AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

freeCodeCamp/devdocs

Name: freeCodeCamp/devdocs — Ruby 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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0.6 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for freeCodeCamp/devdocs, a Ruby project with 39,584 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 79,068 lines of code across 1162 source files, recording 34 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.6 (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.

0.6

Adjusted Signal

0.6

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-30

Last Push

39.6K

Stars

Ruby

Language

79.1K

Lines of Code

1.2K

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 2.1/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 28 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.2/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 3 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 1.0/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 10 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 2.7/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 34 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 5LOW 29

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 34 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.

Over-Commented Block17 hits · 17 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	newrelic.yml	1	# This file configures the New Relic Agent. New Relic monitors	COMMENT
LOW	newrelic.yml	21	#	COMMENT
LOW	newrelic.yml	41	# When "true", the agent collects performance data about your	COMMENT
LOW	newrelic.yml	61		COMMENT
LOW	newrelic.yml	81		COMMENT
LOW	newrelic.yml	101	# exclude HTTP parameters from being captured.	COMMENT
LOW	newrelic.yml	121	# this threshold, a transaction trace will be recorded and sent to	COMMENT
LOW	newrelic.yml	141	# set to false when using other adapters.	COMMENT
LOW	newrelic.yml	161		COMMENT
LOW	newrelic.yml	181	# provide newrelic configuration settings for these environments here.	COMMENT
LOW	lib/app.rb	201	# only the full app needs the catalog, and debug.js is its own entry	COMMENT
LOW	lib/docs/mdn_content/markdown.rb	1	require 'cgi'	COMMENT
LOW	lib/docs/mdn_content/css.rb	1	require 'cgi'	COMMENT
LOW	lib/docs/core/doc.rb	181	items = items.map {\|item\| item['mtime']}	COMMENT
LOW	lib/docs/core/response_cache.rb	1	require 'base64'	COMMENT
LOW	assets/javascripts/unsupported.js	1	// @ts-check	COMMENT
LOW	assets/javascripts/vendor.js	1	// The third-party libraries, concatenated into one classic script.	COMMENT

Decorative Section Separators3 hits · 9 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	newrelic.yml	174	# ------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	lib/docs/scrapers/deno.rb	50	# ── Versions ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────	COMMENT
MEDIUM	lib/docs/scrapers/deno.rb	61	# ── Latest version lookup ─────────────────────────────────────────	COMMENT

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers7 hits · 7 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	lib/docs/filters/postgresql/entries.rb	212	def get_function_table_entries(selector)	CODE
LOW	lib/docs/filters/mdn/compat_tables.rb	61	def generate_compatibility_table()	CODE
LOW	lib/docs/filters/mdn/compat_tables.rb	71	def generate_compatibility_table_wrapper(url)	CODE
LOW	lib/docs/filters/threejs/clean_html.rb	125	def format_constructor_params(content)	CODE
LOW	lib/docs/core/doc.rb	271	def get_latest_github_release(owner, repo, opts, pattern: nil)	CODE
LOW	lib/docs/core/doc.rb	299	def get_latest_github_commit_date(owner, repo, opts)	CODE
LOW	lib/docs/scrapers/support_tables.rb	83	def support_to_note_indicators(support)	CODE

Self-Referential Comments2 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	lib/docs/filters/openjdk/clean_urls.rb	11	# The following code ignores most options that InternalUrlsFilter accepts,	COMMENT
MEDIUM	lib/docs/filters/hammerspoon/entries.rb	52	# Create a new entry for each method/function	COMMENT

Fake / Example Data3 hits · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	assets/javascripts/views/search/search_scope.js	42	this.placeholder = this.input.getAttribute("placeholder");	CODE
LOW	assets/javascripts/views/search/search_scope.js	124	this.input.removeAttribute("placeholder");	CODE
LOW	assets/javascripts/views/search/search_scope.js	154	this.input.setAttribute("placeholder", this.placeholder);	CODE

AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	lib/docs/core/doc.rb	189	# If the docs will never change, simply return '1.0.0'	COMMENT

Redundant / Tautological Comments1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	lib/docs/scrapers/cppref/cppref.rb	24	# Check if the 'headers' page has changed	COMMENT