AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

saber-notes/saber

Name: saber-notes/saber — Dart 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).

The cross-platform open-source app built for handwriting

0.7 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for saber-notes/saber, a Dart project with 4,991 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 85,173 lines of code across 2004 source files, recording 44 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.7 (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.

0.7

Adjusted Signal

0.7

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-29

Last Push

5.0K

Stars

Dart

Language

85.2K

Lines of Code

2.0K

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 3.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 44 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 0.0/100 · LOW

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

PR Review Velocity Impact 3.1/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 44 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 5LOW 39

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 44 distinct pattern matches across 5 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 Block34 hits · 34 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	pubspec.yaml	1	name: saber	COMMENT
LOW	pubspec.yaml	221	# in this "flutter" section. Each entry in this list should have a	COMMENT
LOW	patches/post/disable_prebuilt_pdfium.sh	1	#!/bin/bash	COMMENT
LOW	linux/flutter/generated_plugin_registrant.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	scripts/build_pdfium.sh	1	#!/bin/bash	COMMENT
LOW	packages/onyxsdk_pen/example/pubspec.yaml	21	onyxsdk_pen:	COMMENT
LOW	packages/onyxsdk_pen/example/pubspec.yaml	41	# rules and activating additional ones.	COMMENT
LOW	packages/onyxsdk_pen/example/pubspec.yaml	61	# https://flutter.dev/to/resolution-aware-images	COMMENT
LOW	packages/onyxsdk_pen/example/pubspec.yaml	81	# weight: 700	COMMENT
LOW	packages/onyxsdk_pen/example/analysis_options.yaml	21		COMMENT
LOW	packages/sbn/lib/read_only_reason.dart	1	/// A note may be read-only for different reasons.	COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	121		COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	141		COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	161	/// [child] parameter must be passed directly, and this is null.	COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	181		COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	201	/// larger than the entire screen, setting [constrained] to false is necessary	COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	221	///	COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	241	///	COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	261	/// allowed in most cases without first increasing the boundaryMargin.	COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	281	/// {@template flutter.widgets.InteractiveCanvasViewer.onInteractionEnd}	COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	301	/// changed due to this interaction.	COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	321	/// the interaction caused the matrix to change.	COMMENT
LOW	lib/components/canvas/interactive_canvas.dart	341	final GestureScaleEndCallback? onInteractionEnd;	COMMENT
LOW	lib/i18n/strings_en.g.dart	1	///	COMMENT
LOW	lib/i18n/strings.g.dart	441	}	COMMENT
LOW	lib/i18n/strings.g.dart	461	/// Use this if you have e.g. a settings page where the user can select the locale during runtime.	COMMENT
LOW	lib/data/extensions/change_notifier_extensions.dart	1	import 'package:flutter/material.dart';	COMMENT
LOW	lib/data/file_manager/file_manager.dart	541	await directory.delete(recursive: recursive);	COMMENT
LOW	lib/data/editor/editor_history.dart	21	/// See also: [_past]	COMMENT
LOW	lib/data/editor/editor_core_info.dart	21	import 'package:sbn/canvas_background_pattern.dart';	COMMENT
LOW	lib/data/editor/editor_core_info.dart	41	/// - 11: Centralise storage of image assets	COMMENT
LOW	windows/runner/utils.h	1	#ifndef RUNNER_UTILS_H_	COMMENT
LOW	windows/runner/resource.h	1	//{{NO_DEPENDENCIES}}	COMMENT
LOW	windows/flutter/generated_plugin_registrant.h	1	//	COMMENT

Self-Referential Comments3 hits · 9 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	pubspec.yaml	198	# The following section is specific to Flutter packages.	COMMENT
MEDIUM	scripts/build_pdfium.sh	14	# This file is derived from https://github.com/bblanchon/pdfium-binaries:	COMMENT
MEDIUM	packages/onyxsdk_pen/example/pubspec.yaml	47	# The following section is specific to Flutter packages.	COMMENT

Slop Phrases4 hits · 8 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	pubspec.yaml	202	# included with your application, so that you can use the icons in	COMMENT
MEDIUM	packages/onyxsdk_pen/example/pubspec.yaml	51	# included with your application, so that you can use the icons in	COMMENT
LOW	lib/i18n/strings_en.g.dart	1032	/// en: '0. Make sure syncing is complete (see the sync progress on the home screen). 1. Log out of Saber. 2. Go to you	COMMENT
LOW	lib/i18n/en.i18n.yaml	251	4. Don't forget to log out and log back in to Saber on your other devices too.	CODE

Verbosity Indicators2 hits · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	lib/i18n/strings.g.dart	463	/// Step 1:	COMMENT
LOW	lib/i18n/strings.g.dart	469	/// Step 2:	COMMENT

Redundant / Tautological Comments1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	test.sh	26	# Check if podman is installed	COMMENT