AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

pinojs/pino

Name: pinojs/pino — JavaScript 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).

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2.3 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for pinojs/pino, a JavaScript project with 18,280 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 23,902 lines of code across 135 source files, recording 45 pattern matches distributed across 2 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.3 (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.

2.3

Adjusted Signal

2.3

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-06

Last Push

18.3K

Stars

JavaScript

Language

23.9K

Lines of Code

135

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 11.1/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 45 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 10.9/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 44 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 9.0/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 45 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 45

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 45 distinct pattern matches across 2 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.

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers44 hits · 55 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	browser.js	363	function prependBindingsInArguments (bindings, logFunc) {	CODE
LOW	test/transport/node-options.test.js	10	function buildTransportWithFakeThreadStream () {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/deep-object.bench.js	74	function benchPinoMinLengthDeepObj (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/deep-object.bench.js	80	function benchPinoNodeStreamDeepObj (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/child-child.bench.js	38	function benchPinoMinLengthChildChild (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/child-child.bench.js	44	function benchPinoNodeStreamChildChild (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/child-creation.bench.js	50	function benchPinoMinLengthCreation (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/child-creation.bench.js	57	function benchPinoNodeStreamCreation (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/child-creation.bench.js	64	function benchPinoCreationWithOption (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	70	function benchPinoMinLengthInterpolate (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	76	function benchPinoNodeStreamInterpolate (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	82	function benchBunyanInterpolateAll (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	89	function benchWinstonInterpolateAll (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	107	function benchPinoMinLengthInterpolateAll (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	113	function benchPinoNodeStreamInterpolateAll (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	119	function benchBunyanInterpolateExtra (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	125	function benchWinstonInterpolateExtra (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	131	function benchBoleInterpolateExtra (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	137	function benchPinoInterpolateExtra (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	143	function benchPinoMinLengthInterpolateExtra (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	149	function benchPinoNodeStreamInterpolateExtra (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	155	function benchBunyanInterpolateDeep (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	161	function benchWinstonInterpolateDeep (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	179	function benchPinoMinLengthInterpolateDeep (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/multi-arg.bench.js	185	function benchPinoNodeStreamInterpolateDeep (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/redact.bench.js	72	function benchPinoUnsafeAsyncNoRedact (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/redact.bench.js	78	function benchPinoUnsafeAsyncRedact (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/custom-levels.js	37	function benchPinoChildCustomLevel (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/custom-levels.js	43	function benchPinoChildInheritedCustomLevel (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/custom-levels.js	56	function benchPinoChildCreationCustomLevel (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/parent-vs-child.bench.js	43	function benchPinoChildChildChildChild (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/parent-vs-child.bench.js	61	function benchPinoBaseSerializersChild (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/parent-vs-child.bench.js	67	function benchPinoBaseSerializersChildSerializers (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/just-pino-heavy.bench.js	62	function benchPinoDestInterpolateDeep (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/just-pino-heavy.bench.js	68	function benchPinoAsyncInterpolateDeep (cb) {	CODE
LOW	benchmarks/internal/just-pino.bench.js	101	function benchPinoDestChildCreation (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/internal/just-pino.bench.js	150	function benchPinoDestInterpolateAll (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/internal/just-pino.bench.js	156	function benchPinoAsyncInterpolateAll (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/internal/just-pino.bench.js	162	function benchPinoInterpolateExtra (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/internal/just-pino.bench.js	168	function benchPinoDestInterpolateExtra (cb) {	CODE
LOW⚡	benchmarks/internal/just-pino.bench.js	174	function benchPinoAsyncInterpolateExtra (cb) {	CODE
LOW	lib/tools.js	404	function normalizeDestFileDescriptor (destination) {	CODE
LOW	lib/transport-stream.js	13	async function loadTransportStreamBuilder (target) {	CODE
LOW	lib/proto.js	202	function defaultMixinMergeStrategy (mergeObject, mixinObject) {	CODE

Over-Commented Block1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	pino.d.ts	1	// Project: https://github.com/pinojs/pino.git, http://getpino.io	COMMENT