AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

boardgameio/boardgame.io

Name: boardgameio/boardgame.io — TypeScript Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
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Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

State Management and Multiplayer Networking for Turn-Based Games

1.0 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for boardgameio/boardgame.io, a TypeScript project with 12,481 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 59,834 lines of code across 329 source files, recording 39 pattern matches distributed across 6 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.0 (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.

1.0

Adjusted Signal

1.0

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-30

Last Push

12.5K

Stars

TypeScript

Language

59.8K

Lines of Code

329

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 4.8/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 39 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 1.4/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 14 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 4.8/100 · 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 0HIGH 0MEDIUM 10LOW 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 39 distinct pattern matches across 6 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.

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers14 hits · 16 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW⚡	python/test_boardgameio.py	45	def test_on_sync_shall_call_think(self):	CODE
LOW⚡	python/test_boardgameio.py	53	def test_on_update_shall_call_think(self):	CODE
LOW⚡	python/test_boardgameio.py	61	def test_on_sync_shall_not_call_think_if_game_id_is_different(self):	CODE
LOW⚡	python/test_boardgameio.py	67	def test_on_sync_shall_not_call_think_if_player_id_is_not_active(self):	CODE
LOW⚡	python/test_boardgameio.py	75	def test_on_sync_shall_call_gameover_if_game_is_over(self):	CODE
LOW	python/test_boardgameio.py	99	def test_make_move_shall_return_move_action(self):	CODE
LOW	python/test_boardgameio.py	109	def test_game_event_shall_return_event_action(self):	CODE
LOW	src/core/backwards-compatibility.ts	12	export function supportDeprecatedMoveLimit(	CODE
LOW	src/core/turn-order.ts	36	function RemovePlayerFromActivePlayersArg(	CODE
LOW	src/core/turn-order.ts	271	export function UpdateActivePlayersOnceEmpty(ctx: Ctx) {	CODE
LOW	src/core/turn-order.ts	325	function ApplyActivePlayerArgument(	CODE
LOW	src/lobby/react.test.tsx	353	function renderLobbyAlreadyLoggedIn() {	CODE
LOW	src/master/filter-player-view.test.ts	13	function validateNotTransientState(state: any) {	CODE
LOW	src/master/master.test.ts	91	function validateNotTransientState(state: any) {	CODE

AI Slop Vocabulary8 hits · 16 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	docs/documentation/snippets/multiplayer.54b541fd.js	12	"use strict";var e=require("react"),t=require("object-assign"),n=require("scheduler");function r(e){for(var t="https://r	CODE
MEDIUM	docs/documentation/snippets/multiplayer.54b541fd.js	12	"use strict";var e=require("react"),t=require("object-assign"),n=require("scheduler");function r(e){for(var t="https://r	CODE
MEDIUM	docs/documentation/snippets/example-3.1fa4f5db.js	12	"use strict";var e=require("react"),t=require("object-assign"),n=require("scheduler");function r(e){for(var t="https://r	CODE
MEDIUM	docs/documentation/snippets/example-3.1fa4f5db.js	12	"use strict";var e=require("react"),t=require("object-assign"),n=require("scheduler");function r(e){for(var t="https://r	CODE
MEDIUM	docs/documentation/snippets/example-1.c952ec6d.js	12	"use strict";var e=require("react"),t=require("object-assign"),n=require("scheduler");function r(e){for(var t="https://r	CODE
MEDIUM	docs/documentation/snippets/example-1.c952ec6d.js	12	"use strict";var e=require("react"),t=require("object-assign"),n=require("scheduler");function r(e){for(var t="https://r	CODE
MEDIUM	docs/documentation/snippets/example-2.e4675089.js	12	"use strict";var e=require("react"),t=require("object-assign"),n=require("scheduler");function r(e){for(var t="https://r	CODE
MEDIUM	docs/documentation/snippets/example-2.e4675089.js	12	"use strict";var e=require("react"),t=require("object-assign"),n=require("scheduler");function r(e){for(var t="https://r	CODE

Structural Annotation Overuse5 hits · 10 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	integration/README.md	2147	#### Step 1: Add `homepage` to `package.json`	COMMENT
LOW	integration/README.md	2172	#### Step 2: Install `gh-pages` and add `deploy` to `scripts` in `package.json`	COMMENT
LOW⚡	integration/README.md	2213	#### Step 3: Deploy the site by running `npm run deploy`	COMMENT
LOW⚡	integration/README.md	2221	#### Step 4: Ensure your project’s settings use `gh-pages`	COMMENT
LOW⚡	integration/README.md	2227	#### Step 5: Optionally, configure the domain	COMMENT

Over-Commented Block8 hits · 8 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	python/test_boardgameio.py	1	#	COMMENT
LOW	python/examples/tic-tac-toe/tictactoebot.py	1	#!/usr/bin/python	COMMENT
LOW	docs/documentation/plugins.md	21	// Create an object that becomes available in `ctx`	COMMENT
LOW	docs/documentation/api/Client.md	21		COMMENT
LOW	docs/documentation/api/Client.md	41	// 2. 'server' specifies the server location in the format: [http[s]://]hostname[:port];	COMMENT
LOW	docs/documentation/api/Client.md	261	// Your React component representing the game board.	COMMENT
LOW	docs/documentation/api/Client.md	281	// Arguments:	COMMENT
LOW	scripts/integration.js	21	// --config.minimum-release-age=0 cancels the root-level cooldown that pnpm	COMMENT

Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary2 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	scripts/integration.js	24	// the CLI flag wins. This sealed scaffold uses pinned deps, so the cooldown	COMMENT
MEDIUM	.github/dependabot.yml	12	# The integration scaffold has its own manifest and no lockfile, so it has to	COMMENT

Deep Nesting2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	python/boardgameio.py	54		CODE
LOW	python/examples/tic-tac-toe/boardgameio.py	54		CODE