AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

axios/axios

Name: axios/axios — 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).

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

0.7 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for axios/axios, a JavaScript project with 109,309 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 100,482 lines of code across 460 source files, recording 37 pattern matches distributed across 4 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

2026-10-28

Last Push

109.3K

Stars

JavaScript

Language

100.5K

Lines of Code

460

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 1.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 24 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 2.2/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 13 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.6/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 11 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.8/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 37 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 8MEDIUM 0LOW 29

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 37 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.

Magic Placeholder Names8 hits · 40 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	docs/zh/pages/advanced/authentication.md	88	headers: { "X-API-Key": "your-api-key-here" },	CODE
HIGH	docs/zh/pages/advanced/authentication.md	93	params: { apiKey: "your-api-key-here" },	CODE
HIGH	docs/fr/pages/advanced/authentication.md	88	headers: { "X-API-Key": "your-api-key-here" },	CODE
HIGH	docs/fr/pages/advanced/authentication.md	93	params: { apiKey: "your-api-key-here" },	CODE
HIGH	docs/es/pages/advanced/authentication.md	88	headers: { "X-API-Key": "your-api-key-here" },	CODE
HIGH	docs/es/pages/advanced/authentication.md	93	params: { apiKey: "your-api-key-here" },	CODE
HIGH	docs/pages/advanced/authentication.md	88	headers: { "X-API-Key": "your-api-key-here" },	CODE
HIGH	docs/pages/advanced/authentication.md	93	params: { apiKey: "your-api-key-here" },	CODE

Over-Commented Block13 hits · 13 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	README.md	781	// It can be convenient to set `baseURL` for an instance of axios to pass relative URLs	COMMENT
LOW	README.md	861		COMMENT
LOW	README.md	881	// method post	COMMENT
LOW	README.md	901	// to choose the first available in the environment	COMMENT
LOW	README.md	921	// options are: 'arraybuffer', 'document', 'json', 'text', 'stream'	COMMENT
LOW	README.md	941	// `false` - never set XSRF header	COMMENT
LOW	README.md	981		COMMENT
LOW	README.md	1021	// The `beforeRedirect` hook runs after sensitive headers are stripped during redirects.	COMMENT
LOW	README.md	1041	// `ERR_BAD_OPTION_VALUE`. When null/undefined, no restriction is applied.	COMMENT
LOW	README.md	1061	// `https_proxy` environment variables. If you are using environment variables	COMMENT
LOW	README.md	1081	// `rejectUnauthorized` to the generated tunneling agent, so they still apply	COMMENT
LOW	README.md	1121	// `insecureHTTPParser` boolean.	COMMENT
LOW	lib/adapters/http.js	1461		COMMENT

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers11 hits · 11 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	tests/unit/core/Axios.test.js	25	async function expectAdapterFailurePreserved() {	CODE
LOW	lib/core/Axios.js	222	this.interceptors.request.forEach(function unshiftRequestInterceptors(interceptor) {	CODE
LOW	lib/core/dispatchRequest.js	18	function throwIfCancellationRequested(config) {	CODE
LOW	lib/core/buildFullPath.js	45	function assertValidHttpProtocolURL(url, config) {	CODE
LOW	lib/core/mergeConfig.js	103	function getMergedTransitionalOption(config1, config2, prop) {	CODE
LOW	lib/adapters/http.js	111	function isNodeNativeEnvProxySupported(nodeVersion = process.versions && process.versions.node) {	CODE
LOW	lib/adapters/http.js	250	agent.callback = function axiosTunnelingAgentCallback(req, opts) {	CODE
LOW	lib/adapters/http.js	1229	options.beforeRedirects.sensitiveHeaders = function beforeRedirectSensitiveHeaders(	CODE
LOW	lib/helpers/normalizeURLForProtocolCheck.js	12	export default function normalizeURLForProtocolCheck(url) {	CODE
LOW	lib/helpers/estimateDataURLDecodedBytes.js	173	export default function estimateDataURLDecodedBytes(url) {	CODE
LOW	lib/helpers/estimateDataURLDecodedBytes.js	190	export function estimateDataURLBufferAllocation(url) {	CODE

Fake / Example Data5 hits · 5 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	tests/unit/adapters/http.test.js	5493	`http://fake-name.axios:${server.address().port}`,	CODE
LOW	tests/unit/adapters/http.test.js	5517	`http://fake-name.axios:${server.address().port}`,	CODE
LOW	tests/unit/adapters/http.test.js	5541	`http://fake-name.axios:${server.address().port}`,	CODE
LOW	tests/unit/adapters/http.test.js	5565	`http://fake-name.axios:${server.address().port}`,	CODE
LOW	tests/unit/adapters/http.test.js	5589	`http://fake-name.axios:${server.address().port}`,	CODE