AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

getsops/sops

Name: getsops/sops — Go 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).

Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

0.8 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for getsops/sops, a Go project with 23,574 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 31,249 lines of code across 131 source files, recording 20 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.8 (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.

0.8

Adjusted Signal

0.8

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-27

Last Push

23.6K

Stars

Language

31.2K

Lines of Code

131

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 3.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 17 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.5/100 · LOW

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

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.8/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 20 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 2LOW 18

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 20 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.

Over-Commented Block14 hits · 14 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	sops.go	521	// Metadata struct, those not ending with EncryptedSuffix, if EncryptedSuffix	COMMENT
LOW	kms/keysource.go	61	Role string	COMMENT
LOW	shamir/shamir.go	101		COMMENT
LOW	shamir/shamir.go	141	func mult(a, b uint8) (out uint8) {	COMMENT
LOW	shamir/shamir.go	161	bitOfB := b >> i & 1	COMMENT
LOW	azkv/keysource.go	41	// MasterKey is an Azure Key Vault Key used to Encrypt and Decrypt SOPS'	COMMENT
LOW	age/keysource.go	61		COMMENT
LOW	version/version.go	101	// RetrieveLatestReleaseVersion fetches the latest release version from GitHub.	COMMENT
LOW	version/version.go	141	// This function combines the advantages of both retrieval strategies: the resilience	COMMENT
LOW	gcpkms/keysource.go	21		COMMENT
LOW	gcpkms/keysource.go	61	ResourceID string	COMMENT
LOW	gcpkms/mock_kms_server_test.go	1	// Copyright 2019 Google LLC	COMMENT
LOW	hcvault/keysource.go	121	// SOPS' data key.	COMMENT
LOW	pgp/keysource.go	41	// pgpTTL is the duration after which a MasterKey requires rotation.	COMMENT

Slop Phrases2 hits · 4 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	version/version.go	143	// However, it's worth noting that the API usage can be affected by GitHub's rate limiting.	COMMENT
LOW	.github/workflows/release.yml	70	# When bumping it, make sure to check out goreleaser's changelog first!	COMMENT

AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	.goreleaser.yaml	319	The [SLSA provenance](https://slsa.dev/provenance/v0.2) of the binaries, packages, and SBOMs can be found within the	CODE

Unused Imports2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	examples/per_file/main.py	2		CODE
LOW	examples/all_in_one/main.py	2		CODE

Fake / Example Data1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	stores/ini/store_test.go	38	Value: "John Doe",	CODE