An opinionated GoLang framework for accelerated microservice development. Built in support for databases and observability.
This report summarizes scanner evidence for gofr-dev/gofr, a Go project with 20,827 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 271,414 lines of code across 1030 source files, recording 327 pattern matches distributed across 10 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.4 (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? 290 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 27 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 12 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 327 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 327 distinct pattern matches across 10 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 |
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| LOW | docs/datasources/scylladb/page.md | 21 | with ScyllaDB. Any driver implementation that adheres to this interface can be integrated into GoFr using the | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/datasources/opentsdb/page.md | 21 | Implementations adhering to the `OpenTSDB` interface can be registered with `app.AddOpenTSDB()`, | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/datasources/opentsdb/page.md | 41 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/datasources/opentsdb/page.md | 61 | // - res: A pointer to QueryLastResponse, where the server's response will be stored. | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/datasources/opentsdb/page.md | 81 | // Parameters: | COMMENT |
| LOW | examples/using-migrations/main_test.go | 21 | "gofr.dev/pkg/gofr/testutil" | COMMENT |
| LOW | examples/sample-cmd/main_test.go | 81 | // setArgs replaces os.Args for the duration of the test and restores it | COMMENT |
| LOW | examples/http-server/main_test.go | 1 | package main | COMMENT |
| LOW | examples/using-s3-filestore/main_test.go | 201 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | examples/using-http-auth-middleware/ReadMe.md | 41 | a := gofr.New() | COMMENT |
| LOW | examples/using-http-auth-middleware/main_test.go | 61 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | examples/using-http-auth-middleware/main_test.go | 81 | // app := gofr.New() | COMMENT |
| LOW | examples/using-http-auth-middleware/main_test.go | 101 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | examples/using-http-auth-middleware/main_test.go | 121 | // app.GET("/basic-auth-failure", func(_ *gofr.Context) (any, error) { | COMMENT |
| LOW | examples/using-http-auth-middleware/main_test.go | 141 | // t.Errorf("error while making HTTP request in Test_BasicAuthMiddleware. err: %v", err) | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/dependabot.yml | 21 | schedule: | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/website-prod.yml | 101 | echo "TAG=$TAG" >> $GITHUB_ENV | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 61 | go-version: ['1.26','1.25', '1.24'] | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 301 | # Run tests for root gofr package. | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 341 | echo "::error::Gofr sub-packages tests failed" | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 421 | echo "Merging ${#submodule_profiles[@]} submodule profile(s) with Example and PKG" | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 521 | # script *text* before bash parses it, so an interpolated module path would be | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 541 | # in the runner and pass, then fail for anyone who clones it — | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 561 | # figure changes at all and the only one with any testing.Short | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 721 | # dgo. The stub has to keep implementing migrator, so a change to that | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 761 | # and the default lint job never sees them -- moving noopResponder and | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 781 | # another path, leaves every other step in this job green while the tag | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 841 | echo "gofr.dev/pkg/gofr links $full packages by default and $slim with all three tags" | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/website-stage.yml | 101 | run: | | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/website-pr.yml | 1 | name: Website Build Check | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/website-pr.yml | 61 | with: | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/scripts/check-binaries.sh | 1 | #!/usr/bin/env bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/actions/setup-go-toolchain/action.yml | 1 | name: Set up Go toolchain | COMMENT |
| LOW | .qlty/qlty.toml | 1 | # This file was automatically generated by `qlty init`. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/crud_helpers.go | 61 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/crud_helpers.go | 81 | // Every other rune -- digits, underscores, punctuation, non-ASCII -- passes through untouched. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/handler.go | 161 | err = gofrHTTP.ErrorClientClosedRequest{} | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/handler.go | 181 | // spawned goroutine and is free to reassign it (App.WebSocket does, to | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/gofr.go | 81 | // one outside the valid TCP range. It is recorded rather than acted on because EnableMCP runs | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/gofr.go | 101 | // exitCodeFailure is the status the process reports when a run failed: startup was abandoned (a | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/gofr.go | 341 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/gofr.go | 521 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/graphql_runner.go | 1 | package gofr | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/run.go | 61 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/run.go | 261 | // others' startup rather than cleanly stopping it. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/run.go | 341 | a.Logger().Errorf("Stopping startup: the RBAC route check failed and %s=%s.", rbacRouteCheckKey, rbacRouteCheckFail) | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/auth.go | 101 | // and the API key as arguments and should return `true` if the key is valid, `false` otherwise. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/grpc.go | 41 | errFailedCreateServer = errors.New("failed to create gRPC server") | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/websocket_test.go | 81 | // context.WithValue(ctx, ...) instead of context.WithValue(ctx.Context, ...). | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/websocket_test.go | 121 | _, message, err := ws.ReadMessage() | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/http_server.go | 21 | router *gofrHTTP.Router | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/rbac.go | 21 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/rest.go | 81 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/health.go | 21 | // Kubernetes guide ships readinessProbe.timeoutSeconds: 2, so a slower check is abandoned on every | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/health.go | 41 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/health.go | 61 | // which dependencies are critical is an application decision. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/health.go | 121 | // and rolling deploys — Kubernetes probes it repeatedly — so it should not flood logs as an error. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/health.go | 181 | return true | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/shutdown_test.go | 161 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/mcp.go | 81 | // less ambiguous mistake -- an occupied port can be a transient condition of the environment, while | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | docs/advanced-guide/authentication/page.md | 148 | - **Subject (`sub`)**: `jwt.WithSubject("user@example.com")` | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/crud_handlers_test.go | 332 | mockResp: sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"id", "name", "is_employed"}).AddRow(1, "John Doe", true).AddRow(2, "Jane Doe", f | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/crud_handlers_test.go | 332 | mockResp: sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"id", "name", "is_employed"}).AddRow(1, "John Doe", true).AddRow(2, "Jane Doe", f | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/crud_handlers_test.go | 334 | expectedResp: []any{&userEntity{ID: 1, Name: "John Doe", IsEmployed: true}, | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/crud_handlers_test.go | 335 | &userEntity{ID: 2, Name: "Jane Doe", IsEmployed: false}}, | CODE |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/crud_handlers_test.go | 422 | mockRow: sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"id", "name", "is_employed"}).AddRow(1, "John Doe", true), | CODE |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/crud_handlers_test.go | 424 | expectedResp: &userEntity{ID: 1, Name: "John Doe", IsEmployed: true}, | CODE |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/context_test.go | 329 | "name": "John Doe", | CODE |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/datasource/kv-store/dynamodb/dynamo_test.go | 334 | "name": "John Doe", | CODE |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/datasource/kv-store/dynamodb/dynamo_test.go | 342 | assert.Contains(t, jsonStr, "John Doe") | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/datasource/kv-store/dynamodb/dynamo_test.go | 357 | jsonStr := `{"name":"John Doe","age":30,"email":"john@example.com"}` | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/datasource/kv-store/dynamodb/dynamo_test.go | 363 | assert.Equal(t, "John Doe", result["name"]) | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/datasource/kv-store/dynamodb/dynamo_test.go | 369 | invalidJSON := `{"name":"John Doe","age":30,"email":}` | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/datasource/sql/query_builder_test.go | 27 | values: []any{"John Doe", 30}, | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/datasource/sql/query_builder_test.go | 35 | values: []any{"John Doe", 30}, | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/datasource/sql/query_builder_test.go | 43 | values: []any{1, "John Doe"}, | CODE |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/datasource/sql/query_builder_test.go | 54 | values: []any{1, "John Doe"}, | CODE |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/container/datasources.go | 81 | // err := c.Exec("INSERT INTO users VALUES(1, 'John Doe')") | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/container/datasources.go | 85 | // name := "John Doe" | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/container/datasources.go | 103 | // applied, err := c.ExecCAS(&user, "INSERT INTO users VALUES(1, 'John Doe') IF NOT EXISTS") | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/container/datasources.go | 130 | // c.BatchQuery("INSERT INTO users VALUES(1, 'John Doe')") | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/container/datasources.go | 135 | // name1 := "John Doe" | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/http/middleware/oauth_test.go | 65 | response: jwt.MapClaims{"admin": true, "iat": 1.516239022e+09, "name": "John Doe", "sub": "1234567890"}, | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/static/swagger-ui.js | 1 | !function webpackUniversalModuleDefinition(e,t){"object"==typeof exports&&"object"==typeof module?module.exports=t():"fu | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/static/swagger-ui.js | 1 | !function webpackUniversalModuleDefinition(e,t){"object"==typeof exports&&"object"==typeof module?module.exports=t():"fu | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/website-pr.yml | 6 | # --------------- | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/datasource/file/gcs/storage_adapter_test.go | 735 | // ─── helpers for signed-URL tests ─────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/datasource/file/gcs/storage_adapter_test.go | 782 | // ─── parseServiceAccountCredentials ───────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/datasource/file/gcs/storage_adapter_test.go | 830 | // ─── validatePrivateKey ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/datasource/file/gcs/storage_adapter_test.go | 857 | // ─── buildSignedURLOptions ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/datasource/file/gcs/storage_adapter_test.go | 903 | // ─── sanitizeContentDisposition ───────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/datasource/file/gcs/storage_adapter_test.go | 921 | // ─── rewriteSignedURLEndpoint ──────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/datasource/file/gcs/storage_adapter_test.go | 945 | // ─── NewWriterWithOptions ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/datasource/file/gcs/storage_adapter_test.go | 1011 | // ─── SignedURL ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/datasource/file/gcs/storage_adapter_test.go | 1122 | // ─── Connect with credentials caching ──────────────────────────────────────── | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | docs/guides/production-tracing/page.md | 111 | TRACER_HEADERS: "x-honeycomb-team=YOUR_API_KEY,x-honeycomb-dataset=orders" | CODE |
| HIGH | docs/quick-start/observability/page.md | 513 | TRACER_HEADERS="X-Honeycomb-Team=your_api_key" | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/go.yml | 48 | # Define the jobs that this workflow will run | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/go.yml | 58 | # Define a matrix strategy to test against multiple Go versions | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/go.yml | 509 | # Create a directory for coverage reports. Resolve it to an absolute path: | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/go.yml | 553 | # the mtest harness shipped by the mongo driver calls t.Skip with | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/datasource/pubsub/kafka/kafka_test.go | 794 | // stays robust if the order is revisited. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/gofr/migration/migration.go | 34 | // ensuring the lock stays robust while still allowing fairly quick recovery if a process crashes. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/go.yml | 349 | # admit: it is scaffolding for tests, not shipped behaviour, and at | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 937 | # Check if any files changed | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/go.yml | 958 | # Check if this module is not already in the list | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW⚡ | pkg/gofr/static/swagger-ui.js | 1 | !function webpackUniversalModuleDefinition(e,t){"object"==typeof exports&&"object"==typeof module?module.exports=t():"fu | CODE |
| LOW | pkg/gofr/static/swagger-ui-standalone-preset.js | 2 | !function webpackUniversalModuleDefinition(t,e){"object"==typeof exports&&"object"==typeof module?module.exports=e():"fu | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | pkg/gofr/gofr.go | 532 | // Example usage: | COMMENT |