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fastfetch-cli/fastfetch

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A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.

3.2 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for fastfetch-cli/fastfetch, a C project with 25,215 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 187,500 lines of code across 1485 source files, recording 640 pattern matches distributed across 6 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 3.2 (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.

3.2
Adjusted Signal
3.2
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-31
Last Push
25.2K
Stars
C
Language
187.5K
Lines of Code
1.5K
Files
640
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 14.1/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 635 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.8/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 2 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.1/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 3 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 16.5/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 640 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 2HIGH 3MEDIUM 1LOW 634

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 640 distinct pattern matches across 6 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.

Over-Commented Block630 hits · 548 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWCMakeLists.txt2121 endif()COMMENT
LOWtests/gpu_pci.c1// Tests for ffGPUParsePciIdsFile(), the pci.ids lookup that resolves a PCI GPU name on Linux andCOMMENT
LOWtests/endian.c21// in memory and read them back through the macro. The expectations below do not depend on theCOMMENT
LOWtests/endian-bigendian.c1// This translation unit pretends to be compiled on a big endian host, so that the endiannessCOMMENT
LOW.github/workflows/build-android.yml41 # in the sysroot and the runner image has no libfreetype-dev, so without this stepCOMMENT
LOW.github/workflows/build-android.yml81 PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PWD/freetype-pc" pkg-config --cflags freetype2COMMENT
LOW.github/workflows/build-android.yml121COMMENT
LOWsrc/fastfetch.c1#include "fastfetch.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/fastfetch.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/options/display.c1#include "fastfetch.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/time.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/jsonconfig.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/debug.h21 #define FF_DEBUG(format, ...) ((void) 0)COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/FFcache.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/arrutil.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/library.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/path.h21ssize_t readlink(const char* path, char* buf, size_t bufsiz);COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/percent.h21} FFPercentageModuleConfig;COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/endian.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/color.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/color.h21#define FF_COLOR_MODE_STRIKETHROUGH_ "9"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/color.h41COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/color.h61#define FF_COLOR_FG_256 "38;5;"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/textModifier.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/FFstrbuf.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/FFstrbuf.h21__stdcall char* StrStrIA(const char* lpFirst, const char* lpSrch);COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/mallocHelper.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/io.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/io.h21 #define FF_INVALID_FD (-1)COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/zlib.h21 // the library is linked in: nothing to open, nothing to resolve, nothing to failCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/zlib.h41 #define Z_EXPORTCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/memrchr.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/lua.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/networking.h41 ffStrbufDestroy(&state->command);COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/genconfig.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/strutil.h1#pragma onceCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/tracer.c1// DON'T CALL ANY FASTFETCH FUNCTION IN THIS FILE (to avoid recursion when -finstrument-functions is enabled)COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/format.c141 }COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/init.c1#include "fastfetch.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/init.c181COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/init.c201 "xrandr\n"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/init.c221#if FF_HAVE_IMAGEMAGICK6COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/init.c241#endifCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/init.c261 "vdpau\n"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/lua.c161 #endifCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/smbios.c141 return true;COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/binary_apple.c1#include "common/binary.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/netif_bsd.c1#include "common/netif.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/io_windows.c1#include "fastfetch.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/genconfig.c1#include "common/genconfig.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/genconfig.c21#elseCOMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/processing_linux.c1#include "fastfetch.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/processing_linux.c21 #include <sys/types.h>COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/jsonconfig.c1#include "fastfetch.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/jsonconfig.c341 yyjson_get_type_desc(previousSucceeded));COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/io_unix.c1#include "common/io.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/library.c1#include "fastfetch.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/FFPlatform_unix.c1#include "FFPlatform_private.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/netif_apple.c1#include "common/netif.h"COMMENT
LOWsrc/common/impl/FFPlatform_windows.c1#include "FFPlatform_private.h"COMMENT
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Hallucination Indicators2 hits · 30 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
CRITICALsrc/detection/wifi/wifi_android.c42// at com.android.server.wifi.WifiServiceImpl.enforceAccessPermission(WifiServiceImpl.java:1541)COMMENT
CRITICALsrc/detection/wifi/wifi_android.c43// at com.android.server.wifi.WifiServiceImpl.getConnectionInfo(WifiServiceImpl.java:5537)COMMENT
Synthetic Comment Markers3 hits · 20 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHCONTRIBUTING.md8 This document is generated by AI and reviewed by humans. It is primarily intended for AI-assisted development, whileCODE
HIGHsrc/3rdparty/display-library/adl_structures.h3755///\brief Structure Containing All Generic LED configuration for user requested LED pattern. The driver will apply the cCOMMENT
HIGHsrc/3rdparty/display-library/adl_structures.h3772///\brief Structure Containing All custom grid pattern LED configuration for user requested LED grid pattern. The driverCOMMENT
Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping3 hits · 4 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWcompletions/fastfetch.zsh74 except Exception:CODE
LOWcompletions/fastfetch.bash108 except Exception:CODE
MEDIUMcompletions/fastfetch.bash88def main(current):CODE
Redundant / Tautological Comments1 hit · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWcompletions/fastfetch.bash8 # Check if Python is availableCOMMENT
Deep Nesting1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWscripts/gen-man.py183CODE