AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

dandavison/delta

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A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output

1.5 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for dandavison/delta, a Rust project with 32,619 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 50,452 lines of code across 147 source files, recording 68 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.5 (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.

1.5
Adjusted Signal
1.5
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-28
Last Push
32.6K
Stars
Rust
Language
50.5K
Lines of Code
147
Files
68
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 5.3/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 55 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 1.5/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 11 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.6/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 2 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 7.3/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 68 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 4LOW 64

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 68 distinct pattern matches across 5 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 Block53 hits · 50 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWetc/examples/styles.py1# avocet avocet avocet avocetCOMMENT
LOWsrc/paint.rs521 stateCOMMENT
LOWsrc/wrapping.rs121 StackEmpty,COMMENT
LOWsrc/main.rs61 // Do this first because both parsing all the input in `run_app()` andCOMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs41 /// format section of the line (the background color is determined by blame-palette). E.g.COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs61COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs81 #[arg(COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs121 #[arg(COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs141COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs161 /// since the pager is started *after* the color is detected.COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs181 /// `git diff --no-index --color -U999 file_1 file_2 | delta`.COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs201 ///COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs301 /// See STYLES section.COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs321 )]COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs401 pub hunk_header_style: String,COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs421 pub hyperlinks: bool,COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs461 )]COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs481COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs581 /// List supported languages and associated file extensions.COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs601COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs721 ///COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs801 value_name = "STYLE"COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs821 /// Text to display with a changed file path.COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs841 #[arg(long = "show-syntax-themes")]COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs861 pub side_by_side: bool,COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs901 ///COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs921 pub tokenization_regex: String,COMMENT
LOWsrc/cli.rs941 )]COMMENT
LOWsrc/edits.rs1use regex::Regex;COMMENT
LOWsrc/options/theme.rs1//! Delta doesn't have a formal concept of a "theme". What it has isCOMMENT
LOWsrc/options/get.rs1use std::collections::HashMap;COMMENT
LOWsrc/options/set.rs301// The feature list comprises features deriving from the following sources, listed in order ofCOMMENT
LOWsrc/options/set.rs321// The "ordered descendents" of a feature `f` is a list of features obtained via a pre-orderCOMMENT
LOWsrc/subcommands/diff.rs101 use std::io::Cursor;COMMENT
LOWsrc/ansi/console_tests.rs1// This file contains some unit tests copied from the `console` project:COMMENT
LOWsrc/ansi/mod.rs81}COMMENT
LOWsrc/ansi/mod.rs101/// calculating the width. If a double-width ("fullwidth") grapheme has to be cut, it is omitted andCOMMENT
LOWsrc/features/side_by_side.rs421 _ if panel_side == Left => (Some(BgFillMethod::Spaces), fill_style),COMMENT
LOWsrc/features/side_by_side.rs581 // Panels in side-by-side mode always sum up to an even number, so when the terminalCOMMENT
LOWsrc/features/mod.rs1use std::collections::HashMap;COMMENT
LOWsrc/features/hyperlinks.rs521 .into(),COMMENT
LOWsrc/features/diff_line_metadata.rs1// Emit per-line diff metadata as an OSC sequence, so that a host applicationCOMMENT
LOWsrc/features/diff_line_metadata.rs101COMMENT
LOWsrc/utils/helpwrap.rs1#![allow(clippy::comparison_to_empty)] // no_indent != "", instead of !no_indent.is_empty()COMMENT
LOWsrc/utils/bat/terminal.rs21 0x04 => Color::Blue,COMMENT
LOWsrc/handlers/grep.rs501COMMENT
LOWsrc/handlers/ripgrep_json.rs61 }COMMENT
LOWsrc/handlers/ripgrep_json.rs81// "text": "fn"COMMENT
LOWsrc/handlers/mod.rs21 /// `osc` is the `f` record to tag the row with (empty for none): whetherCOMMENT
LOWsrc/handlers/hunk_header.rs1// A module for constructing and writing the hunk header.COMMENT
LOWsrc/handlers/hunk_header.rs41 Yes,COMMENT
LOWsrc/handlers/diff_header.rs201 /// when no host negotiated emission. The path is selected exactly as theCOMMENT
LOWsrc/handlers/diff_header.rs581 // the case of a user with `diff.noprefix = true` who has directories named "a" or "b", whichCOMMENT
Fake / Example Data11 hits · 15 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW⚡src/format.rs371 let regex = make_placeholder_regex(&["placeholder"]);CODE
LOW⚡src/format.rs375 placeholder: Some(Placeholder::Str("placeholder")),CODE
LOW⚡src/format.rs385 let regex = make_placeholder_regex(&["placeholder"]);CODE
LOW⚡src/format.rs389 placeholder: Some(Placeholder::Str("placeholder")),CODE
LOW⚡src/format.rs398 let regex = make_placeholder_regex(&["placeholder"]);CODE
LOW⚡src/format.rs402 placeholder: Some(Placeholder::Str("placeholder")),CODE
LOW⚡src/format.rs410 let regex = make_placeholder_regex(&["placeholder"]);CODE
LOW⚡src/format.rs415 placeholder: Some(Placeholder::Str("placeholder")),CODE
LOWsrc/format.rs430 placeholder: Some(Placeholder::Str("placeholder")),CODE
LOWsrc/format.rs444 let regex = make_placeholder_regex(&["placeholder"]);CODE
LOWsrc/format.rs449 placeholder: Some(Placeholder::Str("placeholder")),CODE
Decorative Section Separators2 hits · 6 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMsrc/handlers/hunk_header.rs17// ───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐COMMENT
MEDIUMsrc/handlers/hunk_header.rs19// ───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘COMMENT
AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMsrc/handlers/mod.rs46 // proposal for more robust parsing logic.COMMENT
Slop Phrases1 hit · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMsrc/cli.rs1159Options --line-numbers-left-format and --line-numbers-right-format allow you to change the contents of the line number cCODE