TideDra/zotero-arxiv-daily

74.3

Adjusted Score

74.3

Raw Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-08-01

Last Push

5.8K

Stars

Python

Language

3.5K

Lines of Code

Files

134

Pattern Hits

2026-08-02

Scan Date

0.04

HC Hit Rate

What These Metrics Mean

Adjusted Score: Primary synthetic code indicator. Raw score normalised per 1,000 lines of code and multiplied by the temporal discount factor. This is the definitive comparative metric — use it to rank repositories by AI authorship density.
Raw Score: The unmodified sum of all severity-weighted, context-multiplied pattern match scores before temporal discounting. Reflects the absolute signal strength independent of when the repository was last active.
Time Factor: The temporal discount multiplier (0–100%) applied to the raw score. Repositories last updated before ChatGPT's launch (Nov 2022) receive a 5% factor. Full signal is only assigned to repositories active in the post-adoption era (Jan 2024+).
Pattern Hits: Total count of individual pattern matches across all files and categories. A high hit count with a low score may indicate a very large codebase with isolated AI snippets; a low count with a high score indicates dense, concentrated AI signatures.
HC Hit Rate: High+Critical pattern hits per file, averaged across the repository. This orthogonal signal catches repositories where a few files are densely packed with high-severity AI tells — a strong indicator even when the normalised score appears moderate due to codebase size.
Lines of Code / Files: Total lines and files analysed. The scanner examines 94 file extensions. These denominators are used to normalise the score, enabling fair comparison between repositories of vastly different sizes.

Score History

Longitudinal tracking requires multiple scan runs. Once this repository is re-scanned after new commits land, this chart will visualise how the synthetic code signal evolves over time — enabling you to detect whether AI authorship is growing, stabilising, or being actively corrected by human engineers.

No multi-scan history yet — run the scanner again to build trend data.

Severity Breakdown

Classifies detected patterns by their diagnostic confidence and structural impact. CRITICAL patterns (coefficient 10) represent definitive synthetic signatures — hallucinated imports, explicit LLM attribution metadata — virtually never produced by human authors. HIGH (5) indicates strong structural tells such as cross-file repetition or cross-linguistic idioms. MEDIUM (2) covers recognisable conversational padding and AI-specific vocabulary. LOW (1) captures subtle indicators like tautological comments and generic boilerplate that require density to carry independent signal.

CRITICAL 0HIGH 2MEDIUM 42LOW 90

Directory Score Breakdown

This horizontal bar chart decomposes the repository's raw synthetic code score by top-level directory, allowing you to pinpoint precisely which modules or components carry the highest AI authorship density. Directories with disproportionately high scores relative to their size warrant targeted manual review: concentrated AI signatures often trace back to mass-generated configuration layers, auto-ported test suites, LLM-scaffolded boilerplate classes, or entire subsystems authored under heavy copilot assistance. Use this view to prioritise your human code-review effort.

Pattern Findings

The scanner identified 134 distinct pattern matches across 7 syntactic categories. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a statistically significant AI authorship indicator. 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 diagnostic confidence level (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 weight because LLMs systematically over-annotate. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier as dense clusters constitute far stronger evidence of synthetic authorship than isolated hits.

Decorative Section Separators32 hits · 117 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	tests/test_utils.py	13	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/test_utils.py	15	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_utils.py	119	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_utils.py	121	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/test_utils.py	189	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/test_utils.py	191	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	16	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	18	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	58	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	60	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/canned_responses.py	9	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/canned_responses.py	11	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/canned_responses.py	66	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/canned_responses.py	68	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/canned_responses.py	127	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/canned_responses.py	129	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/canned_responses.py	162	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/canned_responses.py	164	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/canned_responses.py	196	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/canned_responses.py	198	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_executor.py	12	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_executor.py	14	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_executor.py	48	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_executor.py	50	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_executor.py	102	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/test_executor.py	104	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/test_executor.py	146	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/test_executor.py	148	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/retriever/test_base_retriever.py	13	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tests/retriever/test_base_retriever.py	15	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/retriever/test_base_retriever.py	73	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	tests/retriever/test_base_retriever.py	75	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers66 hits · 81 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	tests/test_utils.py	40	def test_wildcard_question_mark(self):	CODE
LOW	tests/test_utils.py	92	def test_special_glob_characters(self):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_utils.py	124	def test_send_email_starttls_success(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/test_utils.py	136	def test_send_email_falls_back_to_ssl(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/test_utils.py	157	def test_send_email_falls_back_to_plain(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_utils.py	213	def test_extract_tex_single_file(make_tar):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_utils.py	220	def test_extract_tex_with_input_resolution(make_tar):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_utils.py	230	def test_extract_tex_no_tex_files(make_tar):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_utils.py	236	def test_extract_tex_not_a_tar(tmp_path):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_utils.py	243	def test_extract_tex_multiple_tex_no_bbl(make_tar):	CODE
LOW	tests/test_utils.py	264	def test_extract_tex_multiple_document_blocks_no_title(make_tar):	CODE
LOW	tests/test_utils.py	287	def test_empty_query_returns_first(self):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	21	def test_tldr_returns_response(llm_params):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	29	def test_tldr_without_abstract_or_fulltext(llm_params):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	36	def test_tldr_falls_back_to_abstract_on_error(llm_params):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	51	def test_tldr_truncates_long_prompt(llm_params):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	63	def test_affiliations_returns_parsed_list(llm_params):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	72	def test_affiliations_none_without_fulltext(llm_params):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	79	def test_affiliations_deduplicates(llm_params):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_protocol.py	89	def test_affiliations_malformed_llm_output(llm_params):	CODE
LOW	tests/test_protocol.py	113	def test_affiliations_error_returns_none(llm_params):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_construct_email.py	7	def test_render_email_with_papers():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_construct_email.py	15	def test_render_email_empty_list():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_construct_email.py	20	def test_render_email_author_truncation():	CODE
LOW	tests/test_construct_email.py	34	def test_render_email_affiliation_truncation():	CODE
LOW	tests/test_construct_email.py	44	def test_render_email_no_affiliations():	CODE
LOW	tests/test_construct_email.py	55	def test_get_stars_high_score():	CODE
LOW	tests/test_construct_email.py	66	def test_get_block_html_contains_all_fields():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_executor.py	17	def test_normalize_path_patterns_rejects_single_string_for_include_path():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_executor.py	22	def test_normalize_path_patterns_accepts_list_config_for_include_path():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_executor.py	30	def test_normalize_path_patterns_rejects_single_string_for_ignore_path():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_executor.py	35	def test_normalize_path_patterns_accepts_list_config_for_ignore_path():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_executor.py	40	def test_normalize_path_patterns_accepts_empty_list():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_executor.py	44	def test_normalize_path_patterns_accepts_none():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_executor.py	60	def test_filter_corpus_matches_any_path_against_any_pattern():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_executor.py	82	def test_filter_corpus_ignore_path_takes_precedence_over_include_path():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/test_executor.py	92	def test_filter_corpus_no_filters_returns_all():	CODE
LOW	tests/test_executor.py	71	def test_filter_corpus_excludes_papers_matching_ignore_path():	CODE
LOW	tests/test_executor.py	122	def test_fetch_zotero_corpus_paper_with_zero_collections(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/test_executor.py	212	def test_run_no_papers_send_empty_false(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/test_executor.py	248	def test_run_no_papers_send_empty_true(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/test_main.py	20	def test_main_creates_executor_and_runs(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/reranker/test_api_reranker.py	6	def test_api_reranker_similarity_shape(config, patch_openai):	CODE
LOW	tests/reranker/test_api_reranker.py	12	def test_api_reranker_batching(config, patch_openai):	CODE
LOW	tests/reranker/test_base_reranker.py	21	def test_rerank_scores_and_sorts():	CODE
LOW	tests/reranker/test_base_reranker.py	37	def test_rerank_time_decay_weighting():	CODE
LOW	tests/reranker/test_base_reranker.py	58	def test_rerank_single_candidate_single_corpus():	CODE
LOW	tests/reranker/test_base_reranker.py	68	def test_get_reranker_cls_unknown():	CODE
LOW	tests/retriever/test_medrxiv_retriever.py	8	def test_medrxiv_server_attribute(config):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/retriever/test_arxiv_retriever.py	66	def test_run_with_hard_timeout_returns_value():	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/retriever/test_arxiv_retriever.py	73	def test_run_with_hard_timeout_returns_none_on_timeout(monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/retriever/test_arxiv_retriever.py	83	def test_run_with_hard_timeout_returns_none_on_failure(monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/retriever/test_biorxiv_retriever.py	21	def test_biorxiv_empty_response(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/retriever/test_biorxiv_retriever.py	42	def test_biorxiv_convert_to_paper(config):	CODE
LOW	tests/retriever/test_biorxiv_retriever.py	54	def test_biorxiv_requires_category(config):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/retriever/test_base_retriever.py	78	def test_retrieve_papers_skips_conversion_errors(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW⚡	tests/retriever/test_base_retriever.py	87	def test_retrieve_papers_runs_serially(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/retriever/test_base_retriever.py	98	def test_retrieve_papers_skips_none_results(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/retriever/test_base_retriever.py	107	def test_retrieve_papers_empty_raw(config, monkeypatch):	CODE
LOW	tests/retriever/test_base_retriever.py	124	def test_get_retriever_cls_unknown():	CODE
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Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary10 hits · 33 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM⚡	README.md	143	model: jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano # The Hugging Face model name of the local embedding model. Example: jina	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	README.md	145	# The kwargs for the encode method of the local embedding model. Details see [here](https://www.sbert.net/docs/packa	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	README.md	149	key: null # API Key of your embedding model API. Example: sk-xxx	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	README.md	150	base_url: null # API URL of your embedding model API. Example: https://api.openai.com/v1	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	README.md	151	model: null # The model name of the embedding model. Example: text-embedding-3-large	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	config/base.yaml	35	model: jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-text-nano-retrieval # The Hugging Face model name of the local embedding model. Exa	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	config/base.yaml	37	# The kwargs for the encode method of the local embedding model. Details see [here](https://www.sbert.net/docs/packa	COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡	config/base.yaml	41	key: null # API Key of your embedding model API. Example: sk-xxx	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	config/base.yaml	42	base_url: null # API URL of your embedding model API. Example: https://api.openai.com/v1	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	config/base.yaml	43	model: null # The model name of the embedding model. Example: text-embedding-3-large	CODE

Unused Imports13 hits · 11 pts

Severity	File	Line	Context
LOW	tests/test_executor.py	157	CODE
LOW	tests/test_executor.py	185	CODE
LOW	tests/test_executor.py	232	CODE
LOW	tests/test_executor.py	268	CODE
LOW	tests/retriever/test_arxiv_retriever.py	6	CODE
LOW	tests/retriever/test_base_retriever.py	4	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/reranker/__init__.py	1	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/reranker/__init__.py	2	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/reranker/__init__.py	2	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/retriever/__init__.py	1	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/retriever/__init__.py	2	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/retriever/__init__.py	2	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/retriever/__init__.py	2	CODE

Cross-Language Confusion2 hits · 10 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/executor.py	22	f"config.zotero.{config_key} must be a list of glob patterns or null, "	CODE
HIGH	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/executor.py	47	corpus = zot.everything(zot.items(itemType='conferencePaper \|\| journalArticle \|\| preprint'))	CODE

Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping8 hits · 8 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/protocol.py	64	except Exception as e:	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/protocol.py	102	except Exception as e:	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/utils.py	161	except Exception as e:	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/utils.py	165	except Exception as e:	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/retriever/arxiv_retriever.py	40	except Exception as exc:	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/retriever/arxiv_retriever.py	184	except Exception as exc:	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/retriever/biorxiv_retriever.py	26	except Exception as e:	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/retriever/base.py	31	except Exception as exc:	CODE

Deep Nesting3 hits · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Context
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/utils.py	56	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/retriever/arxiv_retriever.py	24	CODE
LOW	src/zotero_arxiv_daily/retriever/arxiv_retriever.py	116	CODE

Analysis Overview

What These Metrics Mean

Score History

Severity Breakdown

Directory Score Breakdown

Pattern Findings