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HiddenRamblings/TagMo

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0.6 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for HiddenRamblings/TagMo, a JavaScript project with 3,221 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 56,807 lines of code across 410 source files, recording 13 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.6 (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.

0.6
Adjusted Signal
0.6
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-09-07
Last Push
3.2K
Stars
JavaScript
Language
56.8K
Lines of Code
410
Files
13
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 1.4/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 11 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 1.7/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 2 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 2.9/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 13 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 1LOW 10

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 13 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.

Hallucination Indicators2 hits · 20 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
CRITICAL…ramblings/tagmo/translate/DynamicTranslationManager.kt128 return com.google.mlkit.nl.translate.TranslateLanguage.fromLanguageTag(CODE
CRITICAL…ramblings/tagmo/translate/DynamicTranslationManager.kt130 ) ?: com.google.mlkit.nl.translate.TranslateLanguage.fromLanguageTag(locale.language)CODE
Verbosity Indicators3 hits · 4 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…java/com/hiddenramblings/tagmo/qrcode/QRCodeScanner.kt206 // Step 1: Manually decrypt using AES/CTR (CCM uses CTR for encryption)COMMENT
LOW…java/com/hiddenramblings/tagmo/qrcode/QRCodeScanner.kt226 // Step 2: Re-encrypt with padded plaintext to verify MACCOMMENT
LOW…java/com/hiddenramblings/tagmo/qrcode/QRCodeScanner.kt237 // Step 3: Verify the first 0x60 bytes matchCOMMENT
Structural Annotation Overuse3 hits · 4 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…java/com/hiddenramblings/tagmo/qrcode/QRCodeScanner.kt206 // Step 1: Manually decrypt using AES/CTR (CCM uses CTR for encryption)COMMENT
LOW…java/com/hiddenramblings/tagmo/qrcode/QRCodeScanner.kt226 // Step 2: Re-encrypt with padded plaintext to verify MACCOMMENT
LOW…java/com/hiddenramblings/tagmo/qrcode/QRCodeScanner.kt237 // Step 3: Verify the first 0x60 bytes matchCOMMENT
Over-Commented Block4 hits · 4 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWapp/libs/free-reflection/CMakeLists.txt41 # Links the target library to the log libraryCOMMENT
LOWapp/libs/free-reflection/art.h41COMMENT
LOWapp/libs/free-reflection/art.h61 // Whether we are running under native debugger.COMMENT
LOWapp/libs/free-reflection/art.h121COMMENT
Slop Phrases1 hit · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUM…/src/main/java/com/shawnlin/numberpicker/Scroller.java39 * <p>Here is a simple example:</p>COMMENT