System-wide ad-blocker and privacy guard for Windows, macOS and Linux.
This report summarizes scanner evidence for irbis-sh/zen-desktop, a Go project with 4,336 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 82,393 lines of code across 482 source files, recording 73 pattern matches distributed across 6 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.1 (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.
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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 61 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 12 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 26 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 73 finding(s).
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.
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.
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.
The scanner identified 73 distinct pattern matches across 6 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.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | frontend/wailsjs/go/app/App.d.ts | 8 | export function HardwareKeyUnavailableReason():Promise<string>; | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/wailsjs/go/app/App.js | 9 | export function HardwareKeyUnavailableReason() { | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 103 | export function WindowSetSystemDefaultTheme(): void; | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 203 | export function WindowSetBackgroundColour(R: number, G: number, B: number, A: number): void; | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 290 | export function RequestNotificationAuthorization(): Promise<boolean>; | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 294 | export function CheckNotificationAuthorization(): Promise<boolean>; | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 302 | export function SendNotificationWithActions(options: NotificationOptions): Promise<void>; | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 306 | export function RegisterNotificationCategory(category: NotificationCategory): Promise<void>; | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 310 | export function RemoveNotificationCategory(categoryId: string): Promise<void>; | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 314 | export function RemoveAllPendingNotifications(): Promise<void>; | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 318 | export function RemovePendingNotification(identifier: string): Promise<void>; | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 322 | export function RemoveAllDeliveredNotifications(): Promise<void>; | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 326 | export function RemoveDeliveredNotification(identifier: string): Promise<void>; | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 76 | export function WindowSetSystemDefaultTheme() { | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 164 | export function WindowSetBackgroundColour(R, G, B, A) { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 256 | export function RequestNotificationAuthorization() { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 260 | export function CheckNotificationAuthorization() { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 268 | export function SendNotificationWithActions(options) { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 272 | export function RegisterNotificationCategory(category) { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 276 | export function RemoveNotificationCategory(categoryId) { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 280 | export function RemoveAllPendingNotifications() { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 284 | export function RemovePendingNotification(identifier) { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 288 | export function RemoveAllDeliveredNotifications() { | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.js | 292 | export function RemoveDeliveredNotification(identifier) { | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/main.tsx | 12 | (function polyfillCountryFlagEmojis() { | CODE |
| LOW | jslibs/scriptlets/src/helpers/storage.ts | 30 | export function validateUntrustedStorageValue(value: string): string { | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | frontend/wailsjs/runtime/runtime.d.ts | 101 | // *Windows only* | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/app/filter.go | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | internal/proxy/clienthello.go | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | internal/proxy/clienthello.go | 61 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/asset/extendedcss/extendedcss.go | 1 | package extendedcss | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/asset/scriptlet/parseargs.go | 1 | package scriptlet | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/systray/systray_linux.c | 21 | // libappindicator3) is loaded at runtime via dlopen instead of being linked at | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/hwkey/keychain_darwin.h | 1 | #ifndef ZEN_HWKEY_KEYCHAIN_DARWIN_H | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/hwkey/hwkey.go | 1 | // Package hwkey keeps ECDSA P-256 signing keys in the device's key hardware: the Secure Enclave | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/hwkey/syscall_windows.go | 1 | package hwkey | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/constants/constants.go | 1 | package constants | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/constants/constants.go | 21 | // list fetches already reveal an ad blocker to the network. A record | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/ruletree/tokenize.go | 1 | package ruletree | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/filterliststore/filterliststore.go | 21 | ) | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/filterliststore/filterliststore.go | 161 | }, nil | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/filterliststore/filterliststore.go | 281 | st.flightMu.Unlock() | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/filterliststore/cachingreader.go | 21 | // ErrEmptyBody reports a body that ended cleanly without a single byte. | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/fetchmeta/fetchmeta.go | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | internal/filter/filter.go | 281 | // A property of the response, not a broken stream: zero rules | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/filter/directives.go | 1 | package filter | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/filter/directives.go | 21 | // would also drop the browser-extension rules that Zen can run. Revisit once | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/networkrules/rule/rule.go | 21 | FilterName *string | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/external/linux-proxy-conf.md | 1 | # How to configure proxy on Linux | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/FUNDING.yml | 1 | # These are supported funding model platforms | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/scorecard.yml | 41 | - name: "Run analysis" | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/kk-KZ.json | 153 | "placeholder": "Мұнда клиент ережелерін қосыңыз..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/it-IT.json | 153 | "placeholder": "Aggiungi qui le tue regole personalizzate..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/ja-JP.json | 153 | "placeholder": "ここにカスタムルールを追加してください..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/zh-CN.json | 153 | "placeholder": "在此添加您的自定义规则..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/tr-TR.json | 153 | "placeholder": "Özel kurallarınızı buraya ekleyin..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu-HU.json | 153 | "placeholder": "Ide írd az egyéni szabályaidat..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/de-DE.json | 153 | "placeholder": "Fügen Sie hier Ihre eigenen Regeln hinzu..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/fr-FR.json | 153 | "placeholder": "Ajoutez vos règles personnalisées ici..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/zh-TW.json | 153 | "placeholder": "在此新增您的自訂規則..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/ru-RU.json | 153 | "placeholder": "Добавьте свои персональные правила здесь..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/en-US.json | 153 | "placeholder": "Add your custom rules here..." | CODE |
| LOW | frontend/src/i18n/locales/vi-VN.json | 153 | "placeholder": "Thêm quy tắc tùy chỉnh của bạn vào đây..." | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW⚡ | docs/how-to/localization-guide.md | 28 | ### Step 1: Fork the repository | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | docs/how-to/localization-guide.md | 32 | ### Step 2: Set up your development environment | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | docs/how-to/localization-guide.md | 37 | ### Step 3: Create new translation files | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | docs/how-to/localization-guide.md | 43 | ### Step 4: Update the i18n configuration | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/how-to/localization-guide.md | 100 | ### Step 5: Test your translations | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/how-to/localization-guide.md | 107 | ### Step 6: Submit a Pull Request | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | internal/app/app.go | 143 | // TODO: implement a more reliable solution. | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/proxy/proxy.go | 170 | // TODO: implement websocket shutdown | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/proxy/proxy.go | 321 | // TODO: implement upstream certificate sniffing | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | .github/workflows/update-changelog.yml | 27 | # Create the new changelog entry, preserving the "# Changelog" header | COMMENT |