AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

htop-dev/htop

Name: htop-dev/htop — C 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).

htop - an interactive process viewer

1.8 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for htop-dev/htop, a C project with 8,434 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 51,742 lines of code across 305 source files, recording 89 pattern matches distributed across 2 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.8 (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.

1.8

Adjusted Signal

1.8

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-19

Last Push

8.4K

Stars

Language

51.7K

Lines of Code

305

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 8.4/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 89 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.0/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 8.4/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 89 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 88

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 89 distinct pattern matches across 2 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 Block88 hits · 88 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	ProvideCurses.h	21	#elif defined(HAVE_NCURSES_NCURSES_H)	COMMENT
LOW	ProvideTerm.h	1	#ifndef HEADER_ProvideTerm	COMMENT
LOW	Debug.h	21	# define _Static_assert(expr, msg) \	COMMENT
LOW	BacktraceScreen.c	21	#include "FunctionBar.h"	COMMENT
LOW	Process.c	21	#include <sys/resource.h>	COMMENT
LOW	CRT.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	CRT.c	21	#include <unistd.h>	COMMENT
LOW	CRT.c	41	# define PRINT_BACKTRACE	COMMENT
LOW	Machine.h	1	#ifndef HEADER_Machine	COMMENT
LOW	CategoriesPanel.c	21	#include "HeaderLayout.h"	COMMENT
LOW	ScreensPanel.h	1	#ifndef HEADER_ScreensPanel	COMMENT
LOW	CommandLine.c	21	#include <stdlib.h>	COMMENT
LOW	RichString.h	21	(this).chptr = (this).chstr; \	COMMENT
LOW	XUtils.h	1	#ifndef HEADER_XUtils	COMMENT
LOW	TasksMeter.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	Meter.h	1	#ifndef HEADER_Meter	COMMENT
LOW	Meter.h	81	/* Specifies how the meter is rendered in bar or graph mode:	COMMENT
LOW	Macros.h	21	#define MAXIMUM(a, b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))	COMMENT
LOW	Macros.h	41	#define SPACESHIP_NULLSTR(a, b) strcmp((a) ? (a) : "", (b) ? (b) : "")	COMMENT
LOW	Macros.h	61		COMMENT
LOW	Macros.h	81		COMMENT
LOW	Macros.h	101	#define ATTR_ACCESS3(mode, ref, size) __attribute__((access (mode, ref, size)))	COMMENT
LOW	Macros.h	121	// const char [2]' -> char const *	COMMENT
LOW	Settings.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	Settings.c	21	#include <unistd.h>	COMMENT
LOW	CRT.h	181	#define KEY_ALT(x) (KEY_F(64 - 26) + ((x) - 'A'))	COMMENT
LOW	XUtils.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	Action.c	21	#include "CommandScreen.h"	COMMENT
LOW	Action.c	41	#include "Scheduling.h"	COMMENT
LOW	OpenFilesScreen.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	TraceScreen.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	Row.h	101	#define Row_isHighlighted(r_) (As_Row(r_)->isHighlighted ? (As_Row(r_)->isHighlighted(r_)) : false)	COMMENT
LOW	Meter.c	21	#include "Object.h"	COMMENT
LOW	dragonflybsd/Platform.c	21	#include <sys/time.h>	COMMENT
LOW	dragonflybsd/DragonFlyBSDMachine.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	dragonflybsd/DragonFlyBSDProcessTable.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	dragonflybsd/DragonFlyBSDProcessTable.c	41	DragonFlyBSDProcessTable* this = (DragonFlyBSDProcessTable*) cast;	COMMENT
LOW	dragonflybsd/Platform.h	1	#ifndef HEADER_Platform	COMMENT
LOW	dragonflybsd/DragonFlyBSDMachine.h	1	#ifndef HEADER_DragonFlyBSDMachine	COMMENT
LOW	netbsd/NetBSDMachine.c	21	#include <sys/mount.h>	COMMENT
LOW	netbsd/NetBSDProcessTable.c	21	#include <sys/mount.h>	COMMENT
LOW	netbsd/Platform.c	21	#include <kvm.h>	COMMENT
LOW	netbsd/Platform.c	41	#include "FileDescriptorMeter.h"	COMMENT
LOW	netbsd/Platform.h	21	#include "DiskIOMeter.h"	COMMENT
LOW	unsupported/Platform.h	1	#ifndef HEADER_Platform	COMMENT
LOW	pcp/Platform.c	21	#include "CPUMeter.h"	COMMENT
LOW	pcp/Platform.c	41	#include "XUtils.h"	COMMENT
LOW	pcp/PCPProcessTable.c	21	#include "Machine.h"	COMMENT
LOW	pcp/Platform.h	21	#undef PACKAGE_NAME	COMMENT
LOW	freebsd/Platform.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	freebsd/Platform.c	21	#include <sys/param.h>	COMMENT
LOW	freebsd/FreeBSDProcessTable.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	freebsd/FreeBSDProcessTable.c	21	#include <sys/jail.h>	COMMENT
LOW	freebsd/FreeBSDMachine.c	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	freebsd/FreeBSDMachine.c	21	#include <sys/priority.h>	COMMENT
LOW	freebsd/Platform.h	1	#ifndef HEADER_Platform	COMMENT
LOW	linux/LinuxMachine.h	101	ZswapStats zswap;	COMMENT
LOW	linux/LinuxMachine.h	121	#define PROCARCSTATSFILE PROCDIR "/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats"	COMMENT
LOW	linux/LinuxProcess.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	linux/LinuxProcessTable.c	21	#include <stddef.h>	COMMENT
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Self-Referential Comments1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	check-pcp-style.sh	41	# Define the required names	COMMENT