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php/frankenphp

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

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0.6 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for php/frankenphp, a Go project with 11,503 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 83,550 lines of code across 564 source files, recording 51 pattern matches distributed across 4 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.6 (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.

0.6

Adjusted Signal

0.6

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-31

Last Push

11.5K

Stars

Language

83.5K

Lines of Code

564

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 2.1/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 33 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 1.1/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 18 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

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

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.0/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 51 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 51

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 51 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.

Over-Commented Block27 hits · 27 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	cgimethods.go	1	package frankenphp	COMMENT
LOW	types.go	1	package frankenphp	COMMENT
LOW	frankenphp.h	1	#ifndef _FRANKENPHP_H	COMMENT
LOW	frankenphp.h	21	#include <stdint.h>	COMMENT
LOW	frankenphp.h	41	HANDLE thread_handle;	COMMENT
LOW	cgi.go	1	package frankenphp	COMMENT
LOW	cgi.go	201	// Strip PATH_INFO from SCRIPT_NAME	COMMENT
LOW	recorder_test.go	21		COMMENT
LOW	recorder_test.go	121	// WriteString implements io.StringWriter. The data in str is written	COMMENT
LOW	recorder_test.go	181	rw.WriteHeader(200)	COMMENT
LOW	frankenphp.go	1	// Package frankenphp embeds PHP in Go projects and provides a SAPI for net/http.	COMMENT
LOW	frankenphp.go	541	// request that finished normally, which marks connection_status() as	COMMENT
LOW	build-static.sh	1	#!/bin/bash	COMMENT
LOW	build-static.sh	21	# - CLEAN: when set, rebuild everything from scratch (default: none)	COMMENT
LOW	cgo.go	1	package frankenphp	COMMENT
LOW	frankenphp.c	1	#include "frankenphp.h"	COMMENT
LOW	frankenphp.c	21	#include <php_config.h>	COMMENT
LOW	frankenphp.c	41	#include <sys/procctl.h>	COMMENT
LOW	phpmainthread.go	181	// real blocking syscall via EINTR (see frankenphp_force_kill_thread);	COMMENT
LOW	emulate_php_cli.c	1	#include "emulate_php_cli.h"	COMMENT
LOW	emulate_php_cli.c	21	#include <php_output.h>	COMMENT
LOW	testdata/load-test.js	1	import http from "k6/http";	COMMENT
LOW	testdata/load-test.js	21	// // The name of the test in the k6 Cloud UI.	COMMENT
LOW	testdata/load-test.js	41	// options: {	COMMENT
LOW	caddy/app.go	41	// {	COMMENT
LOW	caddy/module.go	341	m.assignServerIndex(h)	COMMENT
LOW	caddy/module.go	361	// @indexFiles file {	COMMENT

Fake / Example Data18 hits · 18 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	docs/extensions.md	629	return frankenphp.PHPString("John Doe", false)	CODE
LOW	docs/extensions.md	646	echo $user->getName(); // "John Doe"	CODE
LOW	docs/cn/extensions.md	614	return frankenphp.PHPString("John Doe", false)	CODE
LOW	docs/cn/extensions.md	631	echo $user->getName(); // "John Doe"	CODE
LOW	docs/ja/extensions.md	614	return frankenphp.PHPString("John Doe", false)	CODE
LOW	docs/ja/extensions.md	631	echo $user->getName(); // "John Doe"	CODE
LOW	docs/it/extensions.md	624	return frankenphp.PHPString("John Doe", false)	CODE
LOW	docs/it/extensions.md	641	echo $user->getName(); // "John Doe"	CODE
LOW	docs/ru/extensions.md	612	return frankenphp.PHPString("John Doe", false)	CODE
LOW	docs/ru/extensions.md	629	echo $user->getName(); // "John Doe"	CODE
LOW	docs/es/extensions.md	550	return frankenphp.PHPString("John Doe", false)	CODE
LOW	docs/es/extensions.md	567	echo $user->getName(); // "John Doe"	CODE
LOW	docs/tr/extensions.md	612	return frankenphp.PHPString("John Doe", false)	CODE
LOW	docs/tr/extensions.md	629	echo $user->getName(); // "John Doe"	CODE
LOW	profiles/app/large_response.php	5	$chunk = str_repeat('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. ', 64);	CODE
LOW	profiles/app/large_response.php	5	$chunk = str_repeat('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. ', 64);	CODE
LOW	profiles/app/file_io.php	4	$data = str_repeat('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. ', 1000);	CODE
LOW	profiles/app/file_io.php	4	$data = str_repeat('Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. ', 1000);	CODE

Structural Annotation Overuse5 hits · 8 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	docs/migrate.md	44	## Step 1: replace your web server config	COMMENT
LOW	docs/migrate.md	79	## Step 2: migrate PHP configuration	COMMENT
LOW	docs/migrate.md	99	## Step 3: adjust pool size	COMMENT
LOW	docs/migrate.md	123	## Step 4: Docker migration	COMMENT
LOW	docs/migrate.md	175	## Step 5: consider worker mode (optional)	COMMENT

Redundant / Tautological Comments1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	docker-bake.hcl	27	# Set it to the commit date to keep image digests reproducible.	COMMENT