Desktop customization tool for Windows
This report summarizes scanner evidence for rainmeter/rainmeter, a C++ project with 6,124 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 430,729 lines of code across 1058 source files, recording 1098 pattern matches distributed across 6 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.4 (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? 1098 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 1098 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 1098 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.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | Version.h | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeasureCPU.cpp | 21 | #define Li2Double(x) ((double)((x).QuadPart)) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/TrayIcon.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/DialogAbout.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeasureUsageMonitor.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeasureAudioLevel.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Measure.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Measure.cpp | 21 | #include "MeasureDiskSpace.h" | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Measure.cpp | 41 | #include "MeasureSpeedFan.h" | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/StdAfx.h | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/StdAfx.h | 21 | #include <Wininet.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/StdAfx.h | 41 | #include <cmath> | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeasureSysInfo.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/ConfigParser.h | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/CommandHandler.h | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeasureRunCommand.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Measure.h | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/ContextMenu.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/GameMode.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Meter.h | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Skin.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Skin.cpp | 21 | #include "MeasureNet.h" | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeasureNowPlaying.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeterTextEdit.h | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeasureFileView.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/SkinPosition.h | 61 | // position whenever the position is saved, which loses the authored value if the position was | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeterTextEdit.cpp | 1121 | const std::wstring result = PreviewReplacement(text, insert); | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/DialogNewSkin.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/DialogPackage.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeterStringBase.h | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/MeterStringBase.h | 101 | void ApplyTextState(Gfx::Canvas& canvas, Gfx::TextFormat* format = nullptr); | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 41 | [DllImport("Rainmeter.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)] | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 101 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 121 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 161 | /// <code> | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 181 | /// <param name="defValue">Default value for the option if it is not found, invalid, or a formula could not be p | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 201 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 221 | { | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 241 | /// { | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 261 | /// <example> | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 281 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 301 | public string ReplaceVariables(string str) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 321 | /// </code> | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 341 | /// data = GCHandle.ToIntPtr(GCHandle.Alloc(measure)); | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 361 | /// if (rmDataFile == null) { rmDataFile = API.GetSettingsFile(); } // declare 'rmDataFile' as a string in | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 381 | /// Rainmeter.API api = (Rainmeter.API)rm; | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 401 | /// { | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 421 | /// internal void Initialize(Rainmeter.API rm) | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 521 | /// <returns>No return type</returns> | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 541 | /// <returns>No return type</returns> | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 561 | /// Sends a message to the Rainmeter log with source | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 581 | RmLog(this.m_Rm, type, message); | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/RainmeterAPI.cs | 601 | /// return 0.0; | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Rainmeter.h | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Rainmeter.h | 21 | #define APPNAME L"Rainmeter" | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Rainmeter.h | 321 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | Library/DialogInstall.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Skin.h | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/ConfigParser.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
| LOW | Library/Meter.cpp | 1 | // Copyright (c) Rainmeter Team. Source code licensed under GNU GPL v2 (see LICENSE file). | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | Build/Skins/illustro/Recycle Bin/Recycle Bin.ini | 2 | ; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only. | CODE |
| MEDIUM | Build/Skins/illustro/Google/Google.ini | 2 | ; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only. | CODE |
| MEDIUM | Build/Skins/illustro/Network/Network.ini | 2 | ; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only. | CODE |
| MEDIUM | Build/Skins/illustro/Welcome/Welcome.ini | 2 | ; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only. | CODE |
| MEDIUM | Build/Skins/illustro/System/System.ini | 2 | ; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only. | CODE |
| MEDIUM | Build/Skins/illustro/Disk/1 Disk.ini | 2 | ; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only. | CODE |
| MEDIUM | Build/Skins/illustro/Disk/2 Disks.ini | 2 | ; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only. | CODE |
| MEDIUM | Build/Skins/illustro/Clock/Clock.ini | 2 | ; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only. | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | ThirdParty/NSIS/System/System.c | 1032 | // Step 1: retrieve value | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/NSIS/System/System.c | 1051 | // Step 2: place it | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/NSIS/System/System.c | 1159 | // Step 1: retrieve value | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/NSIS/System/System.c | 1223 | // Step 2: place it | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/fmt/format-inl.h | 1275 | // Step 1: integer promotion & Schubfach multiplier calculation. | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/fmt/format-inl.h | 1330 | // Step 2: Try larger divisor; remove trailing zeros if necessary. | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/fmt/format-inl.h | 1362 | // Step 3: Find the significand with the smaller divisor. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | ThirdParty/NSIS/System/System.c | 1032 | // Step 1: retrieve value | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/NSIS/System/System.c | 1051 | // Step 2: place it | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/NSIS/System/System.c | 1159 | // Step 1: retrieve value | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/NSIS/System/System.c | 1223 | // Step 2: place it | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/fmt/format-inl.h | 1275 | // Step 1: integer promotion & Schubfach multiplier calculation. | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/fmt/format-inl.h | 1330 | // Step 2: Try larger divisor; remove trailing zeros if necessary. | COMMENT |
| LOW | ThirdParty/fmt/format-inl.h | 1362 | // Step 3: Find the significand with the smaller divisor. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | Library/Skin.cpp | 346 | // utilize Connected Standby (InstantGo). Reference: OnWakeAction, OnPowerBroadcast | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | Library/taglib/mpeg/mpegproperties.cpp | 193 | // TODO: Make this more robust with audio property detection for VBR without a | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | ThirdParty/fmt/format.h | 3383 | // Compilers are not aware of how to leverage the maximum value of | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | ThirdParty/zlib/minizip/skipset.h | 20 | // Example usage: | COMMENT |