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darlinghq/darling

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

Darwin/macOS emulation layer for Linux

1.7 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for darlinghq/darling, a Objective-C project with 13,676 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 1,220,232 lines of code across 23390 source files, recording 2636 pattern matches distributed across 6 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.7 (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.

1.7
Adjusted Signal
1.7
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-28
Last Push
13.7K
Stars
Objective-C
Language
1.2M
Lines of Code
23.4K
Files
2.6K
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 8.3/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 2634 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.0/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 2 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 10.2/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 2636 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 2635

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 2636 distinct pattern matches across 6 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 Block2628 hits · 2116 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h81 typeE: normalCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h101#define MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_10 101000COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h121COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h141#endifCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h161 #error MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED must be >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_0COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h181 #if __has_feature(attribute_deprecated_with_message)COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h241#endifCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h261 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_1_AND_LATER WEAK_IMPORT_ATTRIBUTECOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h301#elif MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED < MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_2COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h341 * but later deprecated in Mac OS X 10.2COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h361 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_3_AND_LATER WEAK_IMPORT_ATTRIBUTECOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h401 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_1_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_3 __OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_DEPCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h441 * and deprecated in Mac OS X 10.4COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h501#elif MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_4COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h541 */COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h601 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_4_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5 DEPRECATED_ATTRIBUTECOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h641#if __AVAILABILITY_MACROS_USES_AVAILABILITYCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h681 * but later deprecated in Mac OS X 10.6COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h741 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_7_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED __OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_DEPRECATED(__MAC_10_7, __MACOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h781 */COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h841 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_6_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_7 DEPRECATED_ATTRIBUTECOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h881#if __AVAILABILITY_MACROS_USES_AVAILABILITYCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h921 * but later deprecated in Mac OS X 10.8COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h981#elif MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_8COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1021 */COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1081 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_3_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_9 DEPRECATED_ATTRIBUTECOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1121 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_6_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_9 __OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_DEPCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1161#if __AVAILABILITY_MACROS_USES_AVAILABILITYCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1221#elif MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_10COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1261#if __AVAILABILITY_MACROS_USES_AVAILABILITYCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1301 * but later deprecated in Mac OS X 10.10COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1321#elseCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1361 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_0_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_10_2 __OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1401 */COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1461 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_7_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_10_2 DEPRECATED_ATTRIBUTECOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1501 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_10_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_10_2 __OSX_AVAILABLE_BUTCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1541 * but later deprecated in Mac OS X 10.10.3COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1601#elif MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_10_3COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1641#if __AVAILABILITY_MACROS_USES_AVAILABILITYCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1681 * but later deprecated in Mac OS X 10.10.3COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1701#elseCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1741 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_0_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_11 __OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_DECOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1781 */COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1841 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_7_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_11 DEPRECATED_ATTRIBUTECOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1881 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_10_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_11 __OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_DCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1921#if __AVAILABILITY_MACROS_USES_AVAILABILITYCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h1981#elif MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_11_2COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2021#if __AVAILABILITY_MACROS_USES_AVAILABILITYCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2061 * but later deprecated in Mac OS X 10.11.2COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2121#elif MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_11_2COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2161 */COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2221 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_3_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_11_3 DEPRECATED_ATTRIBUTECOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2261 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_6_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_11_3 __OSX_AVAILABLE_BUT_COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2301 */COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2361 #define AVAILABLE_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_11_AND_LATER_BUT_DEPRECATED_IN_MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_11_3 DEPRECATED_ATTRIBUTCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2401#if __AVAILABILITY_MACROS_USES_AVAILABILITYCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2441 * but later deprecated in Mac OS X 10.11.4COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2501#elif MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_11_4COMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2541#if __AVAILABILITY_MACROS_USES_AVAILABILITYCOMMENT
LOW…loper/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h2581 * but later deprecated in Mac OS X 10.11.4COMMENT
2568 more matches not shown…
Deep Nesting3 hits · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtools/generate-xcode-stubs.py416CODE
LOWtools/generate-xcode-stubs.py472CODE
LOWtools/generate-xcode-stubs.py582CODE
Self-Referential Comments1 hit · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMsrc/xcselect/clt_install.py2# This file is part of Darling.COMMENT
Fake / Example Data2 hits · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…Old/CFOpenDirectory/Headers/CFOpenDirectoryConstants.h812 @discussion Full name of a record (e.g., "John Doe", "John Doe's Computer")CODE
LOW…ory/include/CFOpenDirectory/CFOpenDirectoryConstants.h826 @discussion Full name of a record (e.g., "John Doe", "John Doe's Computer")CODE
Structural Annotation Overuse1 hit · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWsrc/PlistBuddy/PlistBuddy.c1237// NOTE: This function doesn't seem to work at all in the original programCOMMENT
Example Usage Blocks1 hit · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…c/frameworks/CoreServices/src/CarbonCore/Resources.cpp32// Usage example:COMMENT