Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.
This report summarizes scanner evidence for gdamore/tcell, a Go project with 5,225 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 34,946 lines of code across 134 source files, recording 156 pattern matches distributed across 2 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 6.5 (Moderate 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? 156 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 156 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 156 distinct pattern matches across 2 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 | mouse_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | style.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | encoding.go | 1 | // Copyright 2022 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | encoding.go | 21 | "golang.org/x/text/encoding" | COMMENT |
| LOW | encoding.go | 41 | // for "ISO8859-15". | COMMENT |
| LOW | cell_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | tty.go | 1 | // Copyright 2025 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | charset_unix.go | 1 | //go:build unix | COMMENT |
| LOW | color.go | 1 | // Copyright 2025 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | color.go | 21 | ) | COMMENT |
| LOW | color.go | 41 | // ColorValid is used to indicate the color value is actually | COMMENT |
| LOW | color.go | 461 | // ColorReset is used to indicate that the color should use the | COMMENT |
| LOW | event.go | 1 | // Copyright 2015 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | cell_bench_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | wscreen.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | eastasian.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen_bench_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | tscreen_win.go | 1 | // Copyright 2025 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 41 | Fill(rune, Style) | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 61 | // PutStrStyled writes a string starting at the given position, using | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 81 | // The results are not displayed until Show() or Sync() is called. | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 101 | HideCursor() | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 141 | // Colors returns the number of colors. All colors are assumed to | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 161 | Sync() | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 181 | // terminfo string are registered implicitly. | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 201 | // the View interface. | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 221 | // does not support application-initiated resizing, whereas the legacy terminal does. | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen.go | 241 | // data meaningfully. Terminals may prevent this for security reasons. | COMMENT |
| LOW | charset_plan9.go | 1 | //go:build plan9 | COMMENT |
| LOW | key_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | resize_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2025 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | color_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2025 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | input_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | cell.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | key.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | key.go | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | key.go | 61 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | key.go | 81 | // For letter keys, compare physical values against the lowercase aliases | COMMENT |
| LOW | interrupt.go | 1 | // Copyright 2025 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | console_mouse.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | mouse.go | 1 | // Copyright 2025 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | mouse.go | 21 | // without any intervening button release. On some terminals only the initiating | COMMENT |
| LOW | width_bench_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | encoding_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2022 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | gpm_linux.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | input.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | input.go | 61 | ) | COMMENT |
| LOW | screen_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | doc.go | 1 | // Copyright 2025 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | tscreen.go | 1 | // Copyright 2026 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | tscreen.go | 41 | // NewTerminfoScreen returns a Screen that uses the stock TTY interface | COMMENT |
| LOW | tscreen.go | 121 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | tscreen.go | 1121 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | TUTORIAL.md | 281 | // xmax, ymax := s.Size() | COMMENT |
| LOW | runes.go | 1 | // Copyright 2015 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | runes.go | 61 | // that such is desirable. Characters that represent either letters or | COMMENT |
| LOW | charset_unix_test.go | 1 | //go:build unix | COMMENT |
| LOW | resize.go | 1 | // Copyright 2025 The TCell Authors | COMMENT |
| LOW | charset_windows.go | 1 | //go:build windows | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | style.go | 92 | // as requested. ColorDefault can be used to select the global default. | COMMENT |
| HIGH | style.go | 100 | // as requested. ColorDefault can be used to select the global default. | COMMENT |
| HIGH⚡ | style.go | 131 | // as requested. | COMMENT |
| HIGH⚡ | style.go | 137 | // as requested. | COMMENT |
| HIGH⚡ | style.go | 143 | // as requested. | COMMENT |
| HIGH⚡ | style.go | 149 | // as requested. | COMMENT |
| HIGH⚡ | style.go | 155 | // as requested. (Reverse usually changes the foreground and background | COMMENT |
| HIGH | style.go | 180 | // as requested. The parameters can be: | COMMENT |