AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

haskell/cabal

Name: haskell/cabal — Haskell Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
Creator: AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

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

Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install

0.5 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for haskell/cabal, a Haskell project with 1,749 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 99,145 lines of code across 400 source files, recording 32 pattern matches distributed across 10 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.5 (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.

0.5

Adjusted Signal

0.5

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-31

Last Push

1.7K

Stars

Haskell

Language

99.1K

Lines of Code

400

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 1.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 21 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.3/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 7 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.7/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 5 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 2.4/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 32 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 2MEDIUM 3LOW 27

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 32 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.

Over-Commented Block11 hits · 11 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	fix-whitespace.yaml	1	# This file contains the project-specific settings for `fix-whitespace` a tiny	COMMENT
LOW	.gitlab/ci.sh	81	esac	COMMENT
LOW	cabal-testsuite/PackageTests/CCompilerOverride/foo.c	1		COMMENT
LOW	…PackageTests/FFI/ForeignOptsPgmc/scripts/cc-wrapper.sh	1	#!/bin/sh	COMMENT
LOW	…suite/PackageTests/FFI/ForeignOptsCxx/cxxbits/cxxlib.h	1	#ifndef CXXLIB_H	COMMENT
LOW	…uite/PackageTests/FFI/CppOptionsOnlyForHs/cbits/clib.c	1	#ifdef SUPPORT_SSE	COMMENT
LOW	…kageTests/FFI/ForeignOptsPgmcxx/scripts/cxx-wrapper.sh	1	#!/bin/sh	COMMENT
LOW	…estsuite/PackageTests/Regression/T4720/bug/cbits/bug.c	1	#include <stdlib.h>	COMMENT
LOW	.github/workflows/reusable-release.yml	441	# TARBALL_EXT: tar.xz	COMMENT
LOW	.github/workflows/validate.yml	381	# It builds with the executable produced by the validate job above.	COMMENT
LOW	templates/cabal_macros.template.h	21	#ifndef MIN_TOOL_VERSION_{{ mangleStr tool.name }}	COMMENT

Empty Error Handlers2 hits · 10 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	bootstrap/bootstrap.py	328	except:	CODE
HIGH	doc/cabaldomain.py	900	except KeyError:	CODE

Self-Referential Comments2 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	fix-whitespace.yaml	1	# This file contains the project-specific settings for `fix-whitespace` a tiny	COMMENT
MEDIUM	doc/conf.py	5	# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its	COMMENT

Deep Nesting5 hits · 5 pts

Severity	File	Line	Context
LOW	bootstrap/bootstrap.py	143	CODE
LOW	bootstrap/bootstrap.py	309	CODE
LOW	doc/cabaldomain.py	790	CODE
LOW	doc/cabaldomain.py	820	CODE
LOW	doc/cabaldomain.py	679	CODE

Unused Imports5 hits · 5 pts

Severity	File	Line	Context
LOW	doc/conf.py	10	CODE
LOW	doc/conf.py	164	CODE
LOW	doc/conf.py	197	CODE
LOW	doc/cabaldomain.py	124	CODE
LOW	doc/cabaldomain.py	127	CODE

Decorative Section Separators1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	.gitlab/common.sh	2	# ----------------------	COMMENT

Slop Phrases2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	.gitlab/brew.sh	17	# make sure to not pollute the machine with temp files etc	COMMENT
LOW	scripts/release/download-gh-artifacts.sh	38	echo "And don't forget to finalize the release at https://github.com/stable-haskell/cabal/releases/tag/cabal-install-v${	CODE

Fake / Example Data2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	cabal-testsuite/PackageTests/SDist/T7028/pkg/data.txt	1	Lorem Ipsum	CODE
LOW	cabal-testsuite/PackageTests/SDist/T7124/pkg-a/data.txt	1	Lorem Ipsum	CODE

Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping1 hit · 0 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	bootstrap/bootstrap.py	152	except Exception as e:	STRING

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers1 hit · 0 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	bootstrap/bootstrap.py	337	def make_distribution_archive(cabal_path):	STRING