AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

phoenixframework/phoenix

Name: phoenixframework/phoenix — Elixir Code Quality & Security Review | AI Slop Code Risk Monitor
Creator: AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

Peace of mind from prototype to production

0.5 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for phoenixframework/phoenix, a Elixir project with 23,211 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 37,094 lines of code across 102 source files, recording 15 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.5 (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.

0.5

Adjusted Signal

0.5

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-30

Last Push

23.2K

Stars

Elixir

Language

37.1K

Lines of Code

102

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 2.3/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 15 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 0.5/100 · LOW

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

PR Review Velocity Impact 2.0/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 15 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 0MEDIUM 0LOW 15

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 15 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.

Structural Annotation Overuse5 hits · 8 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	guides/real_time/channels.md	394	### Step 1 - Enable the `auth_token` functionality in the socket	COMMENT
LOW	guides/real_time/channels.md	411	### Step 2 - Assign a Token in the Connection	COMMENT
LOW	guides/real_time/channels.md	434	### Step 3 - Pass the Token to the JavaScript	COMMENT
LOW	guides/real_time/channels.md	443	### Step 4 - Pass the Token to the Socket Constructor and Verify	COMMENT
LOW	guides/real_time/channels.md	467	### Step 5 - Connect to the socket in JavaScript	COMMENT

Over-Commented Block5 hits · 5 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	guides/deployment/containers.md	21	# E.g.: docker.io/debian:trixie-20260623-slim	COMMENT
LOW	guides/howto/custom_error_pages.md	21		COMMENT
LOW	installer/templates/phx_static/robots.txt	1	# See https://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html for documentation on how to use the robots.txt file	COMMENT
LOW	installer/templates/phx_static/app.js	1	// For Phoenix.HTML support, including form and button helpers	COMMENT
LOW	assets/js/phoenix/longpoll.js	101	// In modern browsers, there are two different kinds of tasks,	COMMENT

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers4 hits · 4 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	guides/authn_authz/scopes.md	55	def fetch_current_scope_for_user(conn, _opts) do	CODE
LOW	guides/authn_authz/scopes.md	454	def organization_scope_fixture(scope \\ user_scope_fixture()) do	CODE
LOW	guides/authn_authz/scopes.md	465	def register_and_log_in_user_with_org(context) do	CODE
LOW	guides/authn_authz/api_authentication.md	138	def fetch_current_scope_for_api_user(conn, _opts) do	STRING

Redundant / Tautological Comments1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	.github/extract-changelog.sh	41	# Check if this line contains our version	COMMENT