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davebcn87/pi-autoresearch

Autonomous experiment loop extension for pi

9.8 Moderate pattern signal View on GitHub

Maintenance and Governance Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for davebcn87/pi-autoresearch, a TypeScript project with 8,166 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 16,408 lines of code across 45 source files, recording 79 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 9.8 (Moderate 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.

9.8
Adjusted Signal
9.8
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-07
Last Push
8.2K
Stars
TypeScript
Language
16.4K
Lines of Code
45
Files
79
Pattern Hits
2026-10-12
Scan Date
0.00
HC Hit Rate

Risk Review · v3

Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.

Cognitive Ownership Risk 8.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 25 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.0/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 37.7/100 · MEDIUM

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 76 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 44.1/100 · MEDIUM

Which changes need focused human review? 79 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 56LOW 23

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 79 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.

Decorative Section Separators54 hits · 134 pts
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Hyper-Verbose Identifiers22 hits · 22 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/commands.ts41export function getAutoresearchArgumentCompletions(argumentPrefix: string): AutocompleteItem[] | null {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/compaction.ts32export function autoresearchSummaryPathsFor(workDir: string): AutoresearchSummaryPaths {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/compaction.ts45export function buildAutoresearchCompactionSummary(paths: AutoresearchSummaryPaths): string {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/jsonl.ts145export function isAutoresearchConfigEntry(entry: unknown): entry is AutoresearchConfigEntry {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/jsonl.ts161export function hasAutoresearchConfigHeader(jsonlContent: string): boolean {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/jsonl.ts165export function extractAutoresearchSessionName(jsonlContent: string): string {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/shortcuts.ts30export function autoresearchShortcutsConfigPath(agentDir: string = getAgentDir()): string {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/shortcuts.ts34export function resolveAutoresearchShortcuts(CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/shortcuts.ts79function isValidShortcutConfigValue(value: unknown): value is KeyId | null | undefined {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/shortcuts.ts113function defaultAutoresearchShortcuts(): AutoresearchShortcuts {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/index.ts126export function countConsecutiveDiscardOrCrashResults(state: AutoResumeGuardState): number {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/index.ts523export function shouldAutoActivateAutoresearch(CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/index.ts538function autoresearchActivationData(entry: CustomEntry): AutoresearchActivationEntryData | null {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/index.ts547function recordedActivationDecision(ctx: ExtensionContext, workDir: string): boolean | null {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/index.ts683function appendRightAlignedAdaptiveHint(CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/index.ts2578 function canOpenFullscreenDashboard(ctx: ExtensionContext): boolean {CODE
LOWextensions/pi-autoresearch/hooks.ts166export function appendHookLogEntryIfConfigured(CODE
LOWsite/public/script.js253function replaceQuoteWithSandboxedEmbed(quote) {CODE
LOWsite/public/script.js270function resizeSandboxedTweetEmbed(event) {CODE
LOWsite/public/script.js289function initializeResultsDashboard() {CODE
LOWsite/public/script.js348function setDashboardPlaybackState(dashboard, visibleRuns, isComplete) {CODE
LOWassets/template.html950 function computeImprovementPercent(baseline, best, direction) {CODE
Self-Referential Comments1 hit · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMtests/finalize_test.sh21# Create a fresh test repo with a simulated autoresearch sessionCOMMENT
Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary1 hit · 2 pts
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MEDIUMsite/public/index.html38 <a href="#guardrails">Guardrails</a>CODE
Over-Commented Block1 hit · 1 pts
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LOWskills/autoresearch-finalize/finalize.sh1#!/usr/bin/env bashCOMMENT