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This report summarizes scanner evidence for ko-build/ko, a Go project with 8,563 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 13,104 lines of code across 151 source files, recording 102 pattern matches distributed across 2 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 7.8 (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.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 101 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 1 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 102 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 102 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.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | main.go | 1 | // Copyright 2020 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | cmd/help/main.go | 1 | // Copyright 2021 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/test.yaml | 1 | # Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/main.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/build-configs/caps.ko.yaml | 1 | # Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/build-configs/.ko.yaml | 1 | # Copyright 2021 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/build-configs/caps/cmd/main.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/build-configs/foo/cmd/main.go | 1 | // Copyright 2021 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/build-configs/bar/cmd/main.go | 1 | // Copyright 2021 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | test/build-configs/toolexec/cmd/main.go | 1 | // Copyright 2022 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/sbom/sbom.go | 1 | // Copyright 2022 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | internal/sbom/spdx.go | 1 | // Copyright 2021 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | hack/update-deps.sh | 1 | #!/usr/bin/env bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | hack/presubmit.sh | 1 | #!/usr/bin/env bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | hack/update-codegen.sh | 1 | #!/usr/bin/env bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | hack/tools.go | 1 | // Copyright 2021 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | hack/boilerplate/boilerplate.go.txt | 1 | // Copyright 2023 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | hack/boilerplate/boilerplate.sh.txt | 1 | #!/usr/bin/env bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/reference/ko_build.md | 21 | # If the import path is not provided, the current working directory is the | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/reference/ko_resolve.md | 21 | # --local and --preserve-import-paths were passed. | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/reference/ko_create.md | 21 | # When KO_DOCKER_REPO is ko.local, it is the same as if | COMMENT |
| LOW | docs/reference/ko_apply.md | 21 | # When KO_DOCKER_REPO is ko.local, it is the same as if | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/doc.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/resolve/resolve.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/resolve/selector.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/resolve/doc.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/resolve/resolve_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/resolve/selector_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/caps/new_file_caps_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/caps/caps_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/caps/gen.sh | 1 | #!/usr/bin/env bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/caps/caps_dd_test.go | 1 | // Generated file, do not edit. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/caps/caps.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/testing/fixed.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/testing/doc.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/testing/fixed_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/testing/daemon.go | 1 | // Copyright 2021 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/info_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/info_test.go | 21 | // in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/git.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/git.go | 21 | // in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/clone.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/clone.go | 21 | // in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/info.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/info.go | 21 | // in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/errors.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/errors.go | 21 | // in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/gittesting/git.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/gittesting/git.go | 21 | // in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/gittesting/git_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2024 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/internal/gittesting/git_test.go | 21 | // in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/publish/kind.go | 1 | // Copyright 2020 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/publish/options.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/publish/future_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/publish/multi_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2020 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/publish/multi.go | 1 | // Copyright 2020 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/publish/recorder.go | 1 | // Copyright 2021 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/publish/default_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2018 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/publish/layout.go | 1 | // Copyright 2020 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/publish/recorder_test.go | 1 | // Copyright 2021 ko Build Authors All Rights Reserved. | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | pkg/internal/git/info_test.go | 145 | require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(testFile.Name(), []byte("lorem ipsum"), 0o644)) | CODE |