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StevenBlack/hosts

Name: StevenBlack/hosts — Python Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
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Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

1.7 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for StevenBlack/hosts, a Python project with 31,349 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 29,497 lines of code across 121 source files, recording 46 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.7 (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.

1.7

Adjusted Signal

1.7

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-29

Last Push

31.3K

Stars

Python

Language

29.5K

Lines of Code

121

Files

Pattern Hits

2026-10-31

Scan Date

0.01

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 6.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 38 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.2/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 1 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 6.4/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 37 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 9.2/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 46 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 3LOW 42

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 46 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.

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers30 hits · 28 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW⚡	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1627	def test_multiple_space_as_separator(self):	CODE
LOW⚡	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1637	def test_multiple_tabs_as_separator(self):	CODE
LOW⚡	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1647	def test_line_with_comment_at_the_end(self):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	221	def test_no_freshen_no_new_file(self):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	267	def test_no_freshen_fail_new_file(self, mock_open):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	512	def test_only_common_exclusions(self, mock_gather, mock_exclude, _):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	534	def test_mixture_gatherexclusions(self, mock_gather, mock_exclude, _):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	573	def test_invalid_exclude_domain(self):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	584	def test_valid_exclude_domain(self):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	721	def test_update_only_extensions(self, mock_join_robust, *_):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	745	def test_update_both_pathways(self, mock_join_robust, *_):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	815	def test_sources_fail_succeed(self, mock_get, mock_write, *_):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1012	def test_strip_raw_with_comment(self):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1072	def test_basic_include_static_hosts(self):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1099	def test_basic_include_static_hosts_linux(self):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1340	def test_set_no_unified_hosts(self):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1408	def test_move_hosts_posix_fail(self, *_):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1507	def test_flush_posix_fail_then_succeed(self, *_):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1544	def test_remove_hosts_file_exists(self):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1560	def test_remove_hosts_file_backup(self, _):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1748	def test_connect_unknown_domain(self):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	2094	def test_print_success_no_support(self, _):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	2103	def test_print_success_support(self, _):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	2118	def test_print_failure_no_support(self, _):	CODE
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	2127	def test_print_failure_support(self, _):	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	430	def prompt_for_flush_dns_cache(flushcache, promptflush):	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	521	def display_exclusion_options(commonexclusions, exclusionpattern, exclusionregexes):	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	1407	def move_hosts_file_into_place(finalfile):	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	1806	def is_valid_user_provided_domain_format(domain):	STRING
LOW	makeHosts.py	56	def recursively_loop_extensions(extension, extensions, current_extensions):	CODE

Deep Nesting6 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Context
LOW	updateReadme.py	20	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	100	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	916	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	1407	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	1471	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	1599	CODE

Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping6 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	789	except Exception:	CODE
MEDIUM	updateHostsFile.py	790	print("Error in updating source: ", updateurl)	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	954	except Exception as e:	CODE
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	1429	except Exception:	STRING
LOW	updateHostsFile.py	1450	except Exception:	STRING
MEDIUM	updateHostsFile.py	1725	print("Error retrieving data from {}".format(url))	STRING

Empty Error Handlers1 hit · 5 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	updateHostsFile.py	1671	except IndexError:	CODE

Self-Referential Comments1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	updateHostsFile.py	371	# Create a hosts file if it doesn't exist.	COMMENT

TODO Padding1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	testUpdateHostsFile.py	1369	def test_move_hosts_no_name(self, _): # TODO: Create test which tries to move actual file	CODE

Unused Imports1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	makeHosts.py	8		CODE