A highly customizable Changelog Generator that follows Conventional Commit specifications ⛰️
This report summarizes scanner evidence for orhun/git-cliff, a Rust project with 12,353 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 33,036 lines of code across 189 source files, recording 78 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 3.6 (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.
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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 53 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 16 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 9 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 78 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 78 distinct pattern matches across 4 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 | cliff.toml | 81 | [git] | COMMENT |
| LOW | cliff.toml | 121 | protect_breaking_commits = false | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/Cargo.toml | 41 | ## Enable integration with Gitea. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/commit.rs | 21 | #[derive(Debug, Clone, Eq, PartialEq, Deserialize, Serialize)] | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/commit.rs | 121 | #[serde(skip_deserializing)] | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/commit.rs | 141 | /// Arbitrary data to be used with the `--from-context` CLI option. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/error.rs | 1 | use thiserror::Error as ThisError; | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/error.rs | 21 | #[cfg(feature = "repo")] | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/error.rs | 41 | /// Error that may occur while grouping commits. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/error.rs | 61 | ArgumentError(String), | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/error.rs | 81 | /// value matchers. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/error.rs | 101 | HttpHeaderError(#[from] reqwest::header::InvalidHeaderValue), | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/config.rs | 121 | /// | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/config.rs | 141 | pub commit_parsers: Vec<CommitParser>, | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/config.rs | 161 | /// Regex to count matched tags. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/config.rs | 181 | /// Exclude unrelated commits with changes at the specified paths. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/config.rs | 241 | /// GitHub remote. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/config.rs | 401 | /// Configures automatic minor version increments for feature changes. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/config.rs | 421 | /// | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/config.rs | 441 | pub custom_minor_increment_regex: Option<String>, | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/config.rs | 481 | #[serde(with = "serde_regex", default)] | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/release.rs | 21 | pub struct Release<'a> { | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/release.rs | 41 | /// Submodule commits. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/lib.rs | 1 | //! A highly customizable changelog generator ⛰️ | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/lib.rs | 21 | /// Config file parser. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/lib.rs | 41 | pub mod repo; | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/embed.rs | 1 | use std::path::{Component, Path}; | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/statistics.rs | 21 | pub count: usize, | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/markdown.rs | 1 | //! Markdown post-processing for the generated changelog. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/template.rs | 61 | /// Behaves like Tera's built-in `group_by(attribute="group")` filter, but | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/contributor.rs | 1 | use std::hash::{Hash, Hasher}; | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/changelog.rs | 241 | } else if release_index == self.releases.len() - 1 { | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/changelog.rs | 341 | tracing::debug!("Number of GitLab commits: {}", commits.len()); | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/changelog.rs | 441 | /// Returns the Azure DevOps metadata needed for the changelog. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/remote/azure_devops.rs | 61 | #[derive(Default, Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)] | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/remote/gitlab.rs | 21 | /// Optional Description of project | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/remote/bitbucket.rs | 41 | /// Bitbucket Pagination Header | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/remote/bitbucket.rs | 61 | /// Author of a commit or a pull request. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/remote/github.rs | 61 | /// Label of the pull request. | COMMENT |
| LOW | config/cliff.toml | 41 | # See https://www.conventionalcommits.org | COMMENT |
| LOW | website/blog/git-cliff-2.2.0.md | 41 | # | COMMENT |
| LOW | examples/github.toml | 1 | # git-cliff ~ configuration file | COMMENT |
| LOW | examples/azure-devops-keepachangelog.toml | 1 | # git-cliff ~ configuration file | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/codeql.yml | 1 | # For most projects, this workflow file will not need changing; you simply need | COMMENT |
| LOW | .github/workflows/test-fixtures.yml | 161 | previous-release-timestamp: "2022-04-06 01:25:12" | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff/src/config_path.rs | 1 | //! Resolution of the configuration file path. | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff/src/lib.rs | 321 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | git-cliff/src/lib.rs | 581 | .rfind(|release| !release.commits.is_empty()) | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff/src/lib.rs | 601 | /// Ok(()) | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff/src/lib.rs | 621 | /// let args = Opt::parse(); | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff/src/args.rs | 161 | // `value_delimiter` here: a commit message legitimately contains spaces | COMMENT |
| LOW | git-cliff/src/args.rs | 241 | value_name = "TEMPLATE", | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | examples/scoped.toml | 0 | # changelog\n all notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.\n | STRING |
| HIGH | examples/scopesorted.toml | 0 | # changelog\n all notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.\n | STRING |
| HIGH | examples/detailed.toml | 0 | # changelog\n all notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.\n | STRING |
| HIGH | examples/unconventional.toml | 0 | # changelog\n all notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.\n | STRING |
| HIGH | examples/statistics.toml | 0 | # changelog\n all notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.\n | STRING |
| HIGH | examples/gitlab-keepachangelog.toml | 0 | # changelog\n all notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. the format is based on [keep a change | STRING |
| HIGH | examples/keepachangelog.toml | 0 | # changelog\n all notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. the format is based on [keep a change | STRING |
| HIGH | examples/azure-devops-keepachangelog.toml | 0 | # changelog\n all notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. the format is based on [keep a change | STRING |
| HIGH | examples/github-keepachangelog.toml | 0 | # changelog\n all notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. the format is based on [keep a change | STRING |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | git-cliff-core/tests/integration_test.rs | 118 | pattern: Regex::new("John Doe").ok(), | CODE |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/tests/integration_test.rs | 157 | name: Some("John Doe".to_string()), | CODE |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/commit.rs | 840 | name: Some("John Doe".to_string()), | CODE |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/commit.rs | 904 | name: Some("John Doe".to_string()), | CODE |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/commit.rs | 943 | pattern: Regex::new("John Doe").ok(), | CODE |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/commit.rs | 1545 | name: Some("John Doe".to_string()), | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | git-cliff-core/src/statistics.rs | 160 | name: Some(String::from("John Doe")), | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | git-cliff-core/src/statistics.rs | 170 | name: Some(String::from("John Doe")), | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | git-cliff-core/src/statistics.rs | 180 | name: Some(String::from("John Doe")), | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | git-cliff-core/src/statistics.rs | 190 | name: Some(String::from("John Doe")), | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | git-cliff-core/src/statistics.rs | 202 | name: Some(String::from("John Doe")), | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | git-cliff-core/src/statistics.rs | 212 | name: Some(String::from("John Doe")), | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | git-cliff-core/src/statistics.rs | 222 | name: Some(String::from("John Doe")), | CODE |
| LOW | git-cliff-core/src/statistics.rs | 267 | name: Some(String::from("John Doe")), | CODE |
| LOW | website/docs/configuration/git.md | 291 | - `{ field = "author.name", pattern = "John Doe", group = "John's stuff" }` | CODE |
| LOW | website/docs/configuration/git.md | 292 | - If the author's name attribute of the commit matches the pattern "John Doe" (as a regex), override the scope with "J | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | .github/workflows/test-fixtures.yml | 176 | # NOTE: The following four include-path tests all use identical | COMMENT |