AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

burrowers/garble

Name: burrowers/garble — Go 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).

Obfuscate Go builds

1.4 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for burrowers/garble, a Go project with 5,799 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 24,298 lines of code across 87 source files, recording 32 pattern matches distributed across 3 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.4 (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.

1.4

Adjusted Signal

1.4

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-31

Last Push

5.8K

Stars

Language

24.3K

Lines of Code

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 6.8/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 32 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 6.8/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 32 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 31

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 32 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.

Over-Commented Block30 hits · 30 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	cache_shared.go	21		COMMENT
LOW	cache_shared.go	101	// listedPackages holds the listedPackage entries obtained via 'go list'.	COMMENT
LOW	cache_shared.go	301	Imports []string	COMMENT
LOW	reflect_abi_code.go	1	package main	COMMENT
LOW	reflect_abi_code.go	41		COMMENT
LOW	reflect_abi_code.go	61	// n2 .x+	COMMENT
LOW	reflect_abi_code.go	81	priority int	COMMENT
LOW	bundled_xtools.go	201	hash += 3 * termHash	COMMENT
LOW	bundled_xtools.go	241	// as garble is a toolexec tool so by nature it uses multiple processes.	COMMENT
LOW	transformer.go	641	return nil	COMMENT
LOW	transformer.go	741		COMMENT
LOW	transformer.go	1121	case "linkname", "linknamestd":	COMMENT
LOW	transformer.go	1581		COMMENT
LOW	transformer.go	1681	// Note that "package mypkg" also denotes a nil object in Defs,	COMMENT
LOW	position.go	61		COMMENT
LOW	runtime_patch.go	61	// Difficulty of decryption is based on the difficulty of finding a small (probably inlined) entry() function without ob	COMMENT
LOW	hash.go	81	// The part of the build ID that matters is the last, since it's the	COMMENT
LOW	hash.go	241	// hashWithStruct is separate from hashWithPackage since Go	COMMENT
LOW	hash.go	261	// Otherwise, we add garble's own inputs to the salt as a fallback.	COMMENT
LOW	hash.go	281	//	COMMENT
LOW	hash.go	341	sum := hasher.Sum(sumBuffer[:0])	COMMENT
LOW	bench_test.go	21	)	COMMENT
LOW	main.go	861	//	COMMENT
LOW	main_test.go	101	// such as asm, buildid, compile, and link.	COMMENT
LOW	cache_pkg.go	41	// which are transitive dependencies as well.	COMMENT
LOW	internal/ctrlflow/trash.go	541	}	COMMENT
LOW	scripts/bench_literals.go	1	// Copyright (c) 2020, The Garble Authors.	COMMENT
LOW	scripts/bench_literals.go	21	// Output is in Go benchmark format, compatible with benchstat.	COMMENT
LOW	scripts/check-third-party.sh	1	#!/bin/bash	COMMENT
LOW	.github/workflows/test.yml	21	# We mainly develop on Linux, so being able to see MacOS and Windows failures	COMMENT

Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	internal/literals/proxy.go	13	// proxyValuesPerStruct sets the scaffold budget from actual occupancy;	COMMENT

TODO Padding1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	internal/ctrlflow/ctrlflow.go	130	// TODO: implement a complete function removal	COMMENT