AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager

Name: NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager — 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).

Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

0.8 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager, a TypeScript project with 34,593 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 60,307 lines of code across 734 source files, recording 26 pattern matches distributed across 9 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.8 (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.

0.8

Adjusted Signal

0.8

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-20

Last Push

34.6K

Stars

TypeScript

Language

60.3K

Lines of Code

734

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 2.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 14 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 1.6/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 12 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.2/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 2 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.8/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 26 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 3MEDIUM 3LOW 20

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 26 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.

Magic Placeholder Names2 hits · 10 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	backend/certbot/dns-plugins.json	619	"credentials": "[spaceship]\napi_key=your_api_key\napi_secret=your_api_secret",	CODE
HIGH	backend/certbot/dns-plugins.json	699	"credentials": "dns_lws_login = 123456\ndns_lws_api_key = YOUR_API_KEY",	CODE

Fake / Example Data10 hits · 10 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	backend/internal/user.js	15	const DEFAULT_AVATAR = gravatar.url("admin@example.com", { default: "mm" });	CODE
LOW	backend/schema/paths/audit-log/get.json	27	"name": "John Doe",	CODE
LOW	…d/schema/paths/nginx/redirection-hosts/hostID/put.json	111	"email": "admin@example.com",	CODE
LOW	backend/schema/paths/nginx/streams/post.json	91	"email": "admin@example.com",	CODE
LOW	backend/schema/paths/nginx/streams/streamID/put.json	86	"email": "admin@example.com",	CODE
LOW	backend/schema/paths/nginx/dead-hosts/post.json	94	"email": "admin@example.com",	CODE
LOW	backend/schema/paths/nginx/dead-hosts/hostID/put.json	91	"email": "admin@example.com",	CODE
LOW	backend/schema/paths/nginx/access-lists/post.json	83	"email": "admin@example.com",	CODE
LOW	backend/schema/paths/nginx/access-lists/listID/put.json	92	"email": "admin@example.com",	CODE
LOW	backend/schema/paths/users/userID/login/post.json	39	"name": "John Doe",	CODE

Structural Annotation Overuse6 hits · 9 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	docker/docker-compose.ci.yml	1	# WARNING: This is a CI docker-compose file used for building	COMMENT
LOW	docker/docker-compose.ci.isolated.yml	1	# WARNING: This is a CI docker-compose file used for building and testing of the entire app, it should not be used for p	COMMENT
LOW	docker/docker-compose.dev.yml	1	# WARNING: This is a DEVELOPMENT docker-compose file, it should not be used for production.	COMMENT
LOW	docker/docker-compose.ci.postgres.yml	1	# WARNING: This is a CI docker-compose file used for building and testing of the entire app, it should not be used for p	COMMENT
LOW	docker/docker-compose.ci.mysql.yml	1	# WARNING: This is a CI docker-compose file used for building and testing of the entire app, it should not be used for p	COMMENT
LOW	docker/docker-compose.ci.sqlite.yml	1	# WARNING: This is a CI docker-compose file used for building and testing of the entire app, it should not be used for p	COMMENT

Synthetic Comment Markers1 hit · 8 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	frontend/src/modals/DeleteConfirmModal.tsx	36	// invalidate caches as requested	COMMENT

Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	backend/internal/2fa.js	210	// These guardrails lower the minimum length requirement for secrets.	COMMENT

AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	frontend/src/locale/src/pt.json	396	"defaultMessage": "# Insira aqui a sua configuração Nginx personalizada (utilize por sua conta e risco!)"	CODE

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	…mponents/Table/Formatter/CertificateInUseFormatter.tsx	53	export function CertificateInUseFormatter({ proxyHosts, redirectionHosts, deadHosts, streams }: Props) {	CODE
LOW	frontend/src/api/backend/getCertificateDNSProviders.ts	4	export async function getCertificateDNSProviders(params = {}): Promise<DNSProvider[]> {	CODE

Slop Phrases1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	backend/certbot/dns-plugins.json	627	"credentials": "dns_strato_username = user\ndns_strato_password = pass\n# uncomment if youre using two factor authenti	CODE

Over-Commented Block2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	backend/internal/certificate.js	881		COMMENT
LOW	backend/internal/certificate.js	1001	//	COMMENT