AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

gitleaks/gitleaks

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

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2.3 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for gitleaks/gitleaks, a Go project with 30,538 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 27,340 lines of code across 297 source files, recording 50 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.3 (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.

2.3

Adjusted Signal

2.3

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-28

Last Push

30.5K

Stars

Language

27.3K

Lines of Code

297

Files

Pattern Hits

2026-10-31

Scan Date

0.01

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 4.1/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 23 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 4.3/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 24 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 2.9/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 4 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 11.2/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 50 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 3MEDIUM 0LOW 47

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 50 distinct pattern matches across 4 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.

Fake / Example Data24 hits · 24 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	955	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	976	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	997	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1018	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1039	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1060	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1081	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1102	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1123	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1144	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1165	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1186	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1207	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1228	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1249	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	1270	Email: "user@example.com",	CODE
LOW	testdata/expected/report/json_simple.json	15	"Author": "John Doe",	CODE
LOW	testdata/expected/report/template_jsonextra.json	15	"Author": "John Doe",	CODE
LOW	report/template_test.go	36	Author: "John Doe",	CODE
LOW	report/template_test.go	61	Author: "John Doe",	CODE
LOW	report/json_test.go	25	Author: "John Doe",	CODE
LOW	report/junit_test.go	36	Author: "John Doe",	CODE
LOW	report/csv_test.go	35	Author: "John Doe",	CODE
LOW	report/sarif_test.go	40	Author: "John Doe",	CODE

Over-Commented Block22 hits · 22 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	README.md	241		COMMENT
LOW	README.md	261	# appended and can contain duplicates.	COMMENT
LOW	detect/detect_test.go	61	secret=6465636F6465642D7365637265742D76616C756576484558	COMMENT
LOW	detect/reader.go	41	// StreamDetectReader streams the detection results from the provided io.Reader.	COMMENT
LOW	detect/reader.go	61	// findingsCh, errCh := detector.StreamDetectReader(myReader, 64) // using 64 KB buffer size	COMMENT
LOW	cmd/detect.go	1	// The `detect` and `protect` command is now deprecated. Here are some equivalent commands	COMMENT
LOW	cmd/generate/config/utils/generate.go	121	// TODO: "php - null coalesce": `${i}Token ??= "{s}"`,	COMMENT
LOW	cmd/generate/config/rules/curl.go	121	// Short flag.	COMMENT
LOW	cmd/generate/config/rules/1password.go	41	return utils.Validate(r, tps, fps)	COMMENT
LOW	cmd/generate/config/rules/sentry.go	21	},	COMMENT
LOW	cmd/generate/config/base/config.go	41	// ----------- Interpolated Variables -----------	COMMENT
LOW	config/gitleaks.toml	1	# This file has been auto-generated. Do not edit manually.	COMMENT
LOW	config/allowlist.go	41		COMMENT
LOW	scripts/profile.sh	1	#! /usr/bin/env bash	COMMENT
LOW	sources/git_test.go	1	package sources	COMMENT
LOW	sources/git_test.go	21	// source: filepath.Join(repoBasePath, "small"),	COMMENT
LOW	sources/git_test.go	41	// }	COMMENT
LOW	sources/git_test.go	61	// t.Error("expected: ", expected, "got: ", diffSb.String())	COMMENT
LOW	sources/git_test.go	81	// err := moveDotGit("dotGit", ".git")	COMMENT
LOW	sources/git_test.go	101		COMMENT
LOW	sources/git_test.go	121		COMMENT
LOW	sources/git_test.go	141	// os.RemoveAll(fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s/%s", repoBasePath, dir.Name(), ".git"))	COMMENT

Cross-File Repetition3 hits · 15 pts

Severity	File	Snippet	Context
HIGH	testdata/config/valid/rule_entropy_group.toml	(?i)(discord[a-z0-9_ .\-,]{0,25})(=\|>\|:=\|\\|\\|:\|<=\|=>\|:).{0,5}['\"]([a-h0-9]{64})['\"]	STRING
HIGH	testdata/config/invalid/rule_bad_entropy_group.toml	(?i)(discord[a-z0-9_ .\-,]{0,25})(=\|>\|:=\|\\|\\|:\|<=\|=>\|:).{0,5}['\"]([a-h0-9]{64})['\"]	STRING
HIGH	testdata/config/invalid/rule_missing_id.toml	(?i)(discord[a-z0-9_ .\-,]{0,25})(=\|>\|:=\|\\|\\|:\|<=\|=>\|:).{0,5}['\"]([a-h0-9]{64})['\"]	STRING

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	cmd/generate/config/rules/huggingface.go	105	`def test_internal_api_org_inclusion_with_href(api_name, href, expected, monkeypatch, called_with):	CODE