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nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua

A file explorer tree for neovim written in lua

36.4 High pattern signal View on GitHub

Maintenance and Governance Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for nvim-tree/nvim-tree.lua, a Lua project with 8,657 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 21,719 lines of code across 141 source files, recording 55 pattern matches distributed across 1 syntactic category. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 36.4 (High 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.

36.4
Adjusted Signal
36.4
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-09
Last Push
8.7K
Stars
Lua
Language
21.7K
Lines of Code
141
Files
55
Pattern Hits
2026-10-12
Scan Date
0.39
HC Hit Rate

Risk Review · v3

Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.

Cognitive Ownership Risk 0.0/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 0 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 83.8/100 · CRITICAL

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 55 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 71.8/100 · HIGH

Which changes need focused human review? 55 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 55HIGH 0MEDIUM 0LOW 0

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 55 distinct pattern matches across 1 syntactic category. 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.

Hallucination Indicators55 hits · 790 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
CRITICALlua/nvim-tree/_meta/config/filters.lua12---`I `{git_ignored}` `|nvim_tree.api.filter.git.ignored.toggle()|CODE
CRITICALlua/nvim-tree/_meta/config/filters.lua18---`C `{git_clean}` `|nvim_tree.api.filter.git.clean.toggle()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua181function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.diagnostics.next(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua187function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.diagnostics.next_recursive(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua193function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.diagnostics.prev(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua199function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.diagnostics.prev_recursive(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua207function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.next(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua213function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.next_recursive(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua219function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.next_skip_gitignored(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua225function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.prev(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua231function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.prev_recursive(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua237function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.prev_skip_gitignored(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua245function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.opened.next(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua251function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.opened.prev(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua259function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.first(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua265function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.last(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua271function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.next(node) endCODE
CRITICAL⚡lua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/node.lua277function nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.prev(node) endCODE
CRITICALlua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/tree.lua235---@deprecated use `nvim_tree.api.filter.git.ignored.toggle()`CODE
CRITICALlua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/tree.lua238---@deprecated use `nvim_tree.api.filter.git.clean.toggle()`CODE
CRITICALlua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/filter.lua28function nvim_tree.api.filter.git.clean.toggle() endCODE
CRITICALlua/nvim-tree/_meta/api/filter.lua35function nvim_tree.api.filter.git.ignored.toggle() endCODE
CRITICALlua/nvim-tree/actions/node/open-file.lua243 target_winid = config.g.actions.open_file.window_picker.picker()CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2662 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.diagnostics.next()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2669 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.diagnostics.next_recursive()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2677 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.diagnostics.prev()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2684 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.diagnostics.prev_recursive()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2698 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.next_recursive()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2706 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.next_skip_gitignored()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2719 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.prev_recursive()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2727 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.prev_skip_gitignored()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2734 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.opened.next()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2741 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.opened.prev()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2761 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.first()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2768 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.last()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2775 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.next()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2782 *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.prev()*COMMENT
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt124 `>` n Next Sibling |nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.next()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt125 `<` n Previous Sibling |nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.prev()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt134 `C` n Toggle Filter: Git Clean |nvim_tree.api.filter.git.clean.toggle()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt135 `[c` n Prev Git |nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.prev()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt136 `]c` n Next Git |nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.next()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt141 `]e` n Next Diagnostic |nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.diagnostics.next()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt142 `[e` n Prev Diagnostic |nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.diagnostics.prev()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt149 `I` n Toggle Filter: Git Ignored |nvim_tree.api.filter.git.ignored.toggle()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt150 `J` n Last Sibling |nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.last()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt151 `K` n First Sibling |nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.sibling.first()|CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2692navigate.git.next({node}) *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.next()*CODE
CRITICAL⚡doc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2713navigate.git.prev({node}) *nvim_tree.api.node.navigate.git.prev()*CODE
CRITICALdoc/nvim-tree-lua.txt921`api.tree.toggle_gitignore_filter` |nvim_tree.api.filter.git.ignored.toggle()|CODE
CRITICALdoc/nvim-tree-lua.txt922`api.tree.toggle_git_clean_filter` |nvim_tree.api.filter.git.clean.toggle()|CODE
CRITICALdoc/nvim-tree-lua.txt1589 `I `{git_ignored}` `|nvim_tree.api.filter.git.ignored.toggle()|CODE
CRITICALdoc/nvim-tree-lua.txt1595 `C `{git_clean}` `|nvim_tree.api.filter.git.clean.toggle()|CODE
CRITICALdoc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2392git.clean.toggle() *nvim_tree.api.filter.git.clean.toggle()*CODE
CRITICALdoc/nvim-tree-lua.txt2395git.ignored.toggle() *nvim_tree.api.filter.git.ignored.toggle()*CODE