AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

alecthomas/chroma

Name: alecthomas/chroma — Go Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
Creator: AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

A general purpose syntax highlighter in pure Go

0.2 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for alecthomas/chroma, a Go project with 5,073 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 93,467 lines of code across 487 source files, recording 23 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.2 (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.

0.2

Adjusted Signal

0.2

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-31

Last Push

5.1K

Stars

Language

93.5K

Lines of Code

487

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 0.9/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 17 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.3/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 5 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.1/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 1 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 1.2/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 23 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 0LOW 23

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 23 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.

Over-Commented Block14 hits · 14 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	types.go	1	package chroma	COMMENT
LOW	xml.go	21	// [<$EMITTER ...>]	COMMENT
LOW	xml.go	41	// <rule pattern="\"">	COMMENT
LOW	emitters.go	81	} else {	COMMENT
LOW	emitters.go	101	// Example:	COMMENT
LOW	lexer.go	41	// Regex does not match across lines ($ matches EOL).	COMMENT
LOW	doc.go	1	// Package chroma takes source code and other structured text and converts it into syntax highlighted HTML, ANSI-	COMMENT
LOW	quick/example_test.go	21	// <style type="text/css">	COMMENT
LOW	quick/example_test.go	41	// /* NameConstant */ .chroma .no { color: #66d9ef }	COMMENT
LOW	quick/example_test.go	61	// /* LiteralStringRegex */ .chroma .sr { color: #e6db74 }	COMMENT
LOW	quick/example_test.go	81	// /* GenericDeleted */ .chroma .gd { color: #f92672 }	COMMENT
LOW	formatters/tty_indexed.go	261	}	COMMENT
LOW	formatters/svg/font_liberation_mono.go	1	// Digitized data copyright (c) 2010 Google Corporation	COMMENT
LOW	formatters/svg/font_liberation_mono.go	21	// "Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the copyright statement(s).	COMMENT

Fake / Example Data5 hits · 5 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	lexers/caddyfile.go	146	Include("placeholder"),	CODE
LOW	lexers/caddyfile.go	152	Include("placeholder"),	CODE
LOW	lexers/caddyfile.go	171	"placeholder": {	CODE
LOW	lexers/caddyfile.go	186	Include("placeholder"),	CODE
LOW	lexers/caddyfile.go	242	Include("placeholder"),	CODE

Deep Nesting3 hits · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Context
LOW	_tools/pygments2chroma_xml.py	77	CODE
LOW	_tools/pygments2chroma_xml.py	111	CODE
LOW	_tools/pygments2chroma_xml.py	131	CODE

Modern Structural Boilerplate1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	_tools/format_supported_langs.py	67	def update_file(path: str, markdown: str) -> None:	CODE