AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

avwo/whistle

Name: avwo/whistle — JavaScript 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).

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2.0 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for avwo/whistle, a JavaScript project with 15,764 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 131,370 lines of code across 854 source files, recording 39 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.0 (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.

2.0

Adjusted Signal

2.0

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-27

Last Push

15.8K

Stars

JavaScript

Language

131.4K

Lines of Code

854

Files

Pattern Hits

2026-10-31

Scan Date

0.02

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 0.7/100 · LOW

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

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 8.9/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 20 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.2/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 6 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 8.0/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 39 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 20HIGH 0MEDIUM 0LOW 19

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 39 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.

Hallucination Indicators20 hits · 245 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
CRITICAL	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/req-data.js	1316	this.refs.content.refs.list.forceUpdateGrid();	CODE
CRITICAL	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/req-data.js	1464	this.refs.content.refs.list.scrollToRow(target);	CODE
CRITICAL	test/units/https.test.js	101	JSON.parse(data.body).a.b.c.should.be.equal('streamUtils.readJson');	CODE
CRITICAL	test/units/https.test.js	115	JSON.parse(data.body).a.b.c.should.be.equal('streamUtils.readJson');	CODE
CRITICAL	test/units/https.test.js	130	JSON.parse(data.body).a.b.c.should.be.equal('streamUtils.readJson');	CODE
CRITICAL	test/units/https.test.js	151	data.type.a.b.c.should.be.equal('readJson');	CODE
CRITICAL	test/units/https.test.js	163	data.type.a.b.c.should.be.equal('resJson');	CODE
CRITICAL	test/units/https.test.js	164	JSON.parse(data.body).a.b.c.should.be.equal('reqJson');	CODE
CRITICAL	test/units/rule.test.js	45	// data.headers.host.should.not.equal('host.test.whistlejs.com');	COMMENT
CRITICAL	test/units/rule.test.js	56	// data.headers.host.should.not.equal('host.test.whistlejs.com');	COMMENT
CRITICAL	test/units/rule.test.js	67	// data.headers.host.should.not.equal('host.test.whistlejs.com');	COMMENT
CRITICAL	test/units/reqCookies.test.js	5	data.headers.cookie.should.be.equal('test=abc');	CODE
CRITICAL⚡	test/units/delete.test.js	5	data.headers.should.not.have.property('x-delete-all');	CODE
CRITICAL⚡	test/units/delete.test.js	6	data.headers.should.not.have.property('x-delete-req');	CODE
CRITICAL⚡	test/units/delete.test.js	7	res.headers.should.not.have.property('x-delete-res');	CODE
CRITICAL⚡	test/units/delete.test.js	18	data.headers.should.not.have.property('x-delete-all');	CODE
CRITICAL⚡	test/units/delete.test.js	19	data.headers.should.not.have.property('x-delete-req');	CODE
CRITICAL⚡	test/units/delete.test.js	20	res.headers.should.not.have.property('x-delete-res');	CODE
CRITICAL	test/units/auth.test.js	5	data.headers.should.not.have.property('authorization');	CODE
CRITICAL	test/units/disable.test.js	13	res.headers.should.not.have.property('set-cookie');	CODE

Over-Commented Block9 hits · 9 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/components/json/stringify.js	1	// json2.js	COMMENT
LOW	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/components/json/stringify.js	21	// be packed without extra whitespace. If it is a number,	COMMENT
LOW	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/components/json/stringify.js	41	// : n;	COMMENT
LOW	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/components/json/stringify.js	61		COMMENT
LOW	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/components/json/stringify.js	81		COMMENT
LOW	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/components/json/stringify.js	101		COMMENT
LOW	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/components/json/stringify.js	121	// myData = JSON.parse(	COMMENT
LOW	test/units/ui.test.js	421	// var shadowUrl = 'http://shadow.remote-key2.test.w2.org/test/path?doNotParseJson';	COMMENT
LOW	test/units/ui.test.js	441		COMMENT

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers6 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/tab-frame.js	11	function onWhistleInspectorCustomTabReady(init, win) {	CODE
LOW	biz/webui/htdocs/src/js/iframe-dialog.js	10	function onWhistlePluginOptionModalReady(init, win) {	CODE
LOW	…cs/src/js/components/react-json-tree/JSONNestedNode.js	158	function componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {	CODE
LOW	…ebui/htdocs/src/js/components/react-json-tree/index.js	315	function componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {	CODE
LOW	lib/https/ca.js	582	function getOrCreateCert(servername) {	CODE
LOW	lib/util/index.js	2394	function checkIfAddInterceptPolicy(proxyHeaders, headers) {	CODE

Overly Generic Function Names4 hits · 4 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	test/index.test.js	282	(function getData() {	CODE
LOW	lib/util/data-server.js	319	function handleRequest(req, data) {	CODE
LOW	lib/plugins/load-plugin.js	1544	function getData(cb, isList, opt1, opt2) {	CODE
LOW	lib/service/compose-data.js	6	function getData(reqId) {	CODE