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open-source-parsers/jsoncpp

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A C++ library for interacting with JSON.

3.9 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for open-source-parsers/jsoncpp, a C++ project with 8,910 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 19,978 lines of code across 177 source files, recording 74 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 3.9 (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.

3.9
Adjusted Signal
3.9
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-26
Last Push
8.9K
Stars
C++
Language
20.0K
Lines of Code
177
Files
74
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 13.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 57 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 3.9/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 16 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 1.9/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 4 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 17.9/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 74 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 1MEDIUM 0LOW 73

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 74 distinct pattern matches across 5 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 Block47 hits · 47 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWCMakeLists.txt1# vim: et ts=4 sts=4 sw=4 tw=0COMMENT
LOWgcovr.cfg1# Newer versions of gcovr have strict function merging by default, whichCOMMENT
LOWtest/data/legacy_test_real_08.json1// Out of 32-bit integer range, switch to double in 32-bit mode. Length theCOMMENT
LOWtest/data/legacy_test_real_09.json1// Out of 64-bit integer range, switch to double in all modes. Length the sameCOMMENT
LOWtest/data/legacy_test_real_10.json1// Out of 32-bit signed integer range, switch to double in all modes. LengthCOMMENT
LOWtest/data/legacy_test_real_11.json1// Out of 64-bit signed integer range, switch to double in all modes. LengthCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/reader.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/version.h1#ifndef JSON_VERSION_H_INCLUDEDCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/version.h21#if !defined(JSONCPP_USE_SECURE_MEMORY)COMMENT
LOWinclude/json/assertions.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/config.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/config.h21#endifCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/config.h41COMMENT
LOWinclude/json/config.h61extern JSON_API int msvc_pre1900_c99_snprintf(char* outBuf, size_t size,COMMENT
LOWinclude/json/config.h81#elif defined(__GNUC__) // not clang (gcc comes later since clang emulates gcc)COMMENT
LOWinclude/json/value.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/value.h21#endifCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/value.h41COMMENT
LOWinclude/json/value.h461 /// \post type() is unchangedCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/value.h481 ///@{COMMENT
LOWinclude/json/value.h641#ifdef JSONCPP_HAS_STRING_VIEWCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/allocator.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/json.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/writer.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWinclude/json/writer.h361COMMENT
LOWinclude/json/json_features.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWdevtools/__init__.py1# Copyright 2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWdevtools/fixeol.py41## includes = '**/*.py **/wscript **/wscript_build',COMMENT
LOWdevtools/fixeol.py61## passCOMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/jsontest.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/jsontest.cpp1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/jsontest.cpp21#define NOMCXCOMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/jsontest.cpp41#define NOCOLORCOMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/jsontest.cpp61#define NOCLIPBOARDCOMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/jsontest.cpp341#if defined(_MSC_VER) && defined(_DEBUG)COMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/fuzz.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/fuzz.cpp1// Copyright 2007-2019 The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/main.cpp1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/main.cpp21#include <iterator>COMMENT
LOWsrc/test_lib_json/main.cpp41#define kuint32max Json::Value::maxUIntCOMMENT
LOWsrc/jsontestrunner/main.cpp1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/lib_json/json_writer.cpp1// Copyright 2011 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/lib_json/json_reader.cpp1// Copyright 2007-2011 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/lib_json/json_reader.cpp21#include <memory>COMMENT
LOWsrc/lib_json/json_tool.h1// Copyright 2007-2010 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/lib_json/json_value.cpp1// Copyright 2011 Baptiste Lepilleur and The JsonCpp AuthorsCOMMENT
LOWsrc/lib_json/json_value.cpp61// kNull must be word-aligned to avoid crashing on ARM. We use an alignment ofCOMMENT
Unused Imports16 hits · 16 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWdoxybuild.py3CODE
LOWdoxybuild.py4CODE
LOWtest/rununittests.py6CODE
LOWtest/rununittests.py7CODE
LOWtest/rununittests.py8CODE
LOWtest/rununittests.py9CODE
LOWtest/rununittests.py14CODE
LOWtest/pyjsontestrunner.py9CODE
LOWtest/generate_expected.py6CODE
LOWtest/runjsontests.py6CODE
LOWtest/runjsontests.py7CODE
LOWtest/runjsontests.py13CODE
LOWdevtools/antglob.py8CODE
LOWdevtools/batchbuild.py1CODE
LOWdevtools/fixeol.py6CODE
LOWdevtools/licenseupdater.py3CODE
Deep Nesting7 hits · 7 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWdoxybuild.py26CODE
LOWtest/pyjsontestrunner.py25CODE
LOWtest/runjsontests.py69CODE
LOWdevtools/antglob.py62CODE
LOWdevtools/batchbuild.py111CODE
LOWdevtools/batchbuild.py177CODE
LOWdevtools/tarball.py12CODE
Empty Error Handlers1 hit · 5 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHtest/runjsontests.py30except AttributeError:CODE
Hyper-Verbose Identifiers3 hits · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWdevtools/batchbuild.py89 def _execute_build_subprocess(self, cmd, env, log_path):CODE
LOWdevtools/batchbuild.py111def load_build_variants_from_config(config_path):CODE
LOWdevtools/licenseupdater.py46def update_license_in_source_directories(source_dirs, dry_run, show_diff):STRING