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This report summarizes scanner evidence for eza-community/eza, a Rust project with 23,521 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 26,301 lines of code across 299 source files, recording 91 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 4.2 (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.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 83 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 2 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 6 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 91 finding(s).
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.
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.
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.
The scanner identified 91 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.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | deny.toml | 1 | # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 21 | # `target_family = "unix"` configuration, that only having windows targets in | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 41 | #exclude = [] | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 61 | # This section is considered when running `cargo deny check advisories` | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 81 | # * Low - CVSS Score 0.1 - 3.9 | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 121 | ] | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 141 | #] | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 161 | multiple-versions = "warn" | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 181 | ] | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 201 | #allow = [ | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 221 | # detection. Unlike skip, it also includes the entire tree of transitive | COMMENT |
| LOW | deny.toml | 241 | # List of URLs for allowed Git repositories | COMMENT |
| LOW | build.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | .config/cliff.toml | 81 | # limit the number of commits included in the changelog. | COMMENT |
| LOW | devtools/generate-timestamp-test-dir.sh | 21 | #touch --date="next hour" ./next_hour | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/dependabot.yml | 1 | # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml | 1 | # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/lib.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/dir_action.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/error.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/vars.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/vars.rs | 21 | pub static TIME_STYLE: &str = "TIME_STYLE"; | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/mod.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/mod.rs | 21 | //! effect. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/mod.rs | 41 | //! --sort=Name --sort=size`. Did the user change their mind about sorting, and | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/mod.rs | 61 | //! | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/mod.rs | 101 | /// These **options** represent a parsed, error-checked versions of the | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/filter.rs | 41 | flags: filter_flags, | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/filter.rs | 61 | // (https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/79266) | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/options/filter.rs | 81 | impl Default for SortField { | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/loc/mod.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/code.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/cell.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/cell.rs | 101 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/output/cell.rs | 121 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/cell.rs | 181 | /// The Unicode “display width” of a string. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/grid_details.rs | 41 | /// | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/time.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/time.rs | 21 | /// - The current year, because certain formats will be less precise when | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/tree.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/tree.rs | 21 | //! ```text | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/tree.rs | 121 | // part into it. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/details.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/details.rs | 21 | //! ```text | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/details.rs | 41 | //! | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/details.rs | 101 | /// columns for each row. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/output/details.rs | 281 | let mut errors = Vec::new(); | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/info/filetype.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/info/mod.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/info/sources.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/theme/mod.rs | 501 | fn selinux_colon(&self) -> Style { self.ui.security_context.unwrap_or_default().selinux().colon() } | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/theme/lsc.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/theme/lsc.rs | 21 | // then reading styles from that theme. The LS_COLORS variable, on the other | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/fs/dir_action.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/fs/dir_action.rs | 21 | /// directory status will be ignored, and both will be listed side-by-side. | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/fs/recursive_size.rs | 1 | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Christina Sørensen | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/fs/recursive_size.rs | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/fs/recursive_size.rs | 41 | pub const fn is_none(&self) -> bool { | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/fs/recursive_size.rs | 61 | _ => default, | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/fs/dir.rs | 21 | /// | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | src/output/tree.rs | 22 | //! ┌───────┬───────┬───────────────────────┐ | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | src/output/tree.rs | 24 | //! ├───────┼───────┼───────────────────────┤ | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | src/output/tree.rs | 37 | //! └───────┴───────┴───────────────────────┘ | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM⚡ | src/output/details.rs | 53 | //! ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM⚡ | src/output/details.rs | 55 | //! ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM⚡ | src/output/details.rs | 61 | //! └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | rust-toolchain.toml | 4 | # NOTE: don't forget to also update Cargo.toml and .github/workflows/unit-tests.yml | COMMENT |
| LOW | rust-toolchain.toml | 4 | # NOTE: don't forget to also update Cargo.toml and .github/workflows/unit-tests.yml | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | devtools/dir-generator.sh | 21 | # Set time to unix epoch | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/update-dependencies.sh | 13 | # Check if the file has changes staged or unstaged | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | devtools/dir-generator.sh | 73 | touch "symlinks/ lorem ipsum" --date=@0 | CODE |
| LOW | devtools/dir-generator.sh | 74 | ln -s "lorem ipsum" "symlinks/ lorem ipsum" | CODE |