Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)
This report summarizes scanner evidence for aseprite/aseprite, a C++ project with 39,998 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 290,655 lines of code across 1780 source files, recording 1501 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 5.2 (Moderate 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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 1491 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 10 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 1501 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 1501 distinct pattern matches across 7 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 | build.sh | 1 | #! /usr/bin/env bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/config.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/README.md | 121 | #ifdef _WIN64 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/convolution_matrix_filter.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/brightness_contrast_filter.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/hue_saturation_filter.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/hue_saturation_filter.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/convolution_matrix_filter.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/color_curve_filter.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/outline_filter.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/convolution_matrix.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/filter.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/neighboring_pixels.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/median_filter.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/filter_manager.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/filter_manager.h | 61 | // the Filter "getWidth()" times, in each pixel from getSourceAddress(). | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/color_curve.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/color_curve.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/target.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/replace_color_filter.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/invert_color_filter.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/outline_filter.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/replace_color_filter.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/color_curve_filter.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/brightness_contrast_filter.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/filters/median_filter.h | 1 | // Aseprite | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/widget.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/widget.cpp | 21 | #include "os/system.h" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/widget.cpp | 41 | #include "ui/view.h" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/shortcut.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/grid_ui_tests.cpp | 121 | // | 1 | 2 | 10 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/scale.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/theme.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/view_benchmark.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/button.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/ui.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/ui.h | 21 | #include "ui/cursor_type.h" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/ui.h | 41 | #include "ui/manager.h" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/ui.h | 61 | #include "ui/size_hint_event.h" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/int_entry.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/scroll_window.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/style.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/listitem.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/box.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/message.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/style.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/tooltips.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/event.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/widget.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/widget.h | 341 | // =============================================================== | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/widget.h | 361 | // the widget, the widget will lose the HAS_MOUSE flag. If some | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/separator.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/combobox.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/window.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/move_region.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/listbox.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/manager.h | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/manager.h | 121 | // highly probable that the "to" widget will recapture the mouse | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/popup_window.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/ui/menu.cpp | 1 | // Aseprite UI Library | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRITICAL | .github/workflows/lint_commit.yml | 43 | const opts = github.rest.pulls.listCommits.endpoint.merge({ | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | src/app/widget_loader.cpp | 228 | if (elem->Attribute("placeholder")) | CODE |
| LOW | src/app/widget_loader.cpp | 229 | ((Entry*)widget)->setPlaceholder(m_xmlTranslator(elem, "placeholder")); | CODE |
| LOW | src/app/widget_loader.cpp | 245 | if (elem->Attribute("placeholder")) | CODE |
| LOW | src/app/widget_loader.cpp | 246 | ((TextEdit*)widget)->setPlaceholder(m_xmlTranslator(elem, "placeholder")); | CODE |
| LOW | src/app/widget_loader.cpp | 527 | if (elem->Attribute("placeholder")) | CODE |
| LOW | src/app/widget_loader.cpp | 528 | searchEntry->setPlaceholder(m_xmlTranslator(elem, "placeholder")); | CODE |
| LOW | src/app/file/file_tests.cpp | 224 | { "name", std::string("John Doe") }, | CODE |
| LOW | src/app/file/file_tests.cpp | 251 | { "name", std::string("John Doe") }, | CODE |
| LOW | src/app/script/dialog_class.cpp | 910 | type = lua_getfield(L, 2, "placeholder"); | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | build.sh | 132 | # Create the directory to store the configuration. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | tests/cli/file-formats.sh | 4 | # Create a simple image and save it in all formats using scripts | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | CONTRIBUTING.md | 102 | not going to merge code generated by AI or co-authored by AI. | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | build.sh | 4 | # Usage: | COMMENT |
| LOW | misc/update-copyright.sh | 3 | # Usage: | COMMENT |
| LOW | misc/commit-clang-tidy.sh | 3 | # Usage: | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | src/app/util/cel_ops.cpp | 708 | // Common case: Re-utilize the same tile in Auto mode. | COMMENT |