AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

deskflow/deskflow

Name: deskflow/deskflow — C++ Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
Creator: AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

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

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0.8 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for deskflow/deskflow, a C++ project with 30,399 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 100,730 lines of code across 623 source files, recording 78 pattern matches distributed across 1 syntactic category. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.8 (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.

0.8

Adjusted Signal

0.8

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-30

Last Push

30.4K

Stars

C++

Language

100.7K

Lines of Code

623

Files

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 3.8/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 78 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 0.0/100 · LOW

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

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.8/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 78 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 0LOW 78

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 78 distinct pattern matches across 1 syntactic category. 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 Block78 hits · 78 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	src/unittests/server/ClientProxyTests.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/unittests/arch/ArchNetworkTests.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/unittests/client/ServerProxyTests.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/net/TCPSocket.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/net/SecureSocket.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/net/TCPListenSocket.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/net/SocketMultiplexer.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/net/SocketMultiplexer.h	41	//@}	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/net/SocketMultiplexer.h	61	[[noreturn]] void serviceThread(const void *);	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsWatchdog.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/XWindowsClipboard.cpp	821	}	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsDesks.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsDesks.cpp	21	#include "platform/MSWindowsComputer.h"	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsDesks.cpp	41	// X button stuff	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsDesks.cpp	61	// <unused>; <unused>	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsDesks.cpp	621	SetForegroundWindow(desk->m_window);	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsComputer.h	201		COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/OSXClipboard.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/XWindowsKeyState.cpp	21	#include "platform/XDGKeyUtil.h"	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/XWindowsKeyState.cpp	381	// control key. the meaning of a modifier bit (other than those)	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/OSXComputer.mm	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/OSXComputer.mm	21	#include "deskflow/ClientApp.h"	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/PortalClipboard.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsComputer.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsComputer.cpp	21	#include "deskflow/ClientApp.h"	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsComputer.cpp	41	// add backwards compatible multihead support (and suppress bogus warning).	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsComputer.cpp	61	#define MOUSEEVENTF_XUP 0x0100	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsComputer.cpp	1061	// it can't otherwise the system would interpret them normally on	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsComputer.cpp	1221	// 3. records the current x,y as "last" (so we can calc delta next time)	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsComputer.cpp	1381	if ((cursorPos.x != x) && (cursorPos.y != y)) {	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsComputer.cpp	1401	// the hook is called	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsComputer.cpp	1641		COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/PortalInputCapture.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/PortalInputCapture.cpp	21		COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/XWindowsEventQueueBuffer.cpp	81	pfds[0].events = POLLIN;	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/XWindowsComputer.cpp	21	#include "deskflow/KeyMap.h"	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/XWindowsComputer.cpp	41	#include <X11/extensions/dpms.h>	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/XWindowsComputer.cpp	61	#endif	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/XWindowsComputer.cpp	901	m_w = width;	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/XWindowsComputer.cpp	1501	break;	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/XWindowsComputer.cpp	1661	// X11 has a design flaw. If no client selected PointerMotionMask for	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsKeyState.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/MSWindowsHook.cpp	401	// out. so we'll just assume a menu is active if the menu key	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/EiComputer.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/EiComputer.cpp	21	#include "platform/PortalInputCapture.h"	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/PortalGlobalShortcuts.h	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/platform/EiEventQueueBuffer.cpp	81	}	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/server/ClientListener.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/server/ClientProxyUnknown.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/server/Server.h	241		COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/server/Server.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/server/Server.cpp	21	#include "deskflow/ipc/CoreIpc.h"	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/deskflow/Computer.cpp	61		COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/deskflow/ServerApp.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/deskflow/ServerApp.cpp	21	#include "deskflow/ipc/CoreIpc.h"	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/deskflow/ClientApp.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/deskflow/ClientApp.cpp	21	#include "net/NetworkAddress.h"	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/deskflow/ClipboardTypes.h	21	// considered the clipboard (e.g. the cut/copy/paste menu items	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/deskflow/KeyState.h	201	// the active modifiers and the buttons activating them	COMMENT
LOW	src/lib/deskflow/App.cpp	1	/*	COMMENT
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