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hpjansson/chafa

Name: hpjansson/chafa — C Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
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Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

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0.7 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for hpjansson/chafa, a C project with 5,371 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 89,917 lines of code across 200 source files, recording 60 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.7 (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.

0.7

Adjusted Signal

0.7

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-19

Last Push

5.4K

Stars

Language

89.9K

Lines of Code

200

Files

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 3.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 57 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.1/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 2 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.1/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 1 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.4/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 60 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 1LOW 59

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 60 distinct pattern matches across 5 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 Block55 hits · 55 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-media-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chafa.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chafa.c	41		COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-font-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-webp-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-path-queue.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-options.h	21	#define __CHICLE_OPTIONS_H__	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-options.h	41	#include <stdlib.h> /* exit */	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/qoi.h	301	#ifdef QOI_IMPLEMENTATION	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-qoi-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-file-mapping.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-file-mapping.c	41	#endif	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-png-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-heif-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-avif-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-svg-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-util.c	21	#include <stdarg.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-gif-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-xwd-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-coregraphics-loader.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-options.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-options.c	41		COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-jpeg-loader.c	21	#include <stdlib.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/chafa/chicle-tiff-loader.c	21	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tests/test-driver.sh	1	#! /bin/sh	COMMENT
LOW	tests/test-driver.sh	161	# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC0"	COMMENT
LOW	examples/adaptive.c	1	/* This file is in the public domain, and you are free to use it as you see fit.	COMMENT
LOW	lodepng/lodepng.h	101	disabled and provide a much smaller implementation externally as said above. You can find such an example implementation	COMMENT
LOW	lodepng/lodepng.c	41		COMMENT
LOW	lodepng/lodepng-apng.c	21	#define BYTES_PER_PIXEL 4	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-stream-writer.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-term.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-version-macros.h	21	#define __CHAFA_VERSION_MACROS_H__	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-version-macros.h	41	#define CHAFA_VERSION_1_12 (G_ENCODE_VERSION (1, 12))	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-version-macros.h	121		COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-version-macros.h	141	# define CHAFA_DEPRECATED_IN_1_2_FOR(f) G_DEPRECATED_FOR(f)	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-version-macros.h	161	#if CHAFA_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED < CHAFA_VERSION_1_4	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-version-macros.h	181	#if CHAFA_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED >= CHAFA_VERSION_1_8	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-version-macros.h	201	#endif	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-version-macros.h	221	#endif	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-version-macros.h	241	# define CHAFA_DEPRECATED_IN_1_16 _CHAFA_EXTERN	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-version-macros.h	261	#else	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-stream-reader.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa-canvas.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa.h	21	#define __CHAFA_H__	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/chafa.h	41	#include <chafa-util.h>	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/internal/chafa-symbol-renderer.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	chafa/internal/chafa-pixops.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	chafa/internal/chafa-color-table.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	chafa/internal/chafa-kitty-renderer.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	chafa/internal/chafa-private.h	21	#define __CHAFA_PRIVATE_H__	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/internal/smolscale/smolscale-private.h	21	extern "C" {	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/internal/smolscale/smolscale-private.h	41	# endif	COMMENT
LOW	chafa/internal/smolscale/smolscale-private.h	61		COMMENT
LOW	chafa/internal/smolscale/smolscale-private.h	81	#else	COMMENT

Self-Referential Comments1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	tests/test-driver.sh	26	# This file is maintained in Automake, please report	COMMENT

Unused Imports2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	tools/fontgen/chafa8x8.py	18		CODE
LOW	tools/fontgen/chafa8x8.py	116		CODE

Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	tools/fontgen/chafa8x8.py	365	except Exception as e:	CODE

Slop Phrases1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	lodepng/lodepng.c	83	lodepng source code. Don't forget to remove "static" if you copypaste them	CODE