors in the Xcode debugging console. | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDTTYLogger.m | 61 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDTTYLogger.m | 281 | // These are actually configurable, and thus we ignore them for the purposes of mapping, | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDTTYLogger.m | 601 | // These are the colors xterm shells use in xterm-256color mode. | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDOSLogger.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDASLLogger.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDLog.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDLog.m | 21 | #import <objc/runtime.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDLog.m | 41 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDLog.m | 301 | // we want to simply enqueue the logMessage. And we want to do this as fast as possible, | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDLog.m | 521 | __auto_type setter = class_getClassMethod(class, setterSel); | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDLog.m | 1141 | if ((self = [super init])) { | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDLog.m | 1181 | - (void)logMessage:(DDLogMessage * __attribute__((unused)))logMessage { | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDLog.m | 1201 | // Thread safety is ensured by executing access to the formatter variable on the loggerQueue. | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDLog.m | 1221 | // globalLoggingQueue : The queue that all log messages go through before they arrive in our loggerQueue. | COMMENT |
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDLoggerNames.m | 1 | // Software License Agreement (BSD License) | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | uncrustify.cfg | 71 | # ----------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | uncrustify.cfg | 93 | # -------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | uncrustify.cfg | 158 | # ----------- | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | …ebServerIPhone/Vendor/CocoaHTTPServer/HTTPConnection.m | 1990 | // If you add a body, don't forget to update the Content-Length. | COMMENT |
| LOW | …mos/WebServerIPhone/Vendor/CocoaHTTPServer/WebSocket.m | 549 | // Don't forget to invoke [super didOpen] in your method. | COMMENT |
| LOW | …mos/WebServerIPhone/Vendor/CocoaHTTPServer/WebSocket.m | 637 | // Don't forget to invoke [super didClose] at the end of your method. | COMMENT |
| LOW | …or/CocoaHTTPServer/Responses/HTTPDynamicFileResponse.m | 211 | // And don't forget to update our indices. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | …bServerIPhone/Vendor/CocoaAsyncSocket/GCDAsyncSocket.m | 4276 | // As mentioned earlier, there are encrypted packets coming across the TCP stream. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | …bServerIPhone/Vendor/CocoaAsyncSocket/GCDAsyncSocket.m | 4563 | // even if it didn't read as much data as requested. So we need to watch out for that. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | …SwiftLogBackend/DDLogMessage+SwiftLogInformation.swift | 73 | /// Essentially: `logger.metadata < logger.metadataProvider < message.metadata` | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | Scripts/generate-podspec.sh | 69 | # Read files | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | Sources/CocoaLumberjack/DDFileLogger.m | 1138 | // If we're resuming, we need to check if the log file is allowed for reuse or needs to be archived. | COMMENT |