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This report summarizes scanner evidence for DevToys-app/DevToys, a C# project with 32,074 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 67,985 lines of code across 730 source files, recording 436 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 9.4 (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? 427 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 8 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 7 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 436 finding(s).
Run additional scans to build a history of the legacy pattern signal. Score changes are not a measure of AI adoption or code quality.
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 436 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 | …oys.UnitTests/Mocks/Tools/MockToolResource.Designer.cs | 1 | //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | COMMENT |
| LOW | …oys.MacOS/Controls/BlazorWebView/UrlLoadingStrategy.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.MacOS.Controls.BlazorWebView; | COMMENT |
| LOW | …oys.MacOS/Controls/BlazorWebView/UrlLoadingStrategy.cs | 21 | /// This strategy should not be used for external links unless you can ensure they are fully trusted. | COMMENT |
| LOW | …evToys.MacOS/Controls/BlazorWebView/BlazorWKWebView.cs | 81 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | …ys.MacOS/Controls/BlazorWebView/UrlLoadingEventArgs.cs | 21 | private UrlLoadingEventArgs(Uri url, UrlLoadingStrategy urlLoadingStrategy) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …esktop/DevToys.Windows/Strings/Other/Other.Designer.cs | 1 | //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | COMMENT |
| LOW | …op/DevToys.Windows/Strings/TaskBar/TaskBar.Designer.cs | 1 | //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | COMMENT |
| LOW | …/desktop/DevToys.Windows/Core/QualityOfServiceLevel.cs | 1 | using System.Runtime.Versioning; | COMMENT |
| LOW | …/desktop/DevToys.Windows/Core/QualityOfServiceLevel.cs | 21 | /// Description: Windowed applications that are in the foreground and in focus, or audible, | COMMENT |
| LOW | …/desktop/DevToys.Windows/Core/QualityOfServiceLevel.cs | 41 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | …/desktop/DevToys.Windows/Core/QualityOfServiceLevel.cs | 61 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | …orms/desktop/DevToys.Windows/Core/Helpers/DpiHelper.cs | 61 | /// The device DPI Y value. | COMMENT |
| LOW | …s.Linux/Components/BlazorWebView/UrlLoadingStrategy.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Linux.Components; | COMMENT |
| LOW | …s.Linux/Components/BlazorWebView/UrlLoadingStrategy.cs | 21 | /// This strategy should not be used for external links unless you can ensure they are fully trusted. | COMMENT |
| LOW | ….Linux/Components/BlazorWebView/UrlLoadingEventArgs.cs | 21 | private UrlLoadingEventArgs(Uri url, UrlLoadingStrategy urlLoadingStrategy) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …/DevToys.CLI/Strings/CliStrings/CliStrings.Designer.cs | 1 | //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Core/TitleBarInfoProvider.cs | 21 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Core/AppHelper.cs | 21 | .GetCustomAttribute(typeof(AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute))!; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Core/Tools/GuiToolProvider.cs | 501 | /// - Recent tool 1 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Core/Tools/SmartDetectionService.cs | 21 | // Build a hierarchy of detectors based on their indicated base data type name. | COMMENT |
| LOW | …/app/dev/DevToys.Core/Tools/ViewItems/GroupViewItem.cs | 61 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | …/app/dev/DevToys.Core/Tools/ViewItems/GroupViewItem.cs | 81 | public string IconFontName { get; } | COMMENT |
| LOW | …pp/dev/DevToys.Core/Tools/ViewItems/GuiToolViewItem.cs | 21 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/TextSpan.cs | 21 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/IMefProvider.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Settings/ISettingsProvider.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Settings/ISettingsProvider.cs | 21 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Settings/SettingDefinition.cs | 21 | public T DefaultValue { get; } | COMMENT |
| LOW | …pp/dev/DevToys.Api/Settings/SettingChangedEventArgs.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | …pp/dev/DevToys.Api/Strings/ApiText/ApiText.Designer.cs | 1 | //------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ResultInfoSeverity.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/IFileStorage.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/IFileStorage.cs | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/IFileStorage.cs | 41 | /// <returns>If succeeded, returns the absolute path to the folder the user selected, otherwise, returns null.</retu | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/IFileStorage.cs | 61 | /// Tries to open the given <paramref name="relativeOrAbsoluteFilePath"/> with write access rights. The file will be | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ResultInfo.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ResultInfo.cs | 21 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ResultInfo.cs | 61 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ResultInfo.cs | 81 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/SandboxedFileReader.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/SandboxedFileReader.cs | 41 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ObservableHashSet.cs | 21 | /// that is empty and uses the default equality comparer for the set type. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ObservableHashSet.cs | 41 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ObservableHashSet.cs | 61 | /// <param name="comparer"> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ObservableHashSet.cs | 121 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ObservableHashSet.cs | 321 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ObservableHashSet.cs | 341 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ObservableHashSet.cs | 361 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/ObservableHashSet.cs | 381 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/IClipboard.cs | 1 | using SixLabors.ImageSharp; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/IClipboard.cs | 21 | /// Retrieves text from the system clipboard. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/IClipboard.cs | 41 | /// <remarks> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/IClipboard.cs | 61 | /// </remarks> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/DictionaryExtensions.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/LoggingExtensions.cs | 21 | _loggerFactory = value; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/Theme/IThemeListener.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/Theme/IThemeListener.cs | 21 | ApplicationTheme ActualAppTheme { get; } | COMMENT |
| LOW | …ev/DevToys.Api/Core/Theme/AvailableApplicationTheme.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | …c/app/dev/DevToys.Api/Core/Threading/TaskExtensions.cs | 1 | namespace DevToys.Api; | COMMENT |
| LOW | …dev/DevToys.Api/Core/Threading/TaskSchedulerAwaiter.cs | 21 | cancellationToken); | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | …oys.UnitTests/Mocks/Tools/MockToolResource.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …evToys.MacOS/Strings/AppMenuBar/AppMenuBar.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …esktop/DevToys.Windows/Strings/Other/Other.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …op/DevToys.Windows/Strings/TaskBar/TaskBar.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …/desktop/DevToys.Linux/Strings/Other/Other.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …/DevToys.CLI/Strings/CliStrings/CliStrings.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …pp/dev/DevToys.Api/Strings/ApiText/ApiText.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | src/app/dev/shared/SharedAssemblyInfo.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | src/app/dev/shared/SharedAssemblyVersion.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …zation/Strings/ToolGroupPage/ToolGroupPage.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …Localization/Strings/MainWindow/MainWindow.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …tion/Strings/WhatsNewDialog/WhatsNewDialog.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …oys.Localization/Strings/ToolPage/ToolPage.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …zation/Strings/UIImageViewer/UIImageViewer.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …lization/Strings/ToggleSwitch/ToggleSwitch.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …ings/UITextInputWrapper/UITextInputWrapper.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …eSelectorPresenter/UIFileSelectorPresenter.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …vToys.Localization/Strings/InfoBar/InfoBar.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …Localization/Strings/UIDataGrid/UIDataGrid.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …/Strings/FirstStartDialog/FirstStartDialog.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …vToys.Localization/Strings/TextBox/TextBox.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …Toys.Blazor/BuiltInTools/Settings/Settings.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …ools/SupportDevelopment/SupportDevelopment.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …nTools/ExtensionsManager/ExtensionsManager.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …pp/dev/DevToys.Blazor/BuiltInGroups/Groups.Designer.cs | 3 | // This code was generated by a tool. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | …nerators/ResxHelperGenerator/CultureHelperGenerator.cs | 106 | builder.AppendLine("// This code was generated by ResxHelperGenerator."); | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRITICAL | …pp/dev/DevToys.Blazor/wwwroot/js/simplebar-modified.js | 860 | _this.axis.x.track.rect = _this.axis.x.track.el.getBoundingClientRect(); | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …pp/dev/DevToys.Blazor/wwwroot/js/simplebar-modified.js | 861 | _this.axis.y.track.rect = _this.axis.y.track.el.getBoundingClientRect(); | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …pp/dev/DevToys.Blazor/wwwroot/js/simplebar-modified.js | 875 | _this.axis.x.scrollbar.el.getBoundingClientRect(); | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …pp/dev/DevToys.Blazor/wwwroot/js/simplebar-modified.js | 885 | _this.axis.y.scrollbar.el.getBoundingClientRect(); | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | …evToys.Blazor/Components/Text/TextBox/TextBox.razor.js | 10 | export function initializeKeyboardTracking(input) { | CODE |
| LOW | …evToys.Blazor/Components/Text/TextBox/TextBox.razor.ts | 13 | export function initializeKeyboardTracking(input: HTMLInputElement): void { | CODE |
| LOW | …azor/Components/Collections/GridView/GridView.razor.ts | 9 | export function initializeDynamicItemSize(id: string, itemMinWidth: number): void { | CODE |
| LOW | …azor/Components/Collections/GridView/GridView.razor.ts | 59 | function fitGridViewItemsToContainer(gridView: HTMLElement, gridViewBounds: DOMRectReadOnly, itemMinWidth: number): void | CODE |
| LOW | …azor/Components/Collections/GridView/GridView.razor.js | 8 | export function initializeDynamicItemSize(id, itemMinWidth) { | CODE |
| LOW | …azor/Components/Collections/GridView/GridView.razor.js | 49 | function fitGridViewItemsToContainer(gridView, gridViewBounds, itemMinWidth) { | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | chocolatey/README.md | 16 | ```choco apikey --key yourapikey --source https://push.chocolatey.org/``` | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | README.md | 25 | - **Generators**: Hash & Checksum, Lorem Ipsum, Password... | CODE |
| LOW | …/BuiltInDataTypeDetectors/JsonDataTypeDetectorTests.cs | 21 | [InlineData("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW | …/BuiltInDataTypeDetectors/JsonDataTypeDetectorTests.cs | 21 | [InlineData("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | tools/Restore-MonacoEditor.sh | 13 | # ------------------------ | COMMENT |