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realworld-apps/realworld

"The mother of all demo apps" — Exemplary fullstack Medium.com clone powered by React, Angular, Node, Django, and many more

5.4 Moderate pattern signal View on GitHub

Maintenance and Governance Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for realworld-apps/realworld, a TypeScript project with 84,268 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 10,013 lines of code across 76 source files, recording 38 pattern matches distributed across 6 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 5.4 (Moderate 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.

5.4
Adjusted Signal
5.4
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-08-26
Last Push
84.3K
Stars
TypeScript
Language
10.0K
Lines of Code
76
Files
38
Pattern Hits
2026-10-12
Scan Date
0.03
HC Hit Rate

Risk Review · v3

Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.

Cognitive Ownership Risk 7.5/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 5 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 11.3/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 28 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 7.7/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 6 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 25.1/100 · MEDIUM

Which changes need focused human review? 38 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 2MEDIUM 5LOW 31

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 38 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.

Fake / Example Data28 hits · 24 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts31 localStorage.setItem('jwtToken', 'fake-token-for-testing');CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts41 await page.fill('input[name="email"]', 'test@test.com');CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts77 user: { username: 'testuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: null, image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts77 user: { username: 'testuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: null, image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts113 user: { username: 'testuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: 'bio', image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts113 user: { username: 'testuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: 'bio', image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts186 user: { username: 'testuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: null, image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts186 user: { username: 'testuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: null, image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts218 user: { username: 'currentuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: null, image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts218 user: { username: 'currentuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: null, image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts278 user: { username: 'currentuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: null, image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts278 user: { username: 'currentuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: null, image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts337 user: { username: 'currentuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: null, image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts337 user: { username: 'currentuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: null, image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts481 user: { username: 'testuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: 'bio', image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts481 user: { username: 'testuser', email: 'test@test.com', token: 'fake-token', bio: 'bio', image: null },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts566 token: 'fake-token',CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts580 localStorage.setItem('jwtToken', 'fake-token');CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts629 user: { email: 'test@example.com', username: 'testuser', bio: '', image: '', token: 'fake-token' },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts638 await page.evaluate(() => localStorage.setItem('jwtToken', 'fake-token'));CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts669 user: { email: 'test@example.com', username: 'testuser', bio: '', image: '', token: 'fake-token' },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts688 await page.evaluate(() => localStorage.setItem('jwtToken', 'fake-token'));CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts717 user: { email: 'test@example.com', username: 'testuser', bio: '', image: '', token: 'fake-token' },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts744 await page.evaluate(() => localStorage.setItem('jwtToken', 'fake-token'));CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts773 user: { email: 'test@example.com', username: 'testuser', bio: '', image: '', token: 'fake-token' },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts802 await page.evaluate(() => localStorage.setItem('jwtToken', 'fake-token'));CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts825 user: { email: 'test@example.com', username: 'testuser', bio: '', image: '', token: 'fake-token' },CODE
LOWspecs/e2e/error-handling.spec.ts850 await page.evaluate(() => localStorage.setItem('jwtToken', 'fake-token'));CODE
Decorative Section Separators5 hits · 15 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
MEDIUMspecs/api/hurl-to-bruno.js14// ─── Parse ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────COMMENT
MEDIUMspecs/api/hurl-to-bruno.js175// ─── Transform ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────COMMENT
MEDIUMspecs/api/hurl-to-bruno.js406// ─── Generate ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────COMMENT
MEDIUMspecs/api/hurl-to-bruno.js530// ─── Check Mode ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────COMMENT
MEDIUMspecs/api/hurl-to-bruno.js580// ─── Main ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────COMMENT
Synthetic Comment Markers2 hits · 12 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHdocs/non-included/LICENSES_LOGOS.md3> **Disclaimer**: This document was generated by Claude (Anthropic) and is providedCODE
HIGHdocs/non-included/LICENSES_LOGOS.md102*Generated by Claude (Anthropic)*COMMENT
Hyper-Verbose Identifiers1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWspecs/e2e/helpers/debug.ts73export async function isDebugInterfaceAvailable(page: Page): Promise<boolean> {CODE
Over-Commented Block1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWdocs/src/env.d.ts1/// <reference path="../.astro/types.d.ts" />COMMENT
Deep Nesting1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWassets/generator/generate_assets.py104CODE