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hykilpikonna/hyfetch

Name: hykilpikonna/hyfetch — Shell 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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8.9 Moderate pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for hykilpikonna/hyfetch, a Shell project with 2,142 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 12,426 lines of code across 73 source files, recording 62 pattern matches distributed across 10 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 8.9 (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.

8.9

Adjusted Signal

8.9

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-17

Last Push

2.1K

Stars

Shell

Language

12.4K

Lines of Code

Files

Pattern Hits

2026-10-31

Scan Date

0.12

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 9.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 14 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 12.1/100 · LOW

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

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 19.9/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 21 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 38.0/100 · MEDIUM

Which changes need focused human review? 62 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 47

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 62 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

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	tools/list_distros.py	73	except AssertionError:	CODE
HIGH	hyfetch/pride_month.py	117	except KeyboardInterrupt:	CODE
HIGH	hyfetch/main.py	98	except:	CODE
HIGH	hyfetch/main.py	727	except ModuleNotFoundError:	CODE
HIGH	hyfetch/termenv.py	138	except IOError:	CODE
HIGH	hyfetch/distros/distro_detector.py	39	except Exception:	CODE

Unused Imports27 hits · 27 pts

Severity	File	Line	Context
LOW	tools/list_distros.py	6	CODE
LOW	tools/list_distros.py	8	CODE
LOW	tools/list_distros.py	13	CODE
LOW	tools/list_distros.py	14	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/models.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/presets.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/constants.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/constants.py	9	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/color_util.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/color_util.py	7	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/__init__.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/__version__.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/neofetch_util.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/pride_month.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/color_scale.py	6	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/rs.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/serializer.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	2	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	19	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	23	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	726	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/termenv.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/__main__.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/py.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/font_logo.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/distros/distro_detector.py	1	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/distros/__init__.py	1	CODE

Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping10 hits · 12 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	tools/release.py	272	except Exception as exc:	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/neofetch_util.py	83	except Exception:	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	323	except Exception:	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	429	except Exception:	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	672	except Exception as e:	CODE
MEDIUM	hyfetch/main.py	836	print(f'Error: {err}')	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	858	except Exception as e:	CODE
MEDIUM	hyfetch/main.py	859	print(f'Error: {e}')	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/termenv.py	167	except Exception:	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/distros/distro_detector.py	39	except Exception:	CODE

Decorative Section Separators4 hits · 12 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	tools/build_pkg.sh	30	# =================	COMMENT
MEDIUM	tools/build_pkg.sh	74	# =================	COMMENT
MEDIUM	hyfetch/color_util.py	12	# ==========================	COMMENT
MEDIUM	hyfetch/color_util.py	25	# ============================================	COMMENT

Synthetic Comment Markers2 hits · 10 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	README.md	249	(changelog is generated by Gemini from commit history)	CODE
HIGH	README.md	297	(changelog is generated by Gemini from commit history)	CODE

Redundant / Tautological Comments4 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	617	# Check if fastfetch is installed	COMMENT
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	620	# Check if qwqfetch is installed (if the qwqfetch module can be imported)	COMMENT
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	761	# Check if user provided alternative config path	COMMENT
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	772	# Check if it's June (pride month)	COMMENT

Magic Placeholder Names1 hit · 5 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	tools/gh_moderator.example.toml	12	key = "your-api-key"	CODE

Deep Nesting4 hits · 4 pts

Severity	File	Line	Context
LOW	hyfetch/neofetch_util.py	170	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/pride_month.py	22	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/pride_month.py	61	CODE
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	60	CODE

Over-Commented Block3 hits · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	rustfmt.toml	1	edition = "2021"	COMMENT
LOW	tools/pull_request_markings.yaml	1	# Pull request that I don't plan on merging, or already merged pull request that the script didn't	COMMENT
LOW	crates/hyfetch/src/color_util.rs	101	/// neofetch ascii art.	COMMENT

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	hyfetch/main.py	182	def select_preset_prompt_toolkit() -> str:	CODE