AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

github/explore

SlopCodeMonitor badge for github/explore Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

Community-curated topic and collection pages on GitHub

0.6 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for github/explore, a Ruby project with 4,941 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 22,499 lines of code across 1415 source files, recording 13 pattern matches distributed across 1 syntactic category. 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
2026-10-26
Last Push
4.9K
Stars
Ruby
Language
22.5K
Lines of Code
1.4K
Files
13
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 2.9/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 13 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.0/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 2.9/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 13 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 2.9/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 13 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 0LOW 13

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 13 distinct pattern matches across 1 syntactic category. 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.

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers13 hits · 13 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtest/topics_test_helper.rb73def possible_image_file_names_for(topic)CODE
LOWtest/test_helper.rb180def graphql_query_string_for_user_logins(logins)CODE
LOWtest/test_helper.rb193def graphql_query_string_for_org_logins(logins)CODE
LOWtest/test_helper.rb206def graphql_query_string_for_repos(repos)CODE
LOWtest/test_helper.rb283def convert_from_real_to_query_safe(string)CODE
LOWtest/test_helper.rb291def convert_from_query_safe_to_real(string)CODE
LOWtest/collections_test_helper.rb17def invalid_collection_message(collection)CODE
LOWtest/collections_test_helper.rb76def image_paths_for_collection(collection)CODE
LOWtest/collections_test_helper.rb107def annotate_collection_item_error(collection, string, error_message)CODE
LOWtest/collections_test_helper.rb118def possible_image_file_names_for_collection(collection)CODE
LOWtest/collections_test.rb225 def existing_items_for_collection(collection)CODE
LOW.github/workflows/explore-triage-commenter-writer.yml223 async function getAssociatedPullRequestNumber(run, runHeadSha) {CODE
LOW.github/workflows/explore-triage-commenter-writer.yml363 function validateOptionalStatusToken(value, label, required) {CODE