A beautiful yet powerful syntax highlighter
This report summarizes scanner evidence for shikijs/shiki, a TypeScript project with 13,902 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 74,930 lines of code across 513 source files, recording 45 pattern matches distributed across 3 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.
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? 43 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 2 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 40 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 45 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 45 distinct pattern matches across 3 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 | packages/vitepress-twoslash/src/cache-fs.ts | 16 | export function createFileSystemTypesCache(options: FileSystemTypeResultCacheOptions = {}): TwoslashTypesCache { | CODE |
| LOW | …/vitepress-twoslash/src/cache-inline/markdown-fence.ts | 32 | export function createMarkdownFenceSourceCodec(mapper: MarkdownFencesSourceMapper): MarkdownFenceSourceMapCodec { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/vitepress-twoslash/src/cache-inline/index.ts | 21 | export function createTwoslashWithInlineCache( | CODE |
| LOW | packages/engine-javascript/src/string.ts | 12 | export function createJavaScriptEngineString(content: string): JavaScriptEngineString { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/engine-javascript/src/engine-raw.ts | 13 | export function createJavaScriptRawEngine(): RegexEngine { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/engine-javascript/src/engine-compile.ts | 29 | export function defaultJavaScriptRegexConstructor(pattern: string, options?: ToRegExpOptions): RegExp { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/engine-javascript/src/engine-compile.ts | 65 | export function createJavaScriptRegexEngine(options: JavaScriptRegexEngineOptions = {}): RegexEngine { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/core/src/highlight/code-to-hast.ts | 378 | function mergeAdjacentStyledTokens(tokens: ThemedToken[][]): ThemedToken[][] { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/core/src/highlight/_get-transformers.ts | 18 | function sortTransformersByEnforcement(transformers: ShikiTransformer[]): { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/core/src/constructors/highlighter.ts | 40 | export function createHighlighterCoreSync(options: HighlighterCoreOptions<true>): HighlighterCore { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/core/src/constructors/highlighter.ts | 57 | export function makeSingletonHighlighterCore( | CODE |
| LOW | packages/core/src/constructors/highlighter.ts | 62 | async function getSingletonHighlighterCore( | CODE |
| LOW | packages/stream/test/svelte-renderer.test.ts | 12 | function createControlledTokenStream() { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/stream/test/react-renderer.test.ts | 36 | function createControlledTokenStream() { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/primitive/src/highlight/code-to-tokens-base.ts | 280 | function explainThemeScopesNameOnly( | CODE |
| LOW | packages/primitive/src/textmate/grammar-state.ts | 17 | export function getLastGrammarStateFromMap( | CODE |
| LOW | packages/primitive/src/constructors/async.ts | 8 | export async function createShikiPrimitiveAsync(options: HighlighterCoreOptions): Promise<ShikiPrimitive> { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/colorized-brackets/test/utils.ts | 66 | function getColoredBracketTerminalOutput( | CODE |
| LOW | packages/colorized-brackets/src/index.ts | 35 | export function transformerColorizedBrackets( | CODE |
| LOW | …ckages/transformers/src/shared/notation-transformer.ts | 20 | export function createCommentNotationTransformer( | CODE |
| LOW | …/transformers/src/transformers/notation-error-level.ts | 20 | export function transformerNotationErrorLevel( | CODE |
| LOW | …es/transformers/src/transformers/remove-line-breaks.ts | 7 | export function transformerRemoveLineBreak(): ShikiTransformer { | CODE |
| LOW | …s/transformers/src/transformers/meta-highlight-word.ts | 30 | export function transformerMetaWordHighlight( | CODE |
| LOW | …es/transformers/src/transformers/render-line-number.ts | 21 | export function transformerRenderLineNumber( | CODE |
| LOW | …ransformers/src/transformers/remove-notation-escape.ts | 9 | export function transformerRemoveNotationEscape(): ShikiTransformer { | CODE |
| LOW | …es/transformers/src/transformers/notation-highlight.ts | 23 | export function transformerNotationHighlight( | CODE |
| LOW | …/transformers/src/transformers/render-indent-guides.ts | 15 | export function transformerRenderIndentGuides( | CODE |
| LOW | …kages/transformers/src/transformers/remove-comments.ts | 14 | export function transformerRemoveComments( | CODE |
| LOW | …ges/transformers/src/transformers/render-whitespace.ts | 32 | export function transformerRenderWhitespace( | CODE |
| LOW | …/transformers/src/transformers/compact-line-options.ts | 14 | export function transformerCompactLineOptions( | CODE |
| LOW | …ansformers/src/transformers/notation-highlight-word.ts | 24 | export function transformerNotationWordHighlight( | CODE |
| LOW | packages/rehype/src/core.ts | 17 | function rehypeShikiFromHighlighter( | CODE |
| LOW | packages/markdown-it/src/async.ts | 7 | export function setupMarkdownWithCodeToHtml( | CODE |
| LOW | packages/monaco/src/index.ts | 27 | export function textmateThemeToMonacoTheme(theme: ThemeRegistrationResolved): MonacoTheme { | CODE |
| LOW | …ges/magic-move/src/solid/ShikiMagicMovePrecompiled.tsx | 27 | export function ShikiMagicMovePrecompiled(props: ShikiMagicMovePrecompiledProps) { | CODE |
| LOW | …ges/magic-move/src/react/ShikiMagicMovePrecompiled.tsx | 21 | export function ShikiMagicMovePrecompiled( | CODE |
| LOW | packages/engine-oniguruma/src/oniguruma/onig.ts | 19 | function updateGlobalBufferAndViews(buf: ArrayBuffer): void { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/engine-oniguruma/src/oniguruma/index.ts | 375 | function isInstantiatorOptionsObject(dataOrOptions: any): dataOrOptions is { instantiator: WebAssemblyInstantiator } { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/twoslash/src/renderer-rich.ts | 197 | function renderMarkdownPassThrough(markdown: string): ElementContent[] { | CODE |
| LOW | packages/twoslash/src/renderer-rich.ts | 717 | export function defaultHoverInfoProcessor(type: string): string { | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | packages/core/src/utils/strings.test.ts | 222 | print("hello") | CODE |
| HIGH | packages/shiki/test/shorthands-markdown.test.ts | 27 | print("hello") | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | packages/monaco/test/repro.test.ts | 81 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | packages/monaco/test/repro.test.ts | 101 | // So if both themes map `keyword` to some color, `scopes` should be `keyword`. | COMMENT |
| LOW | packages/monaco/test/repro.test.ts | 121 | COMMENT |