AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

openai/tart

Name: openai/tart — Swift Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
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Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations

2.0 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for openai/tart, a Swift project with 7,734 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 25,308 lines of code across 216 source files, recording 22 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.0 (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.

2.0

Adjusted Signal

2.0

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-30

Last Push

7.7K

Stars

Swift

Language

25.3K

Lines of Code

216

Files

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 5.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 13 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 5.0/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 11 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 10.3/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 22 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 14LOW 7

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 22 distinct pattern matches across 7 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.

Self-Referential Comments6 hits · 18 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	integration-tests/test_oci.py	41	# Create a VM (Linux for speed's sake)	COMMENT
MEDIUM	integration-tests/test_clone.py	2	# Create a Linux VM (because we can create it really fast)	COMMENT
MEDIUM	integration-tests/test_delete.py	2	# Create a Linux VM (because we can create it really fast)	COMMENT
MEDIUM	integration-tests/test_create.py	2	# Create a macOS VM	COMMENT
MEDIUM	integration-tests/test_create.py	11	# Create a Linux VM	COMMENT
MEDIUM	integration-tests/test_rename.py	2	# Create a Linux VM (because we can create it really fast)	COMMENT

Decorative Section Separators4 hits · 12 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	docs/layouts/custom.yml	21	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	docs/layouts/custom.yml	23	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	docs/layouts/custom.yml	183	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT
MEDIUM	docs/layouts/custom.yml	185	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------	COMMENT

Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping4 hits · 7 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	integration-tests/test_stacked_oci.py	93	except Exception:	CODE
MEDIUM	Sources/tart/VMStorageOCI.swift	513	print("Error pulling image: \"\(error.localizedDescription)\", attempting to re-try...")	CODE
MEDIUM	Sources/tart/OCI/Layerizer/DiskV2.swift	60	print("Error: \(error.localizedDescription)")	CODE
MEDIUM	Sources/tart/OCI/Layerizer/DiskV2.swift	232	print("Error pulling disk layer \(index + 1): \"\(error.localizedDescription)\", attempting to re-try...")	CODE

Empty Error Handlers1 hit · 5 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	integration-tests/test_stacked_oci.py	93	except Exception:	CODE

Over-Commented Block4 hits · 4 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	docs/layouts/custom.yml	1	# Copyright (c) 2016-2024 Martin Donath <martin.donath@squidfunk.com>	COMMENT
LOW	Sources/tart/Root.swift	41	// run loop own it at the top level, exactly like a plain SwiftUI app.	COMMENT
LOW	Sources/tart/OCI/Layerizer/DiskV2.swift	1	import Foundation	COMMENT
LOW	Sources/tart/Commands/Stop.swift	41	//	COMMENT

Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	docs/blog/posts/2023-04-25-orchard-ga.md	13	# Announcing Orchard orchestration for managing macOS virtual machines at scale	COMMENT

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	integration-tests/test_oci.py	33	def _calculate_speed_per_second(amount_transferred, time_taken):	CODE
LOW	integration-tests/test_stacked_oci.py	48	def test_stacked_oci_round_trip_and_boot(tart, docker_registry):	CODE