AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

aquaproj/aqua

Name: aquaproj/aqua — 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).

Declarative CLI Version manager written in Go. Support Lazy Install, Registry, and continuous update with Renovate. CLI version is switched seamlessly

0.6 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for aquaproj/aqua, a Go project with 1,878 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 84,257 lines of code across 740 source files, recording 47 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.6 (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.

0.6

Adjusted Signal

0.6

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-31

Last Push

1.9K

Stars

Language

84.3K

Lines of Code

740

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 3.1/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 47 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 0.0/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.2/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 47 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 4LOW 43

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 47 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 Block42 hits · 42 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	.goreleaser.yml	81	# Default: v1	COMMENT
LOW	.goreleaser.yml	121		COMMENT
LOW	.goreleaser.yml	141	#	COMMENT
LOW	.goreleaser.yml	161	#	COMMENT
LOW	tests/cargo/aqua.yaml	1	---	COMMENT
LOW	tests/unarchive/aqua.yaml	1	---	COMMENT
LOW	tests/version_expr_file/aqua.yaml	1	---	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/install-registry/doc.go	1	// Package registry manages registry installation and caching for aqua.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/versiongetter/forge/forge.go	1	// Package forge is what a forge instance's releases are read as.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/versiongetter/forge/gitlab/client.go	1	// Package gitlab reads the releases a GitLab instance publishes.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/versiongetter/forge/gitlab/client_internal_test.go	201	// "package: RPM riscv64" and is served at packages/rpm/glab.rpm.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/asset/generate.go	41	}	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/asset/spelling.go	1	package asset	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/doc.go	1	// Package config handles aqua configuration management.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/registry/error.go	21	// errHostRequired is returned when a package on a forge instance lacks the instance it	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/registry/package_info.go	41	// PkgInfoTypeCargo installs Rust packages from crates.io using cargo.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/registry/package_info.go	61	)	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/registry/package_info.go	941	// in subgroups is gitlab-org/security/cli, and every segment of it is one of these.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/registry/package_info.go	961	// hostOnly says whether a value is a host name, and nothing else.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/registry/github_cli.go	1	package registry	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/registry/github_cli.go	21	// SignerWorkflow3 is the deprecated field name for signer workflow.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/registry/cosign.go	21	// Key specifies where to download the public key file.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/registry/packslip.go	1	package registry	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/config/registry/packslip.go	21	// PublicKey is the public key of a key-signed release, as its base64 line.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/installpackage/download.go	161	if err := is.verifyChecksumWrap(ctx, logger, param, bodyFile); err != nil {	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/ghattestation/signer_workflow.go	1	package ghattestation	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/runtime/libc_linux.go	41	//	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/cli/doc.go	1	// Package cli provides the command-line interface for aqua.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/controller/doc.go	1	// Package controller contains the main business logic controllers for aqua operations.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/controller/generate-registry/generate.go	301		COMMENT
LOW	pkg/controller/initpolicy/init.go	21	# - name: aqua-registry	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/controller/initcmd/init.go	21	# enabled: true	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/controller/generate/generate.go	21	// Generate searches packages in registries and outputs the configuration to standard output.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/unarchive/archives.go	41	// staging directory outside the walk's output.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/unarchive/archives.go	161	// writes nothing outside the extraction directory, and such symlinks are common	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/unarchive/archives.go	321	// Only the sparse members recorded during the walk are extracted; every other	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/unarchive/archives.go	381	// of an extraction as shell globs, so an entry named "*" would make it extract	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/github/doc.go	1	// Package github provides GitHub API client integration for aqua.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/download/forge.go	21	)	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/download/doc.go	1	// Package download implements package download functionality for aqua.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/checksum/doc.go	1	// Package checksum provides checksum validation and management for aqua.	COMMENT
LOW	pkg/domain/doc.go	1	// Package domain defines the core domain models and types for aqua.	COMMENT

Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary3 hits · 7 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	AGENTS.md	243	# Run wire for dependency injection	COMMENT
MEDIUM	website/docs/index.md	247	To send a pull request you have to write Registry Configuration, but aqua provides [the tool](https://github.com/aquapro	CODE
MEDIUM	website/docs/reference/security/checksum.md	126	[aqua gr](/docs/develop-registry#scaffold-registry-configuration) scaffolds the checksum configuration too.	CODE

Self-Referential Comments1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	pkg/cli/initcmd/command.go	54	$ aqua init -d # Create a directory "aqua" and create "aqua/aqua.yaml"	CODE

Verbosity Indicators1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	pkg/config/registry/version_override_test.go	393	// For testing the specific behavior, we need to check if it's the same instance or a copy	COMMENT