generate release PRs based on the conventionalcommits.org spec
This report summarizes scanner evidence for googleapis/release-please, a TypeScript project with 7,611 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 73,785 lines of code across 426 source files, recording 352 pattern matches distributed across 6 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 5.0 (Moderate 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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 345 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 7 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 13 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 352 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 352 distinct pattern matches across 6 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 | owlbot.py | 1 | # Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | .mocharc.js | 1 | // Copyright 2020 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | .jsdoc.js | 1 | // Copyright 2019 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | .prettierrc.js | 1 | // Copyright 2020 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/commit-and-push.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2026 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/helpers.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2020 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/helpers.ts | 181 | // "master" TODO update all test code to use "main" | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/github.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2019 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/pr.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2026 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/main-pr-option-defaults.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2026 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/cli.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/cli.ts | 301 | sinon.assert.calledOnce(createPullRequestsStub); | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/cli.ts | 521 | // 'manifest-release --repo-url=googleapis/release-please-cli --release-as=2.3.4' | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/schemas.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/factory.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/local-github.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2026 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/branch.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2026 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/main-make-pr.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2026 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/fork.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2026 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2026 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/manifest.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/commits.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/commits.ts | 261 | 'update v2.14.1 gapic-generator-typescript' | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/version.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/bootstrapper.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/issues.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2026 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/versioning-strategies/dependency-manifest.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/versioning-strategies/prerelease.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2023 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/versioning-strategies/java-add-snapshot.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/versioning-strategies/default.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/versioning-strategies/always-bump-minor.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/versioning-strategies/always-bump-major.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/versioning-strategies/java.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/signoff-commit-message.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/pull-request-title.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/branch-name.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/coerce-option.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2019 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/pull-request-body.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/commit-split.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/filter-commits.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2023 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/pull-request-overflow-handler.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/tag-name.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/indent-commit.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2019 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/util/commit-exclude.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2023 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/plugins/maven-workspace.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/plugins/node-workspace.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/plugins/group-priority.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/plugins/sentence-case.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/plugins/cargo-workspace.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/plugins/merge.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/plugins/linked-versions.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | …gins/compatibility/separate-pull-requests-workspace.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2024 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | …t/plugins/compatibility/linked-versions-group-title.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/plugins/compatibility/linked-versions-workspace.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2022 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/strategies/rust.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/strategies/go-yoshi.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/strategies/helm.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/strategies/base.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/strategies/ruby-yoshi.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/strategies/terraform-module.ts | 1 | // Copyright 2021 Google LLC | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | test/helpers.ts | 46 | export function stubSuggesterWithSnapshot( | CODE |
| LOW | test/helpers.ts | 129 | export function buildMockConventionalCommit( | CODE |
| LOW | test/helpers.ts | 341 | export function buildMockCandidatePullRequest( | CODE |
| LOW | src/commit.ts | 64 | function getBlankConventionalCommit(): parser.ConventionalChangelogCommit { | CODE |
| LOW | src/commit.ts | 81 | function toConventionalChangelogFormat( | CODE |
| LOW | src/bin/release-please.ts | 288 | function pullRequestStrategyOptions(yargs: yargs.Argv): yargs.Argv { | CODE |
| LOW | src/plugins/workspace.ts | 487 | export function appendDependenciesSectionToChangelog( | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | src/factories/versioning-strategy-factory.ts | 63 | export function registerVersioningStrategy( | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | src/factories/versioning-strategy-factory.ts | 70 | export function unregisterVersioningStrategy(name: string) { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | src/factories/versioning-strategy-factory.ts | 74 | export function getVersioningStrategyTypes(): readonly VersioningStrategyType[] { | CODE |
| LOW | src/updaters/release-please-config.ts | 54 | function releaserConfigToJsonConfig( | CODE |
| LOW | src/updaters/ruby/common.ts | 48 | export function resolveRubyGemfileLockVersion(versionString: string) { | CODE |
| LOW | src/updaters/ruby/gemfile-lock.ts | 28 | export function buildGemfileLockVersionRegex(gemName: string) { | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | .kokoro/trampoline.sh | 16 | # This file is not used any more, but we keep this file for making it | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | .kokoro/populate-secrets.sh | 16 | # This file is called in the early stage of `trampoline_v2.sh` to | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | __snapshots__/cargo-lock.js | 2 | # This file is automatically @generated by Cargo. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | __snapshots__/cargo-lock.js | 18 | # This file is automatically @generated by Cargo. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | test/factory.ts | 44 | token: 'fake-token', | CODE |
| LOW | test/manifest.ts | 162 | token: 'fake-token', | CODE |
| LOW | test/bootstrapper.ts | 34 | token: 'fake-token', | CODE |
| LOW | test/factories/plugin-factory.ts | 37 | token: 'fake-token', | CODE |
| LOW | test/factories/changelog-notes-factory.ts | 36 | token: 'fake-token', | CODE |
| LOW | test/changelog-notes/github-changelog-notes.ts | 78 | token: 'fake-token', | CODE |
| LOW | __snapshots__/opam.js | 5 | maintainer: "example@example.org" | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | README.md | 142 | ### Step 1: Ensure releasable units are merged | COMMENT |
| LOW | README.md | 153 | ### Step 2: Ensure no `autorelease: pending` or `autorelease: triggered` label in an old PR | COMMENT |
| LOW | README.md | 171 | ### Step 3: Rerun Release Please | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | .kokoro/populate-secrets.sh | 29 | # For local run, we just use the gcloud command for retrieving the | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | src/plugins/maven-workspace.ts | 588 | // We use a fake commit to leverage the Java versioning strategy | COMMENT |