Algorithms and Data Structures implemented in Go for beginners, following best practices.
This report summarizes scanner evidence for TheAlgorithms/Go, a Go project with 18,243 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 34,383 lines of code across 513 source files, recording 87 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.7 (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.
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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 71 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 16 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 87 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 87 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 | CONTRIBUTING.md | 81 | // description containing links, references, | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 1 | package bom | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 21 | // log.Fatal("Not enough arguments. Two string arguments separated by spaces are required!") | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 41 | // if err != nil { | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 61 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 81 | // prettyPrint(current, j, n, pos, t, oracle) | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 101 | // fmt.Printf("\n\nElapsed %f secs\n", elapsed.Seconds()) | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 121 | // } | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 141 | // createTransition(k, o, m+1, oracle) | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 161 | // } | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 181 | // // Returns ending state for transition σ(fromState,overChar), -1 if there is none. | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 201 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | strings/bom/bom.go | 221 | // } | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/genetic/genetic.go | 21 | // Value shows how close this species to the desired target, where 1 means, | COMMENT |
| LOW | strings/guid/guid.go | 1 | // guid.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | dynamic/abbreviation.go | 1 | // File: abbreviation.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | dynamic/binomialcoefficient.go | 1 | // binomialcoefficient.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | dynamic/traprainwater.go | 1 | // filename: traprainwater.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | sort/simplesort.go | 1 | // simplesort.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | graph/kosaraju.go | 1 | // kosaraju.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | graph/depthfirstsearch.go | 61 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | graph/depthfirstsearch.go | 81 | // start := 1 | COMMENT |
| LOW | graph/kahn.go | 1 | // Kahn's algorithm computes a topological ordering of a directed acyclic graph (DAG). | COMMENT |
| LOW | graph/unionfind.go | 1 | // Union Find Algorithm or Dynamic Connectivity algorithm, often implemented with the help | COMMENT |
| LOW | graph/coloring/doc.go | 1 | // Package coloring provides implementation of different graph coloring | COMMENT |
| LOW | other/nested/nestedbrackets.go | 1 | // Package nested provides functions for testing | COMMENT |
| LOW | cipher/xor/xor.go | 1 | // Package xor is an encryption algorithm that operates the exclusive disjunction(XOR) | COMMENT |
| LOW | cipher/rsa/rsa.go | 1 | // rsa.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/pronicnumber.go | 1 | // pronicnumber.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/binomialcoefficient.go | 1 | // binomialcoefficient.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/liouville.go | 1 | // liouville.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/aliquotsum.go | 1 | // aliquotsum.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/perfectnumber.go | 1 | // perfectnumber.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/mobius.go | 1 | // mobius.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/pascal/pascaltriangle.go | 1 | // pascaltriangle.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/binary/sqrt.go | 1 | // sqrt.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/binary/arithmeticmean.go | 1 | // arithmeticmean.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/binary/abs.go | 1 | // abs.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/binary/checkisnumberpoweroftwo.go | 1 | // checkisnumberpoweroftwo.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/binary/reversebits.go | 1 | // reversebits.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/matrix/strassenmatrixmultiply.go | 1 | // filename: strassenmatrixmultiply.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/prime/twin.go | 1 | // twin.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/prime/millerrabintest.go | 1 | // This file implements two versions of the Miller-Rabin primality test. | COMMENT |
| LOW | math/prime/millerrabintest.go | 141 | // witnesses 2, 3, and 5 can determine the | COMMENT |
| LOW | search/interpolation.go | 1 | package search | COMMENT |
| LOW | search/jump.go | 1 | // jump.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | sqrt/sqrtdecomposition.go | 1 | // Package sqrt contains algorithms and data structures that contains a √n in their complexity | COMMENT |
| LOW | compression/huffmancoding.go | 1 | // huffman.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | conversion/base64.go | 1 | // base64.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | conversion/rgbhex.go | 1 | // rgbhex.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | conversion/rgbhex.go | 21 | // 00000000 00000000 <11011011> = | COMMENT |
| LOW | conversion/rgbhex.go | 41 | // RGBToHEX does exactly the opposite of HEXToRGB: | COMMENT |
| LOW | conversion/inttoroman.go | 21 | // IntToRoman converts an integer value to a roman numeral string. An error is | COMMENT |
| LOW | checksum/crc8.go | 1 | // crc8.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | structure/doc.go | 1 | // Package structure is a subpackage that is dedicated to | COMMENT |
| LOW | structure/circularqueue/circularqueuearray.go | 1 | // circularqueuearray.go | COMMENT |
| LOW | structure/tree/btree.go | 201 | node.keys[j] = node.keys[j+1] | COMMENT |
| LOW | structure/tree/btree.go | 261 | // Case 2: key exists in a non-leaf node | COMMENT |
| LOW | structure/tree/btree.go | 301 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | structure/linkedlist/doubly.go | 1 | package linkedlist | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | hashing/sha256/sha256_test.go | 18 | {"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna | CODE |
| LOW | hashing/sha256/sha256_test.go | 18 | {"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna | CODE |
| LOW | hashing/sha256/sha256_test.go | 39 | {"Lorem ipsum", "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore e | CODE |
| LOW | hashing/sha256/sha256_test.go | 39 | {"Lorem ipsum", "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore e | CODE |
| LOW | compression/huffmancoding_test.go | 36 | `Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, | CODE |
| LOW | compression/huffmancoding_test.go | 36 | `Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, | CODE |
| LOW | conversion/base64_test.go | 15 | {"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna | CODE |
| LOW | conversion/base64_test.go | 15 | {"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna | CODE |
| LOW | conversion/base64_test.go | 37 | {"Lorem ipsum", "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore e | CODE |
| LOW | conversion/base64_test.go | 37 | {"Lorem ipsum", "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore e | CODE |
| LOW | conversion/base64_test.go | 59 | {"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna | CODE |
| LOW | conversion/base64_test.go | 59 | {"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna | CODE |
| LOW | conversion/base64_test.go | 81 | {"Lorem ipsum", "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore e | CODE |
| LOW | conversion/base64_test.go | 81 | {"Lorem ipsum", "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore e | CODE |
| LOW | conversion/base64_test.go | 102 | {"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna | CODE |
| LOW | conversion/base64_test.go | 102 | {"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW⚡ | graph/kosaraju.go | 19 | // Step 1: Perform DFS and fill stack based on finish times. | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | graph/kosaraju.go | 26 | // Step 2: Create a transposed graph. | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | graph/kosaraju.go | 29 | // Step 3: Perform DFS on the transposed graph in the order defined by the stack. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW⚡ | graph/kosaraju.go | 19 | // Step 1: Perform DFS and fill stack based on finish times. | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | graph/kosaraju.go | 26 | // Step 2: Create a transposed graph. | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | graph/kosaraju.go | 29 | // Step 3: Perform DFS on the transposed graph in the order defined by the stack. | COMMENT |