AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

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0.7 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket, a Rust project with 9,694 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 55,364 lines of code across 1633 source files, recording 38 pattern matches distributed across 2 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
2026-10-31
Last Push
9.7K
Stars
Rust
Language
55.4K
Lines of Code
1.6K
Files
38
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 3.5/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 38 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 3.5/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 38 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 1LOW 37

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 38 distinct pattern matches across 2 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 Block37 hits · 37 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWMakefile.toml61# This can be overridden with -e to build a different variant from the variants/ directoryCOMMENT
LOWMakefile.toml81# publishing-related stepsCOMMENT
LOWMakefile.toml101# Infra.toml for AMI and SSM commands; it's a comma-separated list likeCOMMENT
LOWMakefile.toml141# multiple `Infra.toml` files for publishing to different places, and wants toCOMMENT
LOW.github/workflows/weekly.yml1# This is basically a duplicate of the main "build" workflow, but uses GOPROXY=directCOMMENT
LOWsources/clarify.toml81 { path = "LICENSE-MIT", hash = 0xafaec4cb },COMMENT
LOW…defaults/nvidia-k8s-device-plugin-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…/shared-defaults/nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…ia/defaults.d/84-nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…lts.d/83-nvidia-k8s-device-plugin-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…ia/defaults.d/78-nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…ia/defaults.d/78-nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…ia/defaults.d/84-nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…lts.d/83-nvidia-k8s-device-plugin-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…ia/defaults.d/78-nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…ia/defaults.d/84-nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…lts.d/83-nvidia-k8s-device-plugin-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…ia/defaults.d/84-nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…lts.d/83-nvidia-k8s-device-plugin-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…ia/defaults.d/78-nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…ia/defaults.d/84-nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…lts.d/83-nvidia-k8s-device-plugin-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…ia/defaults.d/84-nvidia-cdi-specs-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOW…lts.d/83-nvidia-k8s-device-plugin-compat-symlinks.toml1# Backwards-compatibility for the legacy /usr/lib/nvidia/tesla library pathCOMMENT
LOWsources/models/src/lib.rs41// This is the top-level model exposed by the API system. It contains the common sections for allCOMMENT
LOWsources/models/src/generator.rs1//! The 'generator' module holds types that handles the settings generator metadataCOMMENT
LOWsources/generate-readme/src/lib.rs41/// to `build.rs`). It uses the doc comments found in `src/main.rs` and the `cargo-readme` crate toCOMMENT
LOWsources/api/datastore/src/key.rs41 /// Examples:COMMENT
LOWsources/api/datastore/src/filesystem.rs101 })?;COMMENT
LOWsources/api/datastore/src/filesystem.rs141 if let Some(parent) = path.parent() {COMMENT
LOWsources/api/datastore/src/filesystem.rs241/// path.COMMENT
LOWsources/api/datastore/src/constraints_check.rs1//! The outcome of the constraint check determines whether the transaction can proceed to commit.COMMENT
LOWsources/api/datastore/src/serialization/pairs.rs321COMMENT
LOWsources/api/datastore/src/deserialization/pairs.rs1//! The goal of this module is to be able to turn a mapping of dotted keys -> values into aCOMMENT
LOWsources/api/datastore/src/deserialization/pairs.rs21//! }COMMENT
LOWsources/api/datastore/src/deserialization/pairs.rs61 let de = CompoundDeserializer::new(map, map.keys().map(|s| s.borrow().clone()).collect(), None);COMMENT
LOWsources/api/migration/migration-helpers/src/lib.rs41/// must not add a key in all cases if it's missing, because you could be adding the key to anCOMMENT
Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary1 hit · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMBUILDING.md54Bottlerocket uses [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/install/#supported-platforms) to orchestrate package and image buildsCODE