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palmier-io/palmier-pro

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Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for palmier-io/palmier-pro, a Swift project with 14,669 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 126,513 lines of code across 665 source files, recording 123 pattern matches distributed across 6 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 3.0 (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.

3.0
Adjusted Signal
3.0
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-30
Last Push
14.7K
Stars
Swift
Language
126.5K
Lines of Code
665
Files
123
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 13.8/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 122 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.1/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 1 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

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

PR Review Velocity Impact 11.9/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 123 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 3MEDIUM 91LOW 29

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 123 distinct pattern matches across 6 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 Slop Vocabulary90 hits · 329 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPTextFillModeTests.swift71 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: added.id) == nil)COMMENT
MEDIUMTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPTextFillModeTests.swift118 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: original.id)?.textFillMode == .footage)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPTextFillModeTests.swift132 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: original.id)?.textFillMode == .inverted)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPTextFillModeTests.swift137 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: original.id)?.textFillMode == nil)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPTextFillModeTests.swift144 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: original.id)?.textFillMode == nil)COMMENT
MEDIUM…PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPTranscriptionTrackTests.swift53 #expect(harness.executor.lastTranscriptSession?.scope == .track(id: "second-track"))COMMENT
MEDIUM…PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPTranscriptionTrackTests.swift54 #expect(harness.executor.lastTranscriptSession?.timelineId == harness.editor.activeTimelineId)COMMENT
MEDIUM…s/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPCopyClipSettingsTests.swift94 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: target.id) == originalTarget)COMMENT
MEDIUM…s/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPCopyClipSettingsTests.swift102 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: target.id) == originalTarget)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift134 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId)?.transform.rotation == 30)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift135 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId)?.transform.rotationX == -15)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift136 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId)?.transform.rotationY == 35)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift139 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId)?.rotationTrack?.keyframes.map(\.value) == [15, 45])COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift140 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId)?.transform.rotationX == 20)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift141 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId)?.transform.rotationY == -25)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift144 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId)?.rotationTrack == nil)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift145 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId)?.transform.rotation == 30)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift148 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId) == nil)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift243 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: "video")?.transform.rotation == -90)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift244 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: "video")?.rotationTrack == nil)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift248 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: "video")?.transform.rotation == 0)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift249 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: "video")?.rotationTrack?.keyframes.map(\.value) == [0, 45])COMMENT
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift94 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId)?.rotationTrack?.keyframes.map(\.value) == [15, 45])COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift132 let restoredTrack = try #require(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId)?.rotationTrack)CODE
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift215 #expect(harness.editor.timeline.tracks.flatMap(\.clips) == [original])COMMENT
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift222 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clip.id) == original)COMMENT
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift268 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: "title")?.transform.rotation == 12)COMMENT
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift275 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: "title")?.transform.rotationX == 0)COMMENT
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift61 let textClip = try #require(harness.editor.timeline.tracks.flatMap(\.clips).first { $0.mediaType == .text })CODE
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift104 let updated = try #require(harness.editor.clipFor(id: clipId))CODE
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift168 let original = try #require(harness.editor.timeline.tracks.flatMap(\.clips).first { $0.mediaType == .text })CODE
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift180 let updated = try #require(harness.editor.clipFor(id: original.id))CODE
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPStaticRotationTests.swift187 let restored = try #require(harness.editor.clipFor(id: original.id))CODE
MEDIUM⚡…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift32 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.addedClipIds == ["added"])COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift33 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.mutatedClipIds == [mutated.id])COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift43 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.isEmpty)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift49 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.mutatedClipIds == [clip.id])COMMENT
MEDIUM…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift66 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.mutatedClipIds == [target.id])COMMENT
MEDIUM…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift70 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.isEmpty)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift99 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.mutatedTrackIds == [first.id, second.id, audio.id])COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift105 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.mutatedTrackIds == [second.id])COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift109 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.isEmpty)COMMENT
MEDIUM…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift198 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.range == 10..<20)COMMENT
MEDIUM…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift199 #expect(!harness.editor.agentActivity.isActive)COMMENT
MEDIUM…almierProTests/Agent/AgentActivityHighlightTests.swift240 #expect(harness.editor.agentActivity.mutatedClipIds.count == 5_000)COMMENT
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPVolumeKeyframeTests.swift13 let clipId = try #require(harness.editor.placeClip(CODE
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPVolumeKeyframeTests.swift69 let location = try #require(harness.editor.findClip(id: clipId))CODE
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPVolumeKeyframeTests.swift92 let restoredLocation = try #require(harness.editor.findClip(id: clipId))CODE
MEDIUM…sts/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPVolumeKeyframeTests.swift130 #expect(harness.editor.clipFor(id: id)?.blurRadius(at: 15) == 30)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/RemoveWordsTests.swift226 #expect(harness.editor.silenceRemovalSettings == before)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/RemoveWordsTests.swift232 #expect((await harness.runRaw("remove_silence", args: ["clipIds": []])).isError)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/RemoveWordsTests.swift233 #expect((await harness.runRaw("remove_silence", args: ["clipIds": [42]])).isError)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/RemoveWordsTests.swift234 #expect((await harness.runRaw("remove_silence", args: ["clipIds": ["missing-clip"]])).isError)COMMENT
MEDIUMTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/RemoveWordsTests.swift320 #expect(harness.editor.timeline.tracks[0].clips == [first])COMMENT
MEDIUMTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/RemoveWordsTests.swift321 #expect(harness.editor.timeline.tracks[1].clips == [second])COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPMarkerTests.swift56 #expect(harness.editor.timeline.markers.first?.startFrame == 40)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPMarkerTests.swift57 #expect(harness.editor.timeline.markers.first?.comment == "Addressed")COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPMarkerTests.swift58 #expect(harness.editor.timeline.markers.first?.status == .review)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPMarkerTests.swift65 #expect(harness.editor.timeline.markers.first?.startFrame == 20)COMMENT
MEDIUM⚡Tests/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPMarkerTests.swift66 #expect(harness.editor.timeline.markers.first?.status == .open)COMMENT
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Over-Commented Block28 hits · 28 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOW…ts/PalmierProTests/Captions/TranscriptCacheTests.swift41 let decoded = try JSONDecoder().decode(TranscriptionResult.self, from: data)COMMENT
LOW…ts/PalmierProTests/Agent/GetTranscriptParamTests.swift281 #expect(segRows?.count == 3)COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/AgentProviderTests.swift81 messages: messagesCOMMENT
LOW…s/PalmierProTests/Agent/MCPCopyClipSettingsTests.swift61 #expect(receipt["changed"] as? Bool == true)COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/ToolExecutorTests.swift381 let h = ToolHarness(timeline: timeline)COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/ToolExecutorTests.swift441 #expect(shared?["mediaType"] as? String == "text")COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/ToolExecutorTests.swift921 ["mediaRef": video.id, "startFrame": 0, "endFrame": 30],COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/ToolExecutorTests.swift1841 #expect(abs(((volRows?[1][1] as? NSNumber)?.doubleValue ?? -1) - -60) < 0.0001)COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/ToolExecutorTests.swift2321 let style = h.editor.timeline.tracks[0].clips[0].textStyleCOMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/TimelineToolsTests.swift21 #expect(listed?.last?["name"] as? String == "B-Roll")COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/TimelineToolsTests.swift121 let sourceId = h.editor.activeTimelineIdCOMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/ManageTracksTests.swift41 #expect(h.editor.timeline.tracks[0].id == movedId)COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/ManageTracksTests.swift81 let before = h.editor.timelineCOMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Agent/ToolArgOverflowTests.swift1import FoundationCOMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Rendering/RGBAHexTests.swift81 #expect(surrounding?.g == 1)COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Export/FCPXMLExporterTests.swift61COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Export/FCPXMLExporterTests.swift341 #expect(xml.contains("<asset-clip ref=\"asset1\" name=\"media-v.mp4\" lane=\"1\""))COMMENT
LOW…/PalmierProTests/Export/XMLExporterTimecodeTests.swift21 videoTimebase: 30, videoNtsc: trueCOMMENT
LOW…/PalmierProTests/Export/XMLExporterTimecodeTests.swift61 // MARK: - formatTimecode mathCOMMENT
LOW…sts/PalmierProTests/Timeline/MulticamEngineTests.swift281COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Timeline/NestingTests.swift21COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Timeline/NestingTests.swift61 #expect(child?.tracks[0].clips.map(\.startFrame) == [10])COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Editor/EditorUndoTests.swift121 let textStorage = UndoCounter()COMMENT
LOWTests/PalmierProTests/Media/ProjectRoundTripTests.swift161 #expect(clip.speed == 1.0)COMMENT
LOWSources/PalmierPro/Export/XMLExporter.swift1import AVFoundationCOMMENT
LOWSources/PalmierPro/Export/XMLExporter.swift21/// - Transform — scale / rotation / position (static + keyframed) → Basic Motion filterCOMMENT
LOWSources/PalmierPro/Export/FCPXMLExporter.swift41 case .fcp: "Final Cut Pro"COMMENT
LOWSources/PalmierPro/Export/FCPXMLExporter.swift61/// - Retime: a `<timeMap>` on the clip ramps the whole media (output[0, media/speed] →COMMENT
Synthetic Comment Markers2 hits · 15 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGH…rces/PalmierPro/Editor/ViewModel/EditorViewModel.swift183 /// Clip ids currently awaiting an AI-generated replacement.COMMENT
HIGH…o/Editor/ViewModel/EditorViewModel+ClipMutations.swift644 /// as awaiting an AI-generated replacement.COMMENT
Modern AI Meta-Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUM…erProTests/Agent/AnalyticsSessionActivationTests.swift37 #expect(info.payload["description"] as? String == "Anthropic's agentic coding tool")COMMENT
Cross-Language Confusion1 hit · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHmodels/siglip2/convert.py5 mkdir -p checkpoint && for f in config.json preprocessor_config.json tokenizer.json \STRING
Example Usage Blocks1 hit · 2 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWscripts/bundle.sh4# Usage:COMMENT