AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

GoogleContainerTools/skaffold

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Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

1.5 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for GoogleContainerTools/skaffold, a Go project with 15,899 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 684,082 lines of code across 2802 source files, recording 944 pattern matches distributed across 13 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.5 (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.

1.5
Adjusted Signal
1.5
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-26
Last Push
15.9K
Stars
Go
Language
684.1K
Lines of Code
2.8K
Files
944
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 6.9/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 928 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.3/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 16 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.1/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 14 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 6.9/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 944 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 2HIGH 0MEDIUM 11LOW 931

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 944 distinct pattern matches across 13 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 Block868 hits · 868 pts
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LOWintegration/examples/ko/cloudbuild.yaml1# Copyright 2021 The Skaffold AuthorsCOMMENT
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LOWhack/update-lts-dependencies.sh1#!/bin/bashCOMMENT
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Structural Annotation Overuse30 hits · 56 pts
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LOW⚡docs-v1/content/en/docs/tutorials/ci_cd.md49## Step 4: Plugins (optional)COMMENT
LOW⚡docs-v1/content/en/docs/tutorials/ci_cd.md53## Step 5: The `skaffold.yaml` fileCOMMENT
LOW⚡docs-v1/content/en/docs/tutorials/ci_cd.md130## Step 6: Development & Testing locallyCOMMENT
LOW⚡docs-v1/content/en/docs/tutorials/ci_cd.md140## Step 7: Setting up authentication with the registryCOMMENT
LOW⚡docs-v1/content/en/docs/tutorials/ci_cd.md150## Step 8: Using DIND Service (Optional)COMMENT
LOWdocs-v1/content/en/docs/tutorials/ci_cd.md251## Step 9: Getting the CI pipeline setupCOMMENT
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LOW⚡docs-v2/content/en/docs/tutorials/ci_cd.md53## Step 5: The `skaffold.yaml` fileCOMMENT
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LOW⚡docs-v2/content/en/docs/tutorials/ci_cd.md140## Step 7: Setting up authentication with the registryCOMMENT
LOW⚡docs-v2/content/en/docs/tutorials/ci_cd.md150## Step 8: Using DIND Service (Optional)COMMENT
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LOWdocs-v2/content/en/docs/tutorials/ci_cd.md300## Step 10: That’s all folksCOMMENT
Hallucination Indicators2 hits · 30 pts
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AI Slop Vocabulary5 hits · 15 pts
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MEDIUMdocs-v1/static/swagger/swagger-ui-bundle.js79 */Object.defineProperty(t,"__esModule",{value:!0});var r="function"==typeof Symbol&&Symbol.for,o=r?Symbol.for("react.elCOMMENT
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MEDIUMpkg/skaffold/debug/transform_go.go47// dlvSpec captures the useful delve runtime optionsCOMMENT
MEDIUMpkg/skaffold/debug/transform_go.go157 // delve's defaultsCOMMENT
MEDIUMpkg/skaffold/debug/transform_go.go175 // this is actually an error: delve insists on a :portCOMMENT
Hyper-Verbose Identifiers14 hits · 14 pts
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Fake / Example Data13 hits · 13 pts
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Self-Referential Comments2 hits · 6 pts
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MEDIUMhack/generate-k3d-registries.sh17# Create a k3s/k3d registries.yaml to use the docker daemon's configured registry-mirrors.COMMENT
MEDIUMhack/generate-kind-config.sh17# Create a kind configuration to use the docker daemon's configured registry-mirrors.COMMENT
Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary2 hits · 4 pts
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MEDIUM…cs-v1/content/en/docs/tutorials/config-dependencies.md7Skaffold's [config dependencies]({{<relref "/docs/design/config#configuration-dependencies" >}}) feature allows you to iCODE
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Slop Phrases2 hits · 4 pts
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TODO Padding2 hits · 3 pts
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LOWpkg/skaffold/inspect/output.go26 // TODO: implement other output formatters. Currently only JSON is implementedCOMMENT
LOWpkg/skaffold/deploy/cloudrun/deploy.go91 // TODO: implement logger for Cloud Run.COMMENT
Overly Generic Function Names2 hits · 2 pts
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Unused Imports1 hit · 1 pts
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LOWhack/boilerplate/boilerplate.py17CODE
Deep Nesting1 hit · 1 pts
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