AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

kubernetes/community

SlopCodeMonitor badge for kubernetes/community Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

Kubernetes Community Documentation

0.5 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for kubernetes/community, a Jupyter Notebook project with 13,050 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 208,187 lines of code across 1045 source files, recording 49 pattern matches distributed across 10 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.5 (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.

0.5
Adjusted Signal
0.5
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-29
Last Push
13.1K
Stars
Jupyter Notebook
Language
208.2K
Lines of Code
1.0K
Files
49
Pattern Hits
2026-10-31
Scan Date
0.01
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 2.3/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 46 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.2/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 3 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.2/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 8 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 2.5/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 49 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 8MEDIUM 8LOW 33

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 49 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.

AI Response Leakage3 hits · 22 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGH…experience/meeting-notes-archive/2019-meeting-notes.md848 * #aus-nz-users may want to have a #aus-nz-dev channel? I will create one for themCOMMENT
HIGH…experience/meeting-notes-archive/2019-meeting-notes.md3785 * #aus-nz-users may want to have a #aus-nz-dev channel? I will create one for themCOMMENT
HIGHsig-node/archive/meeting-notes-2022.md2523* [pacoxu] [Quotas for Ephemeral Storage #1029](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/1029) Fixed a bug and COMMENT
Synthetic Comment Markers4 hits · 20 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHgithub-management/github-moderation.md34See [Linux Foundation guidance](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai) on generative AI and the KubernetesCODE
HIGHgithub-management/github-moderation.md34See [Linux Foundation guidance](https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/generative-ai) on generative AI and the KubernetesCODE
HIGHcontributors/devel/sig-architecture/api_changes.md916The auto-generated code resides with each versioned API:CODE
HIGHcontributors/guide/pull-requests.md638[Large AI generated](#large-or-automatic-edits) PRs and AI generated commit messages are not allowed.CODE
Over-Commented Block16 hits · 16 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWhack/verify-generated-docs.sh1#!/usr/bin/env bashCOMMENT
LOWhack/verify.sh1#!/usr/bin/env bashCOMMENT
LOWhack/generate-devstats-repo-sql.py1#!/usr/bin/env python3COMMENT
LOWhack/verify-spelling.sh1#!/usr/bin/env bashCOMMENT
LOWhack/verify-steering-election.sh1#!/usr/bin/env bashCOMMENT
LOW…sig-instrumentation/migration-to-structured-logging.md121// >> klog.InfoS("Pod status updated", "pod", klog.KObj(pod), "status", "ready")COMMENT
LOW…sig-instrumentation/migration-to-structured-logging.md141// ErrorSDepth acts as ErrorS but uses depth to determine which call frame to log.COMMENT
LOWcontributors/devel/sig-architecture/api_changes.md241COMMENT
LOWcontributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md441// +requiredCOMMENT
LOWcontributors/devel/sig-node/node-declared-features.md101COMMENT
LOWelections/steering/2022/voters.yaml1# 2022 Steering Committee ElectionCOMMENT
LOWelections/steering/2025/voters.yaml1# 2025 Steering Committee ElectionCOMMENT
LOWelections/steering/documentation/template/voters.yaml1# {{YEAR}} Steering Committee ElectionCOMMENT
LOWelections/steering/2024/voters.yaml1# 2024 Steering Committee ElectionCOMMENT
LOWelections/steering/2026/voters.yaml1# 2026 Steering Committee ElectionCOMMENT
LOWelections/steering/2021/voters.yaml1# 2021 Steering Committee ElectionCOMMENT
Self-Referential Comments5 hits · 15 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMcommunication/slack-config/usergroups.yaml1# This file contains a top-level list of Slack User Groups.COMMENT
MEDIUMcommunication/slack-config/users.yaml1# This file contains an alphabetically sorted mapping of lowercase GitHubCOMMENT
MEDIUMcommunication/slack-config/sig-release/usergroups.yaml1# This file contains a list of all Slack User Groups that are managed by SIG Release.COMMENT
MEDIUM…nication/slack-config/sig-architecture/usergroups.yaml1# This file contains a list of all Slack User Groups that are managed by SIG Architecture.COMMENT
MEDIUMcommunication/slack-config/sig-node/usergroups.yaml1# This file contains a list of all Slack User Groups that are managed by SIG Node.COMMENT
Structural Annotation Overuse6 hits · 9 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWcontributors/guide/platforms.md30### Step 0: Engage with the communityCOMMENT
LOWcontributors/guide/platforms.md44### Step 1: BuildingCOMMENT
LOWcontributors/guide/platforms.md61### Step 2: TestingCOMMENT
LOWcontributors/guide/platforms.md87### Step 3: ReleasingCOMMENT
LOWcontributors/guide/platforms.md115### Step 4: FinishingCOMMENT
LOWcontributors/guide/owners.md87# WARNING: This use of 'labels' and 'filters' as siblings is invalid.COMMENT
Hyper-Verbose Identifiers8 hits · 8 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…r-experience/surveys/k8s_survey_analysis/plot_utils.py165def get_multi_year_data_subset(CODE
LOW…r-experience/surveys/k8s_survey_analysis/plot_utils.py198def get_single_year_data_subset(survey_data, topic, facet_by=[]):CODE
LOW…r-experience/surveys/k8s_survey_analysis/plot_utils.py231def make_bar_chart_multi_year(CODE
LOW…r-experience/surveys/k8s_survey_analysis/plot_utils.py324def make_single_bar_chart_multi_year(survey_data, column, facet, proportionally=False):CODE
LOW…r-experience/surveys/k8s_survey_analysis/plot_utils.py383def make_likert_chart_multi_year(CODE
LOW…experience/surveys/k8s_survey_analysis/prepare_2019.py14def map_blocker_and_usefreq_vals(val):CODE
LOW…experience/surveys/k8s_survey_analysis/prepare_2019.py86 def map_blocker_and_usefreq_vals(val):CODE
LOWhack/generate-devstats-repo-sql.py153def write_repo_groups_template(name, repos, fp):CODE
Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary3 hits · 7 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMsigs.yaml2463 - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/kube-agentic-networking/main/OWNERSCODE
MEDIUMsig-network/README.md127### kube-agentic-networkingCOMMENT
MEDIUMsig-network/README.md129 - [kubernetes-sigs/kube-agentic-networking](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kube-agentic-networking/blob/main/OWNERCODE
Cross-Language Confusion1 hit · 5 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHhack/generate-devstats-repo-sql.py53-- update gha_repos set repo_group = 'Other' where repo_group is null;CODE
Unused Imports2 hits · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…r-experience/surveys/k8s_survey_analysis/plot_utils.py7CODE
LOWhack/generate-devstats-repo-sql.py33CODE
Deep Nesting1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…experience/surveys/k8s_survey_analysis/prepare_2019.py20CODE