A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
This report summarizes scanner evidence for getzola/zola, a Rust project with 17,570 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 46,128 lines of code across 403 source files, recording 63 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.6 (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.
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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 56 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 7 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 63 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 63 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 | docs/content/documentation/content/page.md | 101 | # will not be rendered. | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/documentation/content/page.md | 121 | # The section path will still be used. | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/documentation/content/section.md | 61 | # Lower values have higher priority. | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/documentation/content/section.md | 81 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | docs/content/documentation/content/section.md | 101 | # Useful for the same reason as `render` but when you don't want a 404 when | COMMENT |
| LOW | …content/documentation/getting-started/configuration.md | 81 | # The filenames to use for the feeds. Used as the template filenames, too. | COMMENT |
| LOW | …content/documentation/getting-started/configuration.md | 101 | # taxonomies = [ | COMMENT |
| LOW | …content/documentation/getting-started/configuration.md | 161 | # When set to "true", support for GitHub-style alerts, a.k.a. callouts or admonitions, is enabled in the Markdown parser | COMMENT |
| LOW | …content/documentation/getting-started/configuration.md | 241 | # Whether to remove date prefixes for page path slugs. | COMMENT |
| LOW | …content/documentation/getting-started/configuration.md | 261 | # Whether to produce the search index as a javascript file or as a JSON file | COMMENT |
| LOW | …content/documentation/getting-started/configuration.md | 281 | # For example | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/documentation/templates/pages-sections.md | 41 | // earlier / heavier | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/documentation/templates/pages-sections.md | 101 | assets: Array<String>; | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/linkita/index.md | 321 | # If you disable default favicons, you can use | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/linkita/index.md | 341 | # Default value: false | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/linkita/index.md | 361 | # Information shown on post pages. | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/linkita/index.md | 461 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/linkita/index.md | 541 | [extra.languages.en] | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/coast/index.md | 121 | # Whether to automatically compile all Sass files in the sass directory | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/coffee/index.md | 121 | # When set to "true", the generated HTML files are minified. | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/sass/site.scss | 21 | //@import url("syntax-theme-dark.css") (prefers-color-scheme: dark); | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/config/src/config/markup.rs | 21 | /// Emit an error for missing highlight languages. Defaults to false | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/config/src/config/markup.rs | 141 | /// Syntax highlighting option | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/page.rs | 41 | /// The HTML rendered of the page | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/page.rs | 61 | pub toc: Vec<Heading>, | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/section.rs | 41 | /// Not listed directly anywhere but we still render them in the queue | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/types.rs | 1 | use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize}; | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/utils.rs | 61 | /// Eg if there is the following tree: | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/utils.rs | 101 | /// `unicode_words()`. Unlisted languages fall back to 200 wpm. | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/front_matter/page.rs | 21 | pub title: Option<String>, | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/front_matter/page.rs | 41 | pub datetime_tuple: Option<(i32, u8, u8)>, | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/front_matter/page.rs | 61 | /// redirect to this | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/front_matter/section.rs | 21 | /// Whether to sort by "date", "order", "weight" or "none". Defaults to `none`. | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/front_matter/section.rs | 41 | pub paginate_path: String, | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/content/src/front_matter/section.rs | 61 | /// sections for each year under a posts section. | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/imageproc/tests/resize_image.rs | 461 | // fn resize_image_png_avif_max_quality_min_speed() { | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/imageproc/src/ops.rs | 1 | use errors::{Result, anyhow}; | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/templates/src/helpers.rs | 1 | use std::borrow::Cow; | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/templates/src/functions/load_data.rs | 481 | /// ``` | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/templates/src/functions/load_data.rs | 541 | /// An example XML file `example.xml` could be: | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/cmd/serve.rs | 1 | // Contains an embedded version of livereload-js 3.2.4 | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | docs/content/documentation/deployment/zeabur.md | 14 | ## Step 1: Create a Project on Zeabur | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/documentation/deployment/zeabur.md | 20 | ## Step 2: Push Your Zola Files to GitHub | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | docs/content/documentation/deployment/zeabur.md | 40 | ## Step 3: Create a Service on Zeabur | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | docs/content/documentation/deployment/zeabur.md | 45 | ## Step 4: Select Your Zola Repository | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | docs/content/documentation/deployment/zeabur.md | 49 | ## Step 5: Automatic Deployment | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | docs/content/documentation/deployment/zeabur.md | 56 | ## Step 6: Domain Binding | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | docs/content/documentation/deployment/zeabur.md | 62 | ## Step 7: Your Site is Live! | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/zola-hacker/index.md | 51 | ### Step 1: Create a new zola site | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/zola-hacker/index.md | 57 | ### Step 2: Install Zola Hacker Theme | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/zola-hacker/index.md | 74 | ### Step 3: Configuration | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/zola-hacker/index.md | 89 | ### Step 4: Add new content | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/zola-hacker/index.md | 100 | ### Step 5: Run the project | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | docs/content/documentation/templates/feeds/index.md | 35 | name, for example `"John Doe"`. While according to the | CODE |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/radion/index.md | 205 | authors = ["John Smith", "Joe Schmoe", "Jane Doe"] | CODE |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/zola-quiet/index.md | 123 | author = "Jane Doe" | CODE |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/zolarwind/index.md | 307 | authors = ["Jane Doe"] | CODE |
| LOW | docs/content/themes/zolarwind/index.md | 327 | - **authors**: an optional array of all the post's authors, e.g. `["Jane Doe"]`. | CODE |
| LOW | components/markdown/tests/markdown.rs | 324 | 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet | CODE |
| LOW | components/markdown/tests/markdown.rs | 324 | 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | components/content/src/library.rs | 448 | // Don't forget to push the actual parent | COMMENT |
| LOW | components/site/tests/common.rs | 330 | // Don't forget to remove / because | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | src/cmd/serve.rs | 573 | // The first entry is ultimately to watch config.toml in a more robust manner on Linux when | COMMENT |