AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

dompdf/dompdf

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3.7 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for dompdf/dompdf, a PHP project with 11,207 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 48,336 lines of code across 167 source files, recording 151 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 3.7 (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.

3.7
Adjusted Signal
3.7
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-02
Last Push
11.2K
Stars
PHP
Language
48.3K
Lines of Code
167
Files
151
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 6.0/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 52 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 11.6/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 99 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 4.4/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 42 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 15.0/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 151 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 3LOW 148

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 151 distinct pattern matches across 4 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.

Fake / Example Data99 hits · 120 pts
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Hyper-Verbose Identifiers42 hits · 44 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtests/HelpersTest.php149 public function testCustomProtocolParsing(): voidCODE
LOWtests/DompdfTest.php287 public function testSpaceAtStartOfSecondInlineTag()CODE
LOWtests/OptionsTest.php113 public function testSettersWithUnderscores()CODE
LOWtests/OptionsTest.php247 public function testGettersWithUnderscores()CODE
LOWtests/OptionsTest.php415 public function testValidateLocalUriRejectsSiblingPathWithMatchingPrefix()CODE
LOWtests/OptionsTest.php447 public function testValidateLocalUriReturnsFileNotFoundForMissingPath()CODE
LOWtests/OptionsTest.php469 public function testArtifactPathValidation()CODE
LOWtests/OptionsTest.php526 private function translateNumberStringToInt($value)CODE
LOWtests/Renderer/RendererTest.php28 public function testResizeBackgroundImage(CODE
LOWtests/Renderer/RendererTest.php52 public static function resizeBackgroundImageProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/FrameReflower/ImageTest.php13 public function testGetMinMaxContainerWidthAuto(): voidCODE
LOWtests/FrameReflower/ImageTest.php32 public function testGetMinMaxContainerWidthBasic(): voidCODE
LOWtests/FrameReflower/ImageTest.php51 public function testGetMinMaxWidthPercentageChain(): voidCODE
LOWtests/FrameReflower/ImageTest.php74 public function testGetMinMaxWidthZeroWidthZeroHeight(): voidCODE
LOWtests/FrameReflower/ImageTest.php93 public function testGetMinMaxWidthMinMaxCaps(): voidCODE
LOWtests/Css/ShorthandTest.php20 public static function marginPaddingShorthandProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/ShorthandTest.php113 public static function borderWidthShorthandProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/ShorthandTest.php140 public static function borderStyleShorthandProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/ShorthandTest.php164 public static function borderColorShorthandProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/ShorthandTest.php188 public static function borderOutlineShorthandProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/ShorthandTest.php264 public static function borderRadiusShorthandProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/ShorthandTest.php281 public function testBorderRadiusShorthand(CODE
LOWtests/Css/ShorthandTest.php297 public static function backgroundShorthandProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/ShorthandTest.php380 public static function listStyleShorthandProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/AttributeTranslatorTest.php10 public static function attributeToStyleTranslationProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/AttributeTranslatorTest.php84 public function testAttributeToStyleTranslation(CODE
LOW⚡tests/Css/StyleTest.php251 public static function cssImageNoBaseHrefProvider(): arrayCODE
LOW⚡tests/Css/StyleTest.php260 public static function cssImageWithBaseHrefProvider(): arrayCODE
LOW⚡tests/Css/StyleTest.php269 public static function cssImageWithStylesheetBaseHrefProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/StyleTest.php326 public function testCssImageWithStylesheetBaseHref(string $value, $expected): voidCODE
LOWtests/Css/StyleTest.php339 public static function backgroundPositionProvider(): arrayCODE
LOWtests/Css/StyleTest.php583 public static function lengthPercentagePositiveProvider(): arrayCODE
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LOWtests/OutputTest/OutputTest.php73 public function testOutputMatchesReferenceRendering(Dataset $dataset): voidCODE
LOWsrc/Options.php578 public function getArtifactPathValidation()CODE
LOWsrc/Options.php587 public function setArtifactPathValidation($validator)CODE
LOWsrc/Options.php803 public function setDefaultPaperOrientation(string $defaultPaperOrientation): selfCODE
LOWsrc/Options.php820 public function getDefaultPaperOrientation(): stringCODE
LOWsrc/Options.php935 public function setIsFontSubsettingEnabled($isFontSubsettingEnabled)CODE
LOWsrc/Options.php944 public function getIsFontSubsettingEnabled()CODE
LOWsrc/Helpers.php185 public static function buildContentDispositionHeader($dispositionType, $filename)CODE
LOWsrc/Css/Style.php2768 protected function computeBackgroundPositionTransformOrigin(string $v1, string $v2): arrayCODE
AI Slop Vocabulary3 hits · 9 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMsrc/FrameReflower/Block.php83 // Absolutely positionedCOMMENT
MEDIUMsrc/FrameReflower/Block.php308 // Absolutely positionedCOMMENT
MEDIUMsrc/Css/Stylesheet.php961 // FIXME: this is not particularly robust...COMMENT
Over-Commented Block7 hits · 7 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW.github/workflows/test.yml81 - name: Run code snifferCOMMENT
LOWlib/Cpdf.php3921 * currentBaseFont.COMMENT
LOWlib/Cpdf.php5401 $text = str_replace(["\r", "\n"], "", $text);COMMENT
LOWlib/Cpdf.php5961 //if already cached, need not to read againCOMMENT
LOWsrc/FrameReflower/Table.php121 return;COMMENT
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LOWsrc/FrameDecorator/Text.php101 {COMMENT