A faster, simpler way to drive browsers supporting the Chrome DevTools Protocol.
This report summarizes scanner evidence for chromedp/chromedp, a Go project with 13,346 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 35,816 lines of code across 191 source files, recording 73 pattern matches distributed across 3 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.0 (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.
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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 72 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 1 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 1 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 73 finding(s).
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.
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.
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.
The scanner identified 73 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.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
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| LOW | query.go | 21 | // Selectable is what an element query accepts as the selector. The type of the | COMMENT |
| LOW | query.go | 41 | // }) | COMMENT |
| LOW | query.go | 81 | retryInterval time.Duration | COMMENT |
| LOW | query.go | 101 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | query.go | 121 | // [Search]. | COMMENT |
| LOW | query.go | 141 | // type is useful for DOM elements that the other types cannot retrieve, such | COMMENT |
| LOW | query.go | 161 | // The [After] option sets a func that runs after the query returns one or more | COMMENT |
| LOW | query.go | 1241 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | query.go | 1261 | // one more. To send the Enter key with no char event, send a rawKeyDown event | COMMENT |
| LOW | query.go | 1441 | // Dump is an element query action that writes a readable tree of the first | COMMENT |
| LOW | allocate_pipe.go | 21 | // outputGrace is how long an ExecAllocator waits for the rest of the | COMMENT |
| LOW | example_test.go | 621 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | console.go | 41 | // Text is the text that the DevTools console shows. A string argument is | COMMENT |
| LOW | console.go | 81 | func (m ConsoleMessage) IsException() bool { | COMMENT |
| LOW | console.go | 101 | // As [Events] does, Console subscribes when it returns, and not when the | COMMENT |
| LOW | action.go | 21 | // title := func(ctx context.Context, t *chromedp.Target) (string, error) { | COMMENT |
| LOW | action.go | 41 | // derive with [context.WithTimeout] from a context that has run once. See | COMMENT |
| LOW | action.go | 121 | // iterator over its payloads. It replaces ListenTarget. | COMMENT |
| LOW | drag.go | 21 | // dragInterceptWait is how long a drag waits after the last mouse move for | COMMENT |
| LOW | drag.go | 121 | res, err := cdp.Call(ctx, t, runtime.Evaluate, runtime.EvaluateParams{Expression: expr, ReturnByValue: ptr(true)}) | COMMENT |
| LOW | drag.go | 141 | // the start of the drag. Then the browser starts a native drag, which a | COMMENT |
| LOW | keepopen.go | 21 | // browser that KeepOpen started. | COMMENT |
| LOW | keepopen.go | 41 | // - The process starts detached: in a new session on Unix, and detached from | COMMENT |
| LOW | pdf.go | 41 | // A length is in inches, and a CSS pixel is 1/96 of an inch. For example, a | COMMENT |
| LOW | allocate.go | 21 | // This interface hides how the browser process runs. For example, an Allocator | COMMENT |
| LOW | allocate.go | 61 | if ep.execPath == "" { | COMMENT |
| LOW | allocate.go | 401 | type cmdRun struct { | COMMENT |
| LOW | allocate.go | 741 | // On Linux, the browser then starts with an empty environment. A program can | COMMENT |
| LOW | allocate.go | 821 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | allocate.go | 881 | // - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=737678 | COMMENT |
| LOW | allocate.go | 901 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | js.go | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | js.go | 41 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | input.go | 201 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 1 | // Package chromedp is a high level Chrome DevTools Protocol client. It drives | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 41 | // Context is the data that NewContext stores in a context.Context. Run needs | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 81 | // browserContextOwner is true when this context owns its BrowserContext. | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 101 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 121 | // the default allocator. It has no effect on an allocator that the caller | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 141 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 161 | // timeout. Then run the action with a context that you derive from it: | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 321 | type contextKey struct{} | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 621 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 641 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 661 | // Chrome hides every tab of a window except the active one, and a hidden page | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 681 | // Use it with a remote browser that keeps its tabs when a client leaves, so | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 701 | // "iframe" in [Targets]. [FromNode] and the DOM tree of the page do not reach | COMMENT |
| LOW | chromedp.go | 781 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | browser.go | 41 | // NewBrowserTransport then calls it with the protocol logger of the browser. | COMMENT |
| LOW | browser.go | 61 | LostConnection chan struct{} | COMMENT |
| LOW | nav_test.go | 381 | lctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx) | COMMENT |
| LOW | expose.go | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | expose.go | 41 | // - When A is a slice type, such as []any or []float64, fn gets all the | COMMENT |
| LOW | call.go | 41 | var zero R | COMMENT |
| LOW | screenshot.go | 21 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | eval.go | 21 | // When T is *runtime.RemoteObject, the result is the low-level protocol type, | COMMENT |
| LOW | eval.go | 141 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | poll.go | 81 | // For example, in our implementation the poll task does not survive a navigation. | COMMENT |
| LOW | kb/gen.go | 1 | //go:build ignore | COMMENT |
| LOW | kb/gen.go | 541 | ) | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | chromedp_test.go | 1554 | <p>Lorem ipsum</p> | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
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| LOW | js/waitForPredicatePageFunction.js | 1 | async function waitForPredicatePageFunction(predicateBody, polling, timeout, ...args) { | CODE |