AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

a16z-infra/ai-town

Name: a16z-infra/ai-town — TypeScript 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).

A MIT-licensed, deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI town - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.

0.7 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for a16z-infra/ai-town, a TypeScript project with 10,730 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 33,718 lines of code across 153 source files, recording 19 pattern matches distributed across 3 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.7 (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.

0.7

Adjusted Signal

0.7

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-08-26

Last Push

10.7K

Stars

TypeScript

Language

33.7K

Lines of Code

153

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 3.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 19 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.0/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 1.3/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 9 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.4/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 19 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 2LOW 17

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 19 distinct pattern matches across 3 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 Identifiers9 hits · 9 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	convex/init.ts	42	async function getOrCreateDefaultWorld(ctx: MutationCtx) {	CODE
LOW	convex/util/FastIntegerCompression.ts	42	export function computeCompressedSizeInBytes(input: number[]) {	CODE
LOW	convex/util/FastIntegerCompression.ts	53	export function computeCompressedSizeInBytesSigned(input: number[]) {	CODE
LOW	convex/util/llm.ts	9	export function detectMismatchedLLMProvider() {	CODE
LOW	convex/agent/conversation.ts	80	export async function continueConversationMessage(	CODE
LOW	convex/agent/conversation.ts	204	function previousConversationPrompt(	CODE
LOW	convex/agent/conversation.ts	221	function untrustedMemoryInstructions(memories: Array<{ description: string }>): string[] {	CODE
LOW	src/editor/le.js	402	function loadAnimatedSpritesFromModule(mod){	CODE
LOW	src/editor/se.js	893	function onLevelCreateAnimatedSprite(row) {	CODE

Over-Commented Block8 hits · 8 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	convex/util/llm.ts	541	// * The name of the function to be called. Must be a-z, A-Z, 0-9, or	COMMENT
LOW	convex/engine/historicalObject.ts	41	// \|	COMMENT
LOW	convex/engine/historicalObject.ts	181	// We encode each field's history with a few layered forms of	COMMENT
LOW	convex/engine/historicalObject.ts	201	// [ 0 0 0 useRLE? ]	COMMENT
LOW	src/editor/le.js	1	// --	COMMENT
LOW	src/editor/le.js	21	// - XXX create tilesetpadding for tilesets whos tiles are spaced (e.g. phantasy star II)	COMMENT
LOW	src/editor/seconfig.js	1	//export const DEFAULTTILESETPATH = "./spritesheets/women.png";	COMMENT
LOW	src/editor/se.js	1	// --	COMMENT

Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary2 hits · 5 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	README.md	189	`npx convex env set OLLAMA_MODEL # model`. If you want to edit the embedding model:	CODE
MEDIUM	README.md	252	### Note on changing the LLM provider or embedding model:	COMMENT