AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

capistrano/capistrano

Name: capistrano/capistrano — Ruby 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).

A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

3.4 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for capistrano/capistrano, a Ruby project with 13,012 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 18,812 lines of code across 145 source files, recording 36 pattern matches distributed across 8 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 3.4 (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.

3.4

Adjusted Signal

3.4

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-07-19

Last Push

13.0K

Stars

Ruby

Language

18.8K

Lines of Code

145

Files

Pattern Hits

2026-10-31

Scan Date

0.01

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 8.0/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 23 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 8.4/100 · LOW

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

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 1.1/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 4 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 15.2/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 36 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 2HIGH 0MEDIUM 4LOW 30

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 36 distinct pattern matches across 8 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.

Hallucination Indicators2 hits · 20 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
CRITICAL	docs/assets/js/foundation.min.js	13	var libFuncName=null;if(typeof jQuery=="undefined"&&typeof Zepto=="undefined"&&typeof $=="function")libFuncName=$;else i	CODE
CRITICAL	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.tooltips.js	19	+ Foundation.libs.tooltips.settings.tooltipClass.substring(1)	CODE

Over-Commented Block14 hits · 14 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	.rubocop_todo.yml	1	# This configuration was generated by	COMMENT
LOW	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.forms.js	321		COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/scm.rb	1	module Capistrano	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/scm.rb	41	def release_path	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/scm.rb	61	raise NotImplementedError, "Your SCM strategy module should provide a #test method"	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/scm.rb	81	def clone	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/plugin.rb	1	require "capistrano/all"	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/plugin.rb	21	# Package up and distribute your plugin class as a gem and you're good to go!	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/plugin.rb	41	# Example:	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/plugin.rb	61	# Implemented by subclasses to define Rake tasks. Typically a plugin will call	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/immutable_task.rb	1	module Capistrano	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/configuration/scm_resolver.rb	1	module Capistrano	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/configuration/validated_variables.rb	1	require "capistrano/proc_helpers"	COMMENT
LOW	lib/capistrano/configuration/plugin_installer.rb	1	# Encapsulates the logic for installing plugins into Capistrano. Plugins must	COMMENT

Fake / Example Data11 hits · 13 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	docs/assets/js/foundation.min.js	13	var libFuncName=null;if(typeof jQuery=="undefined"&&typeof Zepto=="undefined"&&typeof $=="function")libFuncName=$;else i	CODE
LOW	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.placeholder.js	6	var isInputSupported = 'placeholder' in document.createElement('input'),	CODE
LOW	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.placeholder.js	7	isTextareaSupported = 'placeholder' in document.createElement('textarea'),	CODE
LOW	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.placeholder.js	43	return $element.data('placeholder-enabled') && $element.hasClass('placeholder') ? '' : element.value;	CODE
LOW	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.placeholder.js	57	} else if ($element.hasClass('placeholder')) {	CODE
LOW	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.placeholder.js	105	if (input.value == $input.attr('placeholder') && $input.hasClass('placeholder')) {	CODE
LOW	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.placeholder.js	115	$input.removeClass('placeholder');	CODE
LOW⚡	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.placeholder.js	152	$input.addClass('placeholder');	CODE
LOW⚡	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.placeholder.js	153	$input[0].value = $input.attr('placeholder');	CODE
LOW⚡	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.placeholder.js	155	$input.removeClass('placeholder');	CODE
LOW⚡	docs/assets/js/foundation/foundation.placeholder.js	165	name : 'placeholder',	CODE

Self-Referential Comments2 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	spec/lib/capistrano/plugin_spec.rb	34	# Define an example task to allow testing hooks	COMMENT
MEDIUM	lib/capistrano/configuration/plugin_installer.rb	5	# This class is not used directly; instead it is typically accessed via the	COMMENT

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers4 hits · 4 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	spec/support/test_app.rb	179	def move_configuration_to_custom_location(location)	CODE
LOW	lib/capistrano/application.rb	71	def exit_because_of_exception(ex)	CODE
LOW	lib/capistrano/configuration/validated_variables.rb	93	def assert_value_or_block_not_both(value, block)	CODE
LOW	lib/capistrano/dsl/task_enhancements.rb	51	def exit_deploy_because_of_exception(ex)	CODE

Slop Phrases1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	lib/capistrano/plugin.rb	16	# Within the plugin you can use any methods of the Rake or Capistrano DSLs, like	COMMENT

AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	lib/capistrano/doctor/output_helpers.rb	4	# (other than `title`) is indented by four spaces to facilitate copying and	COMMENT

Example Usage Blocks1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	lib/capistrano/immutable_task.rb	7	# Usage:	COMMENT