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hykilpikonna/hyfetch

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9.2 Moderate pattern signal View on GitHub

Maintenance and Governance Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for hykilpikonna/hyfetch, a Shell project with 2,121 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 11,714 lines of code across 73 source files, recording 60 pattern matches distributed across 10 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 9.2 (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.

9.2
Adjusted Signal
9.2
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-11
Last Push
2.1K
Stars
Shell
Language
11.7K
Lines of Code
73
Files
60
Pattern Hits
2026-10-12
Scan Date
0.12
HC Hit Rate

Risk Review · v3

Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.

Cognitive Ownership Risk 9.3/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 13 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 12.8/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 28 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 20.6/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 20 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 39.3/100 · MEDIUM

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 9MEDIUM 6LOW 45

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 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.

Empty Error Handlers6 hits · 30 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHtools/list_distros.py73except AssertionError:CODE
HIGHhyfetch/pride_month.py117except KeyboardInterrupt:CODE
HIGHhyfetch/main.py79except:CODE
HIGHhyfetch/main.py487except ModuleNotFoundError:CODE
HIGHhyfetch/termenv.py138except IOError:CODE
HIGHhyfetch/distros/distro_detector.py39except Exception:CODE
Unused Imports27 hits · 27 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtools/list_distros.py6CODE
LOWtools/list_distros.py8CODE
LOWtools/list_distros.py13CODE
LOWtools/list_distros.py14CODE
LOWhyfetch/models.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/presets.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/constants.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/constants.py9CODE
LOWhyfetch/color_util.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/color_util.py7CODE
LOWhyfetch/__init__.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/__version__.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/neofetch_util.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/pride_month.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/color_scale.py6CODE
LOWhyfetch/rs.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/serializer.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/main.py2CODE
LOWhyfetch/main.py18CODE
LOWhyfetch/main.py21CODE
LOWhyfetch/main.py486CODE
LOWhyfetch/termenv.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/__main__.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/py.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/font_logo.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/distros/distro_detector.py1CODE
LOWhyfetch/distros/__init__.py1CODE
Decorative Section Separators4 hits · 12 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMtools/build_pkg.sh30# =================COMMENT
MEDIUMtools/build_pkg.sh74# =================COMMENT
MEDIUMhyfetch/color_util.py12 # ==========================COMMENT
MEDIUMhyfetch/color_util.py25 # ============================================COMMENT
Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping9 hits · 11 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtools/release.py272 except Exception as exc:CODE
LOWhyfetch/neofetch_util.py77 except Exception:CODE
LOWhyfetch/main.py299 except Exception:CODE
LOWhyfetch/main.py433 except Exception as e:CODE
MEDIUMhyfetch/main.py596 print(f'Error: {err}')CODE
LOWhyfetch/main.py617 except Exception as e:CODE
MEDIUMhyfetch/main.py618 print(f'Error: {e}')CODE
LOWhyfetch/termenv.py167 except Exception:CODE
LOWhyfetch/distros/distro_detector.py39 except Exception:CODE
Synthetic Comment Markers2 hits · 10 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHREADME.md248(changelog is generated by Gemini from commit history)CODE
HIGHREADME.md296(changelog is generated by Gemini from commit history)CODE
Redundant / Tautological Comments4 hits · 6 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWhyfetch/main.py378 # Check if fastfetch is installedCOMMENT
LOWhyfetch/main.py381 # Check if qwqfetch is installed (if the qwqfetch module can be imported)COMMENT
LOWhyfetch/main.py521 # Check if user provided alternative config pathCOMMENT
LOWhyfetch/main.py532 # Check if it's June (pride month)COMMENT
Magic Placeholder Names1 hit · 5 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHtools/gh_moderator.example.toml12key = "your-api-key"CODE
Over-Commented Block3 hits · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWrustfmt.toml1edition = "2021"COMMENT
LOWtools/pull_request_markings.yaml1# Pull request that I don't plan on merging, or already merged pull request that the script didn'tCOMMENT
LOWcrates/hyfetch/src/color_util.rs101/// neofetch ascii art.COMMENT
Deep Nesting3 hits · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWhyfetch/pride_month.py22CODE
LOWhyfetch/pride_month.py61CODE
LOWhyfetch/main.py41CODE
Hyper-Verbose Identifiers1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWhyfetch/main.py158 def select_preset_prompt_toolkit() -> str:CODE