Liquid markup language. Safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps.
This report summarizes scanner evidence for Shopify/liquid, a Ruby project with 11,904 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 22,653 lines of code across 166 source files, recording 93 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 4.4 (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.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 75 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 18 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 11 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 93 finding(s).
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.
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.
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.
The scanner identified 93 distinct pattern matches across 4 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.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | .rubocop_todo.yml | 1 | # This configuration was generated by | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/unit/condition_unit_test.rb | 201 | # | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/drop.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/profiler.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/profiler.rb | 21 | # inside of <tt>{% include %}</tt> tags. | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/file_system.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/file_system.rb | 21 | end | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/template.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/template.rb | 121 | end | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/environment.rb | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | lib/liquid/variable.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/context.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tablerowloop_drop.rb | 21 | # @liquid_return [number] | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tablerowloop_drop.rb | 61 | # @liquid_summary | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 61 | # @liquid_syntax variable | size | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 81 | # @liquid_summary | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 101 | # @liquid_type filter | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 121 | end | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 141 | # @liquid_summary | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 181 | # @liquid_type filter | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 261 | # @liquid_summary | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 321 | # @liquid_summary | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 341 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 381 | # @liquid_public_docs | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 461 | # @liquid_type filter | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 481 | # @liquid_return [boolean] | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 501 | # @liquid_category array | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 541 | # @liquid_summary | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 601 | # @liquid_summary | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 661 | # @liquid_summary | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 681 | # @liquid_type filter | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 721 | string + input | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 741 | # @liquid_description | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 761 | # %U - Week number of the current year, | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 781 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 801 | # @liquid_summary | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 821 | end | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 841 | def minus(input, operand) | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 901 | # @liquid_summary | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 941 | # @liquid_category math | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb | 961 | # - [`false`](/docs/api/liquid/basics#truthy-and-falsy) | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/forloop_drop.rb | 21 | # @liquid_return [number] | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/self_drop.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/table_row.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/echo.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/if.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/break.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/for.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/assign.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/doc.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/case.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/include.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/capture.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/decrement.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/unless.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/increment.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/comment.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/raw.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tags/render.rb | 1 | # frozen_string_literal: true | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 556 | <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore | CODE |
| LOW | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 556 | <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore | CODE |
| LOW | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 593 | <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore | CODE |
| LOW | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 593 | <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 858 | content: <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 858 | content: <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 867 | content: <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 867 | content: <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 884 | content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 884 | content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 896 | content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 896 | content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 920 | content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 920 | content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 937 | content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 937 | content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 943 | content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 943 | content: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | test/test_helper.rb | 58 | def assert_match_syntax_error(match, template, error_mode: nil) | CODE |
| LOW | test/unit/condition_unit_test.rb | 382 | def assert_evaluates_argument_error(left, op, right) | CODE |
| LOW | lib/liquid/parser_switching.rb | 13 | def strict_parse_with_error_mode_fallback(markup) | CODE |
| LOW | lib/liquid/parser_switching.rb | 32 | def parse_with_selected_parser(markup) | CODE |
| LOW | lib/liquid/parser_switching.rb | 66 | def strict_parse_with_error_context(markup) | CODE |
| LOW | lib/liquid/tokenizer.rb | 156 | def next_tag_token_with_start(start) | CODE |
| LOW | lib/liquid/variable.rb | 140 | def lax_parse_filter_expressions(filter_name, unparsed_args) | CODE |
| LOW | lib/liquid/variable.rb | 196 | def evaluate_filter_expressions(context, filter_args, filter_kwargs) | CODE |
| LOW | lib/liquid/context.rb | 271 | def try_variable_find_in_environments(key, raise_on_not_found:) | CODE |
| LOW | lib/liquid/block_body.rb | 266 | def raise_missing_tag_terminator(token, parse_context) | CODE |
| LOW | lib/liquid/block_body.rb | 271 | def raise_missing_variable_terminator(token, parse_context) | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | lib/liquid/tags/echo.rb | 12 | # bracket method, you can use the `echo` tag inside [`liquid` tags](/docs/api/liquid/tags/liquid). | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | lib/liquid/tags/unless.rb | 14 | # > Similar to the [`if` tag](/docs/api/liquid/tags/if), you can use `elsif` to add more conditions to an `unless` t | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | performance/shopify/vision.database.yml | 879 | content: <p><strong>Welcome to your Shopify store! The jaded Pixel crew is really glad you decided to take Shopi | CODE |