AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

ellite/Wallos

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

Wallos: Open-source, self-hostable personal subscription tracker. Visualize your recurring expenses, manage your budget, and save money.

1.1 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for ellite/Wallos, a PHP project with 8,768 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 85,516 lines of code across 391 source files, recording 74 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.1 (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.

1.1
Adjusted Signal
1.1
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-31
Last Push
8.8K
Stars
PHP
Language
85.5K
Lines of Code
391
Files
74
Pattern Hits
2026-10-31
Scan Date
0.01
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 3.3/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 57 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 1.9/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 17 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 2.7/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 49 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 5.1/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 74 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 1HIGH 1MEDIUM 1LOW 71

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 74 distinct pattern matches across 7 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.

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers49 hits · 47 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWincludes/subscription_categories.php27function saveSubscriptionCategories($db, $subscriptionId, array $categoryIds)CODE
LOWincludes/subscription_categories.php44function getCategoriesBySubscription($db, array $subscriptions)CODE
LOWincludes/logo_theme_variant.php108function generateThemedLogoVariant($image)CODE
LOWincludes/remember_me.php17function restoreSessionFromRememberMeCookie($db)CODE
LOWincludes/budget_period_calculations.php14 function getDefaultBudgetAnchorDate()CODE
LOWincludes/budget_period_calculations.php126 function getSubscriptionIntervalSpec($cycle, $frequency)CODE
LOWincludes/budget_period_calculations.php144 function shiftSubscriptionOccurrence(DateTime $date, array $subscription, DateTime $anchorDate, $direction)CODE
LOWincludes/budget_period_calculations.php185 function getSubscriptionOccurrencesInRange(array $subscription, DateTime $rangeStart, DateTime $rangeEnd)CODE
LOWincludes/budget_period_calculations.php259 function convertPriceToMainCurrency($price, $currencyId, SQLite3 $database, $userId)CODE
LOWincludes/budget_period_calculations.php266 function computeAmountNeededInPeriod(array $subscriptions, DateTime $today, DateTime $periodEnd, SQLite3 $database, CODE
LOWlibs/Parsedown.php1651 protected function elementApplyRecursiveDepthFirst($closure, array $Element)CODE
LOWlibs/Parsedown.php1677 protected function elementsApplyRecursiveDepthFirst($closure, array $Elements)CODE
LOWlibs/Parsedown.php1901 protected function filterUnsafeUrlInAttribute(array $Element, $attribute)CODE
LOWlibs/OTPHP/OTPInterface.php84 public function isIssuerIncludedAsParameter(): bool;CODE
LOWlibs/OTPHP/OTPInterface.php86 public function setIssuerIncludedAsParameter(bool $issuer_included_as_parameter): void;CODE
LOWlibs/OTPHP/ParameterTrait.php75 public function isIssuerIncludedAsParameter(): boolCODE
LOWlibs/OTPHP/ParameterTrait.php80 public function setIssuerIncludedAsParameter(bool $issuer_included_as_parameter): voidCODE
LOWscripts/subscriptions.js184function logoFilenameForCurrentTheme(subscription) {CODE
LOWscripts/admin.js195function saveAccountRegistrationsButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/admin.js237function saveSecuritySettingsButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/subscription-details.js73function detailsProgressPercentage(subscription) {CODE
LOWscripts/subscription-details.js95function renderSubscriptionDetails(subscription) {CODE
LOWscripts/dashboard.js2 function updateAiRecommendationNumbers() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js1function openNotificationsSettings(type) {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js62function saveNotificationsEmailButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js89function testNotificationEmailButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js112function saveNotificationsWebhookButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js135function testNotificationsWebhookButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js160function saveNotificationsTelegramButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js177function testNotificationsTelegramButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js194function testNotificationsPushPlusButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js209function saveNotificationsPushPlusButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js224function testNotificationsMattermostButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js243function saveNotificationsMattermostButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js262function saveNotificationsGotifyButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js282function testNotificationsGotifyButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js301function saveNotificationsPushoverButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js318function testNotificationsPushoverButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js335function saveNotificationsDiscordButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js354function testNotificationsDiscordButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js373function testNotificationsNtfyButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js392function saveNotificationsNtfyButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js413function testNotificationsServerchanButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js428function saveNotificationsServerchanButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js556function removePushSubscriptionButton(id, row) {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js589function testNotificationsPushButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/notifications.js596function saveNotificationsPushButton() {CODE
LOWscripts/settings.js903function savePaymentMethodsSorting() {CODE
LOWscripts/settings.js1092function setShowSubscriptionProgress() {CODE
Fake / Example Data15 hits · 20 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWlibs/PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php1363 * PHPMailer::validateAddress('user@example.com', function($address) {COMMENT
LOWlibs/PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php1397 * * quoted elements: `'"test blah"@example.org'`COMMENT
LOWapi/admin/get_admin_settings.php24 "smtp_username": "admin@example.com",CODE
LOW⚡api/subscriptions/get_subscriptions.php52 "payer_user_name": "John Doe",CODE
LOW⚡api/subscriptions/get_subscriptions.php54 "payer_user_names": ["John Doe", "Jane Doe"],CODE
LOW⚡api/subscriptions/get_subscriptions.php54 "payer_user_names": ["John Doe", "Jane Doe"],CODE
LOW⚡api/subscriptions/get_subscriptions.php80 "payer_user_name": "Jane Doe",CODE
LOW⚡api/subscriptions/get_subscriptions.php89 "email": "admin@example.com"CODE
LOW⚡api/subscriptions/get_subscriptions.php94 "email": "user@example.com"CODE
LOW⚡api/subscriptions/get_subscription.php44 "payer_user_name": "John Doe",CODE
LOW⚡api/subscriptions/get_subscription.php46 "payer_user_names": ["John Doe", "Jane Doe"],CODE
LOW⚡api/subscriptions/get_subscription.php46 "payer_user_names": ["John Doe", "Jane Doe"],CODE
LOWapi/household/get_household.php20 "name": "John Doe",CODE
LOWapi/household/get_household.php26 "name": "Jane Doe",CODE
LOWapi/notifications/get_notification_settings.php24 "smtp_username": "user@example.com",CODE
Hallucination Indicators1 hit · 10 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
CRITICALscripts/libs/apexcharts.min.js5!function(t,e){"object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typeof module?module.exports=e():"function"==typeof define&&defineCODE
Over-Commented Block6 hits · 6 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWdocker-compose.yaml1services:COMMENT
LOWdocker-compose.yaml21 # OIDC_USER_IDENTIFIER: "sub"COMMENT
LOWlogout.php21 $oidcSettings = $oidcConfiguration['settings'];COMMENT
LOWservice-worker.js1// Legacy entry point. Browsers that registered the worker before it moved toCOMMENT
LOWincludes/validate_endpoint.php1<?phpCOMMENT
LOWlibs/Parsedown.php1<?phpCOMMENT
AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMstartup.sh98# Essentially wait until all child processes exitCOMMENT
Cross-Language Confusion1 hit · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHscreenshots/capture_screenshots.py4Requires: pip install playwright && playwright install chromiumSTRING
Slop Phrases1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWscripts/libs/apexcharts.min.js5!function(t,e){"object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typeof module?module.exports=e():"function"==typeof define&&defineCODE