Turn Claude Code into a full game dev studio — 49 AI agents, 72 workflow skills, and a complete coordination system mirroring real studio hierarchy.
This report summarizes scanner evidence for Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios, a Shell project with 30,788 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 123,623 lines of code across 628 source files, recording 311 pattern matches distributed across 9 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 3.2 (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? 294 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 1 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 16 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 311 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 311 distinct pattern matches across 9 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 |
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| LOW | project.yaml | 1 | # CCGS project configuration — single source of truth for project settings. | COMMENT |
| LOW | project.yaml | 21 | # and saves would stop changing anything. `/start` states the same rule for the | COMMENT |
| LOW | design/registry/entities.yaml | 1 | # Game World Entity Registry | COMMENT |
| LOW | design/registry/entities.yaml | 21 | # after asking) | COMMENT |
| LOW | design/registry/entities.yaml | 41 | # path; referenced_by.*inventory never matches) | COMMENT |
| LOW | design/registry/entities.yaml | 61 | # Register an entity here when it appears in more than one GDD — e.g., an | COMMENT |
| LOW | design/registry/entities.yaml | 81 | # drops: | COMMENT |
| LOW | design/registry/entities.yaml | 101 | # items: | COMMENT |
| LOW | design/registry/entities.yaml | 121 | # | COMMENT |
| LOW | design/registry/entities.yaml | 141 | # - crit_multiplier | COMMENT |
| LOW | design/registry/entities.yaml | 161 | # Example: | COMMENT |
| LOW | design/registry/entities.yaml | 181 | # - design/gdd/progression.md # progression unlocks additional slots | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/statusline.sh | 1 | #!/usr/bin/env bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/statusline.sh | 161 | fi | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/docs/workflow-catalog.yaml | 1 | # Workflow Catalog | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-write.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-write.sh | 21 | # overriding a caller that legitimately means somewhere else. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-write.sh | 41 | # step, because hooks do not run in every tool. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-read.sh | 21 | # features.read_guard_kb (40 KB); features.read_guard: off turns it off. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-push.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-push.sh | 21 | # overriding a caller that legitimately means somewhere else. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-push.sh | 41 | # | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-skill-change.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-skill-change.sh | 21 | # overriding a caller that legitimately means somewhere else. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-skill-change.sh | 41 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/detect-gaps.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/detect-gaps.sh | 61 | # Check if a design record exists. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/detect-gaps.sh | 81 | # `Source/`. Testing only `src/` meant a Unity project with a full codebase | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/detect-gaps.sh | 161 | fi | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/detect-gaps.sh | 301 | echo "⚠️ GAP: Large codebase ($SRC_FILES files) but no production planning found" | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/session-stop.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/session-stop.sh | 21 | # overriding a caller that legitimately means somewhere else. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/session-stop.sh | 61 | # APPEND ONLY WHEN THE CONTENT CHANGED. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/pre-compact.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/pre-compact.sh | 21 | # overriding a caller that legitimately means somewhere else. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-agent-artifact.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-agent-artifact.sh | 21 | # overriding a caller that legitimately means somewhere else. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-agent-artifact.sh | 41 | # from its prompt only: the transcript's first user message. The rest of the | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/log-agent-stop.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/log-agent-stop.sh | 21 | # overriding a caller that legitimately means somewhere else. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/update-check.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/update-check.sh | 21 | # Cross-platform: Windows Git Bash, macOS bash 3.2, Linux. Needs curl or wget | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 41 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 61 | # starting t or n became a tab or a line break), the -C check below found | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 81 | # `C:\Git\cmd\git.exe`) are allowed, and a QUOTED path to git ("C:\Program | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 101 | # next before any of this runs, so `git \` then `commit` on the next line is | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 181 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 241 | WT_FILES=$($_GIT diff --name-only 2>/dev/null) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 261 | # A relative pathspec resolves where the commit runs, and this hook runs at the | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 441 | fi | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 461 | # scan announces that it did not run instead of skipping in silence. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 481 | # Two independent fixes, because either alone is a mitigation rather than a | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 601 | # `standard`, and no GDD requirement at all at `minimal`. A jam project on the | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 641 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 721 | WARNINGS="$WARNINGS\nSKIPPED: no writable scratch location, so the GDD section check did NOT run on the stag | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 741 | # | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/log-instructions.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/log-instructions.sh | 21 | # | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/log-instructions.sh | 41 | # this hook the only way to get it was to infer it from behaviour afterwards. | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW⚡ | .claude/docs/hooks-reference/pre-push-test-gate.md | 33 | # Step 1: Build | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | .claude/docs/hooks-reference/pre-push-test-gate.md | 41 | # Step 2: Unit tests | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | .claude/docs/hooks-reference/pre-push-test-gate.md | 50 | # Step 3: Integration tests (only for protected branches) | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | .claude/docs/hooks-reference/pre-push-test-gate.md | 55 | # Step 4: Smoke tests | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | .claude/docs/hooks-reference/pre-push-test-gate.md | 60 | # Step 5: Performance regression check | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | .claude/docs/templates/adoption-plan.md | 13 | ## Step 1: Fix Blocking Gaps | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | .claude/docs/templates/adoption-plan.md | 19 | ## Step 2: Fix High-Priority Gaps | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | .claude/docs/templates/adoption-plan.md | 25 | ## Step 3: Bootstrap Infrastructure | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/docs/templates/adoption-plan.md | 55 | ## Step 4: Medium-Priority Gaps | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/docs/templates/adoption-plan.md | 61 | ## Step 5: Optional Improvements | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | .claude/skills/adopt/references/6-write.md | 28 | ## Step 1: Fix Blocking Gaps | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | .claude/skills/adopt/references/6-write.md | 34 | ## Step 2: Fix High-Priority Gaps | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | .claude/skills/adopt/references/6-write.md | 40 | ## Step 3: Bootstrap Infrastructure | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/adopt/references/6-write.md | 70 | ## Step 4: Medium-Priority Gaps | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/adopt/references/6-write.md | 76 | ## Step 5: Optional Improvements | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/team-audio/SKILL.md | 126 | ### Step 1: Audio Direction (audio-director) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/team-audio/SKILL.md | 134 | ### Step 2: Sound Design and Audio Accessibility (parallel) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/team-audio/SKILL.md | 155 | ### Step 3: Technical Implementation (parallel) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/team-audio/SKILL.md | 171 | ### Step 4: Code Integration (gameplay-programmer) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/help/SKILL.md | 33 | ## Step 1: Read the Catalog | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/help/SKILL.md | 64 | ## Step 2: Determine Current Phase | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/help/SKILL.md | 99 | ## Step 3: Read Session Context | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/help/SKILL.md | 118 | ## Step 4: Check Step Completion for the Current Phase | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/help/SKILL.md | 244 | ## Step 5: Find Position and Identify Next Steps | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/help/SKILL.md | 264 | ## Step 6: Check for In-Progress Work | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/help/SKILL.md | 272 | ## Step 7: Present Output | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/help/SKILL.md | 334 | ## Step 8: Gate Warning (if close) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/help/SKILL.md | 345 | ## Step 9: Escalation Paths | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/team-level/SKILL.md | 123 | ### Step 1: Narrative + Visual Direction (narrative-director + world-builder + art-director, parallel) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/team-level/SKILL.md | 148 | ### Step 2: Layout and Encounter Design (level-designer) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/team-level/SKILL.md | 173 | ### Step 3: Systems Integration (systems-designer) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/team-level/SKILL.md | 183 | ### Step 4: Production Concepts + Accessibility (art-director + accessibility-specialist, parallel) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/skills/team-level/SKILL.md | 209 | ### Step 5: QA Planning (qa-tester) | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/WORKFLOW-GUIDE.md | 47 | ### Step 1: Clone and Open | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/WORKFLOW-GUIDE.md | 54 | ### Step 2: Run /start | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/WORKFLOW-GUIDE.md | 72 | ### Step 3: Verify Hooks Are Working | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/WORKFLOW-GUIDE.md | 88 | ### Step 4: Ask for Help Anytime | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/WORKFLOW-GUIDE.md | 102 | ### Step 5: Create Your Directory Structure | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | design/registry/entities.yaml | 59 | # ─── ENTITIES ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | design/registry/entities.yaml | 89 | # ─── ITEMS ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | design/registry/entities.yaml | 117 | # ─── FORMULAS ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | design/registry/entities.yaml | 151 | # ─── CONSTANTS ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 470 | # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 498 | # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/hooks/yaml-helper.sh | 217 | # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/hooks/yaml-helper.sh | 219 | # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/hooks/yaml-helper.sh | 1180 | # ============================================================================= | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/hooks/yaml-helper.sh | 1195 | # ============================================================================= | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | docs/registry/architecture.yaml | 45 | # ─── STATE OWNERSHIP ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | docs/registry/architecture.yaml | 75 | # ─── INTERFACE CONTRACTS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | docs/registry/architecture.yaml | 106 | # ─── PERFORMANCE BUDGETS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | docs/registry/architecture.yaml | 136 | # ─── API DECISIONS ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | docs/registry/architecture.yaml | 162 | # ─── FORBIDDEN PATTERNS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | studio-tests/skills/utility/test-setup.md | 163 | ### Case 5: Director Gate Check — No gate; test-setup is a scaffolding utility | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | studio-tests/skills/utility/test-helpers.md | 163 | ### Case 5: Director Gate Check — No gate; test-helpers is a scaffolding utility | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/docs/run-and-observe.md | 57 | ### Godot 4 — zero scaffold | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/docs/effects-map.md | 410 | ### Team orchestration skills (pipeline behavior — different relationship) | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/docs/error-recovery-protocol.md | 4 | the `## Error Recovery Protocol` section of each orchestration and review skill. | CODE |
| MEDIUM | .claude/hooks/validate-agent-artifact.sh | 34 | # the file its return contract named. An orchestrating skill ends each agent | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/scripts/write-guard.sh | 196 | # QA evidence folder. Other paths never ask test-scaffold.sh. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/scripts/write-guard.sh | 200 | # The files /test-setup creates, as test-scaffold.sh lists them per engine. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/scripts/test-scaffold.sh | 2 | # test-scaffold.sh — creates the files /test-setup scaffolds for one engine, | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/scripts/test-scaffold.sh | 14 | # Usage: bash .claude/scripts/test-scaffold.sh ENGINE [--dry-run | --list] [--root DIR] | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/scripts/test-scaffold.sh | 19 | # --list print the project-relative paths this engine's scaffold | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/scripts/gdd-structure-check.sh | 5 | # hallucinate a missing section. This is the cheapest real win available: the | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | docs/registry/architecture.yaml | 178 | # Use dependency injection or signals instead." | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | .claude/hooks/yaml-helper.sh | 457 | # That is not a test-harness artifact. Any real project nested inside another | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/hooks/session-start.sh | 37 | # Observed on real harness events as a single line of JSON with session_id, | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .claude/hooks/session-start.sh | 39 | # Do NOT read stdin here unboundedly -- the harness may leave it open, and a | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | .claude/statusline.sh | 110 | # Check if engine is configured (project.yaml first, fall back to technical-preferences.md) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-push.sh | 241 | # Check if pushing to a protected branch: main, master, or any release/* | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/detect-gaps.sh | 46 | # Check if engine is configured (project.yaml first, fall back to technical-preferences.md) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/detect-gaps.sh | 61 | # Check if a design record exists. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/hooks/detect-gaps.sh | 77 | # Check if source code exists. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | .claude/hooks/yaml-helper.sh | 70 | # Usage: | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/scripts/rotate-session-state.sh | 21 | # Usage: | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/scripts/gdd-structure-check.sh | 24 | # Usage: | COMMENT |
| LOW | .claude/scripts/review-receipts.sh | 41 | # Usage: | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | studio-tests/agents/specialists/writer.md | 36 | - Does not produce even partial world history as a "placeholder" | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | .claude/hooks/validate-commit.sh | 558 | except Exception: | CODE |