AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

ish-app/ish

Name: ish-app/ish — 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).

Linux shell for iOS

3.0 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for ish-app/ish, a C project with 20,657 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 50,996 lines of code across 333 source files, recording 153 pattern matches distributed across 2 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 3.0 (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.

3.0

Adjusted Signal

3.0

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-24

Last Push

20.7K

Stars

Language

51.0K

Lines of Code

333

Files

153

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 14.0/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 153 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 14.1/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 153 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 152

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 153 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 Block152 hits · 152 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	xX_main_Xx.h	1	#include <string.h>	COMMENT
LOW	debug.h	1	#ifndef UTIL_DEBUG_H	COMMENT
LOW	debug.h	21	#define DEBUG_instr DEBUG_all	COMMENT
LOW	debug.h	41	#define TRACE_instr TRACE__NOP	COMMENT
LOW	debug.h	61	#define TRACE__NOP(msg, ...) if (log_override) { TRACE__(msg, ##__VA_ARGS__); }	COMMENT
LOW	debug.h	81	#if defined(__i386__) \|\| defined(__x86_64__)	COMMENT
LOW	misc.h	1	#ifndef MISC_H	COMMENT
LOW	misc.h	21	#define _str(x) #x	COMMENT
LOW	misc.h	41	#define forceinline inline __attribute__((always_inline))	COMMENT
LOW	misc.h	61	#if has_attribute(no_sanitize)	COMMENT
LOW	misc.h	121	typedef dword_t time_t_;	COMMENT
LOW	emu/float80.c	1	#include <assert.h>	COMMENT
LOW	emu/mmu.h	1	#ifndef EMU_CPU_MEM_H	COMMENT
LOW	emu/mmu.h	41	#endif	COMMENT
LOW	emu/interrupt.h	1	// Intel standard interrupts	COMMENT
LOW	emu/float80-test.c	1	#include <stdio.h>	COMMENT
LOW	emu/decode.h	1	#include "misc.h"	COMMENT
LOW	tools/undefined-flags.c	1	#include "emu/modrm.h"	COMMENT
LOW	tools/ptutil.c	1	#define _GNU_SOURCE	COMMENT
LOW	tools/vdso-transplant-main.c	1	// Run a process but replace the vdso with the one in the given file.	COMMENT
LOW	tools/ptraceomatic-config.h	1	#define VVAR_PAGES 4	COMMENT
LOW	tools/ptraceomatic.c	1	// Fun little utility that single-steps a program using ptrace and	COMMENT
LOW	tools/ptraceomatic.c	21	#include "fs/fd.h"	COMMENT
LOW	tools/fakefs.c	1	#include <errno.h>	COMMENT
LOW	tools/vdso-transplant.c	1	// Uses ptrace to overwrite the vdso of a running process.	COMMENT
LOW	tools/unicornomatic.c	1	// Runs a program simultaneously in ish and unicorn, single steps, and asserts	COMMENT
LOW	app/LinuxTTY.c	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/UpgradeRootViewController.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/AppGroup.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/LinuxInterop.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/PasteboardDevice.m	1	#include <string.h>	COMMENT
LOW	app/Roots.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/AboutViewController.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/AboutAppearanceViewController.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/AccessibilityFixes.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/Terminal.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/LinuxPTY.c	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/CurrentRoot.h	21	/// An integer representing the current major version of the apk repositories. An upgrade will be run if the number in /	COMMENT
LOW	app/LocationDevice.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/hook.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/ExceptionExfiltrator.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/iOSFS.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/PasteboardDeviceLinux.c	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/LinuxInterop.c	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/AppGroup.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/LinuxRoot.c	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/Terminal.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/AppDelegate.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/AppDelegate.m	21	#import "NSObject+SaneKVO.h"	COMMENT
LOW	app/RootsTableViewController.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/TerminalView.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/UserPreferences.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/hook.c	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/LocationDevice.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/TerminalViewController.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/CurrentRoot.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/IOSCalls.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/ExceptionExfiltrator.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/ThemesViewController.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	app/FileProvider/FileProviderExtension.m	1	//	COMMENT
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Self-Referential Comments1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	app/CurrentRoot.m	91	NSMutableData *repositoriesData = [@"# This file contains pinned repositories managed by iSH. If the /ish direct	CODE