AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

SagerNet/sing-box

Name: SagerNet/sing-box — Go 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).

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0.2 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for SagerNet/sing-box, a Go project with 39,467 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 270,045 lines of code across 1590 source files, recording 39 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.2 (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.

0.2

Adjusted Signal

0.2

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-28

Last Push

39.5K

Stars

Language

270.0K

Lines of Code

1.6K

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 0.8/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 29 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.2/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 10 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

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

PR Review Velocity Impact 0.9/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 39 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 0MEDIUM 4LOW 35

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 39 distinct pattern matches across 7 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 Block17 hits · 17 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	experimental/libbox/signal_handler_darwin.go	41	// Do NOT call Go's handler directly — Go's preparePanic only modifies the	COMMENT
LOW	experimental/libbox/signal_handler_darwin.go	121	func PrepareCrashSignalHandlers() {	COMMENT
LOW	transport/v2raygrpc/credentials/syscallconn.go	21	import (	COMMENT
LOW	adapter/router.go	141	// with a predicate other than destination ip_cidr / ip_set, so it can contribute	COMMENT
LOW	common/schannel/doc.go	1	// Package schannel wraps the Windows Schannel security provider (SSPI) for	COMMENT
LOW	common/certificate/anchors_darwin.h	1	#ifndef BOX_CERTIFICATE_ANCHORS_DARWIN_H	COMMENT
LOW	common/srs/compat_test.go	61	type oldIPRangeData struct {	COMMENT
LOW	common/tls/apple_client_platform_darwin.m	1	#import "apple_client_platform_darwin.h"	COMMENT
LOW	common/ktls/ktls_cipher_suites_linux.go	41	TLS_CIPHER_CHACHA20_POLY1305_IV_SIZE kernelCryptoCipherType = 12	COMMENT
LOW	common/ktls/ktls_cipher_suites_linux.go	141	crypto.cipher_type = TLS_CIPHER_CHACHA20_POLY1305	COMMENT
LOW	common/ktls/ktls_cipher_suites_linux.go	161		COMMENT
LOW	common/ktls/ktls_cipher_suites_linux.go	261	crypto.version = *hc.Version	COMMENT
LOW	common/ktls/ktls_cipher_suites_linux.go	301	//	COMMENT
LOW	constant/goos/goos.go	1	// Copyright 2015 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.	COMMENT
LOW	.github/setup_go_for_macos1013.sh	41	# Rebuild is not needed: we build with CGO_ENABLED=1, so Apple's external	COMMENT
LOW	service/powerreport/device_darwin.m	1	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>	COMMENT
LOW	dns/transport/local/local_darwin.go	41	// The mDNSResponder daemon speaks an undocumented binary protocol over a	COMMENT

AI Slop Vocabulary4 hits · 12 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	common/certificate/mozilla.go	581	// Certainly Root E1	COMMENT
MEDIUM	common/certificate/mozilla.go	596	// Certainly Root R1	COMMENT
MEDIUM	common/certificate/chrome.go	461	// CN=Certainly Root R1; O=Certainly; C=US	COMMENT
MEDIUM	common/certificate/chrome.go	494	// CN=Certainly Root E1; O=Certainly; C=US	COMMENT

Fake / Example Data10 hits · 10 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	docs/migration.zh.md	88	"email": "admin@example.com"	CODE
LOW	docs/migration.zh.md	108	"email": "admin@example.com"	CODE
LOW	docs/migration.zh.md	125	"email": "admin@example.com"	CODE
LOW	docs/migration.md	90	"email": "admin@example.com"	CODE
LOW	docs/migration.md	110	"email": "admin@example.com"	CODE
LOW	docs/migration.md	127	"email": "admin@example.com"	CODE
LOW	docs/manual/proxy-protocol/trojan.md	82	"email": "admin@example.org"	CODE
LOW	docs/manual/proxy-protocol/trojan.md	113	"email": "admin@example.org",	CODE
LOW	docs/manual/proxy-protocol/hysteria2.md	97	"email": "admin@example.org"	CODE
LOW	docs/manual/proxy-protocol/hysteria2.md	127	"email": "admin@example.org",	CODE

Verbosity Indicators3 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	experimental/libbox/signal_handler_darwin.go	25	// Step 1: PLCrashReporter writes .plcrash, resets all handlers to SIG_DFL,	COMMENT
LOW⚡	experimental/libbox/signal_handler_darwin.go	40	// Step 2: Restore Go's handler via sigaction (overwrites PLCrashReporter's SIG_DFL).	COMMENT
LOW⚡	experimental/libbox/signal_handler_darwin.go	47	// Step 3: Return. The kernel restores the original ucontext and re-executes	COMMENT

Structural Annotation Overuse3 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	experimental/libbox/signal_handler_darwin.go	25	// Step 1: PLCrashReporter writes .plcrash, resets all handlers to SIG_DFL,	COMMENT
LOW⚡	experimental/libbox/signal_handler_darwin.go	40	// Step 2: Restore Go's handler via sigaction (overwrites PLCrashReporter's SIG_DFL).	COMMENT
LOW⚡	experimental/libbox/signal_handler_darwin.go	47	// Step 3: Return. The kernel restores the original ucontext and re-executes	COMMENT

Redundant / Tautological Comments1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	release/completions/sing-box.zsh	96	# Check if this is an activeHelp statement (i.e., prefixed with $activeHelpMarker)	COMMENT

TODO Padding1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	service/resolved/resolve1.go	579	// TODO: implement RegisterService, UnregisterService	COMMENT