AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

KaTeX/KaTeX

Name: KaTeX/KaTeX — TypeScript Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
Creator: AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

Fast math typesetting for the web.

1.0 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for KaTeX/KaTeX, a TypeScript project with 20,482 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 67,946 lines of code across 218 source files, recording 43 pattern matches distributed across 8 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.0 (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.

1.0

Adjusted Signal

1.0

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-30

Last Push

20.5K

Stars

TypeScript

Language

67.9K

Lines of Code

218

Files

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 3.7/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 35 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.7/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 6 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.6/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 4 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.8/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 43 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 0HIGH 1MEDIUM 2LOW 40

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 43 distinct pattern matches across 8 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 Block19 hits · 19 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	update-sri.js	1	// Update badge and CDN urls and subresource integrity hashes	COMMENT
LOW	test/screenshotter/ss_data.yaml	1	# List of test cases for which we create screenshots and other documents.	COMMENT
LOW	website/static/css/custom.css	141	#spacing-tbl td:nth-of-type(4)::before { content: "Produces:"; }	COMMENT
LOW	website/static/css/custom.css	161	#unit-blocks td:nth-of-type(2)::before { content: "textstyle:"; }	COMMENT
LOW	contrib/mhchem/mhchem.js	101	//	COMMENT
LOW	contrib/mhchem/mhchem.js	121	// buffer.rdt == arrow, script above, type	COMMENT
LOW	contrib/mhchem/mhchem.js	181	//	COMMENT
LOW	src/delimiter.ts	821	// exactly match TeX's calculation, we could do	COMMENT
LOW	src/buildCommon.ts	461	type VListParam = {	COMMENT
LOW	src/stretchy.ts	81	// distortion of arrowheads or brace corners.	COMMENT
LOW	src/unicodeScripts.ts	41	name: 'armenian',	COMMENT
LOW	src/macros.ts	341	//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////	COMMENT
LOW	src/macros.ts	541	// Spacing, based on amsmath.sty's override of LaTeX defaults	COMMENT
LOW	src/macros.ts	561	defineMacro("\\thickspace", "\\;");	COMMENT
LOW	src/macros.ts	621	// TODO: Doesn't normally work in math mode because \@ fails. KaTeX doesn't	COMMENT
LOW	src/fontMetrics.ts	21	// provided in the arrays below, in that order.	COMMENT
LOW	src/svgGeometry.ts	1	/**	COMMENT
LOW	src/buildMathML.ts	321		COMMENT
LOW	src/types/index.ts	1	export type Mode = "math" \| "text";	COMMENT

Verbosity Indicators7 hits · 15 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	95	// Step 1: write key.tex file	COMMENT
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	97	// Step 2: call "pdflatex key" to create key.pdf	COMMENT
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	103	// Step 3: call "convert ... key.pdf key.png" to create key.png	COMMENT
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	110	// Step 4: apply FFT to that	COMMENT
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	113	// Step 5: apply FFT to reference image as well	COMMENT
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	118	// Step 6: find alignment which maximizes overlap.	COMMENT
LOW	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	166	// Step 7: use these offsets to compute difference illustration	COMMENT

Structural Annotation Overuse7 hits · 15 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	95	// Step 1: write key.tex file	COMMENT
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	97	// Step 2: call "pdflatex key" to create key.pdf	COMMENT
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	103	// Step 3: call "convert ... key.pdf key.png" to create key.png	COMMENT
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	110	// Step 4: apply FFT to that	COMMENT
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	113	// Step 5: apply FFT to reference image as well	COMMENT
LOW⚡	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	118	// Step 6: find alignment which maximizes overlap.	COMMENT
LOW	dockers/texcmp/texcmp.js	166	// Step 7: use these offsets to compute difference illustration	COMMENT

Decorative Section Separators2 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	src/functions/horizBrace.ts	41	// Generate the vlist, with the appropriate kerns ┏━━━━━━━━┓	COMMENT
MEDIUM	src/functions/horizBrace.ts	74	// ┏━━━━━━━━┓ or ┏━━━┓ not ┏━━━━━━━━━┓	COMMENT

Cross-Language Confusion (JS/TS)1 hit · 5 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	test/setup.ts	34	print(val: unknown) {	CODE

Fake / Example Data3 hits · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	contrib/auto-render/test/auto-render-spec.ts	354	const textNodes = ['Lorem ipsum dolor',	CODE
LOW	static/index.html	73	placeholder="Lorem ipsum"	CODE
LOW	static/index.html	80	placeholder="Lorem ipsum"	CODE

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	static/main.js	86	function getClampedMobileOptionsHeight(height) {	CODE
LOW	static/main.js	129	function getCurrentMobileOptionsHeight() {	CODE

Unused Imports2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	src/fonts/generate_fonts.py	5		CODE
LOW	src/fonts/generate_fonts.py	8		CODE