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bradtraversy/design-resources-for-developers

Curated list of design and UI resources from stock photos, web templates, CSS frameworks, UI libraries, tools and much more

14.5 Moderate pattern signal View on GitHub

Maintenance and Governance Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for bradtraversy/design-resources-for-developers with 67,132 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 2,191 lines of code across 6 source files, recording 20 pattern matches distributed across 3 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 14.5 (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.

14.5
Adjusted Signal
14.5
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-10
Last Push
67.1K
Stars
—
Language
2.2K
Lines of Code
6
Files
20
Pattern Hits
2026-10-12
Scan Date
0.67
HC Hit Rate

Risk Review · v3

Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.

Cognitive Ownership Risk 49.3/100 · MEDIUM

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 18 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 4.5/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 2 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 19.9/100 · LOW

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

PR Review Velocity Impact 59.9/100 · HIGH

Which changes need focused human review? 20 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 4MEDIUM 0LOW 16

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 20 distinct pattern matches across 3 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.

Synthetic Comment Markers4 hits · 20 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHreadme.md469| [BudgetPixel Free Images](https://budgetpixel.com/images)| 9,000+ AI-generated photos and illustrations, CC BY 4.0 (crCODE
HIGHreadme.md512| [BudgetPixel Sound Effects](https://budgetpixel.com/sfx)| 2,600+ AI-generated sound effects in WAV/MP3, CC BY 4.0 (creCODE
HIGHreadme.md513| [BudgetPixel Background Music](https://budgetpixel.com/background-music)| 700+ AI-generated instrumental tracks in WAVCODE
HIGHreadme.md632| [PagePatch Free Hero Example](https://github.com/l-portet/pagepatch-free-hero) | Free AI-generated HTML/CSS hero exampCODE
Hyper-Verbose Identifiers14 hits · 10 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py66 def test_accepts_one_new_resource(self):STRING
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py76 def test_rejects_duplicate_url_with_different_scheme_and_www(self):STRING
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py83 def test_rejects_the_unchanged_product_ownership_placeholder(self):STRING
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py90 def test_accepts_a_product_ownership_explanation(self):STRING
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py99 def test_accepts_a_correction_to_the_same_resource(self):STRING
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py108 def test_accepts_a_resource_after_the_base_advances(self):STRING
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py119 def test_rejects_unrelated_readme_changes(self):STRING
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py126 def test_sponsor_block_detects_changes(self):STRING
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py131 def test_top_level_validation_accepts_a_resource(self):STRING
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py140 def test_top_level_validation_rejects_a_sponsor_change(self):STRING
LOW⚡.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py150 def test_top_level_validation_allows_trusted_readme_maintenance(self):STRING
LOW.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py163 def test_top_level_validation_rejects_banner_image_changes(self):STRING
LOW.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py171 def test_merge_validation_uses_the_fetched_merges_base_parent(self):STRING
LOW.github/scripts/test_validate_contribution.py185 def test_merge_validation_rejects_a_different_head_commit(self):STRING
Fake / Example Data2 hits · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWreadme.md1268| [Doodle Ipsum](https://doodleipsum.com/)| The lorem ipsum of illustrations. Just customize your doodles, grab the codeCODE
LOWreadme.md1519| [Lorem Ipsum Generator (Default Text)](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/openlorem/) | CODE