AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

copy/v86

SlopCodeMonitor badge for copy/v86 Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

x86 PC emulator and x86-to-wasm JIT, running in the browser

2.4 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for copy/v86, a JavaScript project with 23,645 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 141,945 lines of code across 354 source files, recording 230 pattern matches distributed across 10 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.4 (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.

2.4
Adjusted Signal
2.4
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-30
Last Push
23.6K
Stars
JavaScript
Language
141.9K
Lines of Code
354
Files
230
Pattern Hits
2026-10-31
Scan Date
0.05
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 7.0/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 213 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 4.3/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 15 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.3/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 3 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 11.5/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 230 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 9HIGH 7MEDIUM 1LOW 213

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 230 distinct pattern matches across 10 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 Block204 hits · 190 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtests/qemu/compiler.h21#elseCOMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/compiler.h41#endifCOMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/compiler.h61#ifndef container_ofCOMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/compiler.h81 struct { \COMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/compiler.h101# elseCOMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/config-host.h1/* Automatically generated by create_config - do not modify */COMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/config-host.h21 NULLCOMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/config-host.h41#define CONFIG_EPOLL_CREATE1 1COMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/config-host.h61#define CONFIG_LINUX_MAGIC_H 1COMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/test-i386.c21#include <assert.h>COMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/test-i386.c41//#ifdef __SSE__COMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/test-i386.c61COMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/test-i386.c101#define OP xorCOMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/test-i386.c121#define OP incCOMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/test-i386.c141#undef CC_MASKCOMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/test-i386.c161#include "test-i386-shift.h"COMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/test-i386.c181#define OP btCOMMENT
LOWtests/qemu/test-i386.c1901 printf("VM86 end\n");COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/hyperv_connections.c1#include "libcflat.h"COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/hyperv_synic.c1#include "libcflat.h"COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/pmu.c1COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/pmu.c21#define EVNTSEL_PC_SHIFT 19COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/types.h1#ifndef __TYPES_HCOMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/access.c21COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/access.c81#define AC_PTE_ACCESSED_MASK (1 << AC_PTE_ACCESSED_BIT)COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/ioram.h1#ifndef __IO_RAM_HCOMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/svm.h101#define V_INTR_PRIO_MASK (0x0f << V_INTR_PRIO_SHIFT)COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/svm.h181};COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/svm.h201#define SVM_SELECTOR_L_MASK (1 << SVM_SELECTOR_L_SHIFT)COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/svm.h221#define INTERCEPT_DR7_MASK (1 << 7)COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/svm.h241#define SVM_EXITINTINFO_TYPE_EXEPT SVM_EVTINJ_TYPE_EXEPTCOMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/svm.h261#define SVM_EXIT_READ_DR2 0x022COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/svm.h281#define SVM_EXIT_CR0_SEL_WRITE 0x065COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/svm.h301#define SVM_EXIT_INVLPG 0x079COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/vmexit.c1#include "libcflat.h"COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/hyperv.h1#ifndef __HYPERV_HCOMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/hyperv.h21#define HV_X64_MSR_SVERSION 0x40000081COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/hyperv.h41COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/hyperv_stimer.c1#include "libcflat.h"COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/vmx.h481 "xchg %%r11, regs+0x58\n\t" \COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/vmx.h501COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/vmx.h521#define EPT_MEM_TYPE_WP 5ulCOMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/vmx.h541#define EPT_CAP_INVEPT (1ull << 20)COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/vmx.h561#define EPT_VLT_RD 1COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/vmx_tests.c1/*COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/x86/eventinj.c1#include "libcflat.h"COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/libcflat.h21#define __LIBCFLAT_HCOMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/libcflat.h61# define __PRI32_PREFIXCOMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/pci-edu.h21#define PCI_VENDOR_ID_QEMU 0x1234COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/virtio-mmio.h1#ifndef _VIRTIO_MMIO_H_COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/virtio-mmio.h21#define VIRTIO_MMIO_GUEST_FEATURES_SEL 0x024COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/kbuild.h1#ifndef _KBUILD_H_COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/asm-generic/page.h21COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/asm-generic/barrier.h1#ifndef _ASM_BARRIER_H_COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/asm-generic/barrier.h21#ifndef smp_mbCOMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/asm-generic/io.h101#endifCOMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/asm-generic/pci.h1#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_PCI_H_COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/asm-generic/atomic.h1#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_ATOMIC_H__COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/libfdt/fdt.h101 size, content */COMMENT
LOWtests/kvm-unit-tests/lib/libfdt/libfdt.h161/**********************************************************************/COMMENT
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Hallucination Indicators9 hits · 90 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
CRITICALtests/devices/virtio_balloon.js57 emulator.v86.cpu.devices.virtio_balloon.GetStats(s => { console.log(s); });CODE
CRITICALtests/devices/virtio_balloon.js58 emulator.v86.cpu.devices.virtio_balloon.Cleanup(async (zeroed) => {CODE
CRITICALtests/devices/virtio_balloon.js99 emulator.v86.cpu.devices.virtio_balloon.Inflate(30000);CODE
CRITICALsrc/browser/main.js3059 if(emulator.v86.cpu.devices.cdrom.has_disk())CODE
CRITICALsrc/browser/main.js3067 if(emulator.v86.cpu.devices.cdrom.has_disk())CODE
CRITICALsrc/browser/starter.js309 this.screen_adapter = new ScreenAdapter(screen_options, () => this.v86.cpu.devices.vga && this.v86.cpu.devices.vCODE
CRITICALsrc/browser/starter.js1046 this.v86.cpu.devices.cdrom.set_cdrom(new SyncBuffer(result));CODE
CRITICALsrc/browser/starter.js1055 this.v86.cpu.devices.cdrom.set_cdrom(image);CODE
CRITICALsrc/browser/starter.js1066 this.v86.cpu.devices.cdrom.eject();CODE
Cross-Language Confusion (JS/TS)5 hits · 35 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHtests/benchmark/arch-python.js38print("fib(", n, ")= ", fib(n))CODE
HIGH⚡tests/api/2g-mem.js38 print(m, " ", collectgarbage("count"))CODE
HIGH⚡tests/api/2g-mem.js41print("memory usage (kB) ", collectgarbage("count"))CODE
HIGH⚡tests/api/2g-mem.js42print("page count ", m)CODE
HIGH⚡tests/api/2g-mem.js47print("ok")CODE
Synthetic Comment Markers1 hit · 8 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHsrc/buffer.js756 // - loads slices of the file asynchronously as requestedCOMMENT
Empty Error Handlers1 hit · 5 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHtools/split-image.py45except FileExistsError:CODE
Deep Nesting4 hits · 4 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtools/fs2json.py109CODE
LOWtools/fs2json.py218CODE
LOWtools/copy-to-sha256.py84CODE
LOWtools/copy-to-sha256.py116CODE
Slop Phrases3 hits · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtools/docker/alpine/build-state.js9console.log("Don't forget to run `make all` before running this script");CODE
LOWtools/docker/debian/build-state-9p.js12console.log("Don't forget to run `make all` before running this script");CODE
LOWtools/docker/debian/build-state-raw-disk.js12console.log("Don't forget to run `make all` before running this script");CODE
Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping1 hit · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMtools/copy-to-sha256.py40 print("Error: zstandard module required when using --zstd flag")CODE
Unused Imports1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtools/copy-to-sha256.py11CODE
Hyper-Verbose Identifiers1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWsrc/browser/serial.js331export function VirtioConsoleAdapterXtermJS(element, bus, xterm_lib)CODE