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skyzh/mini-lsm

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learn database internals by building a storage engine in Rust

3.8 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for skyzh/mini-lsm, a Rust project with 4,208 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 35,785 lines of code across 199 source files, recording 137 pattern matches distributed across 1 syntactic category. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 3.8 (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.

3.8
Adjusted Signal
3.8
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-09-23
Last Push
4.2K
Stars
Rust
Language
35.8K
Lines of Code
199
Files
137
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 17.4/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 137 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 17.4/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 137 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 137

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 137 distinct pattern matches across 1 syntactic category. 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 Block137 hits · 137 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWmini-lsm/src/compact.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/wal.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/lsm_iterator.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/mvcc.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/key.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/lib.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/manifest.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/lsm_storage.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/block.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/table.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/mem_table.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/iterators.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/debug.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/compact/leveled.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/compact/simple_leveled.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/compact/tiered.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/bin/mini-lsm-cli.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/bin/wrapper.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/bin/compaction-simulator.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/bin/compaction-simulator.rs41 /// enabled, you will see the new level has SST 1, 2, 3 because the data ofCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/bin/compaction-simulator.rs61 /// a new SST ID 4, 5, 6 as SSTs are immutable and write-once. With this flagCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/bin/compaction-simulator.rs81 iterations: usize,COMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week1_day6.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week1_day2.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week1_day3.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week1_day7.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week2_day2.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week2_day6.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/harness.rs1#![allow(dead_code)] // REMOVE THIS LINE once all modules are completeCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week2_day3.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week2_day4.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/release_regressions.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week2_day1.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week2_day5.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week1_day4.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week1_day5.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/tests/week1_day1.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/table/bloom.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/table/builder.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/table/iterator.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/mvcc/watermark.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/mvcc/txn.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/iterators/concat_iterator.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/iterators/two_merge_iterator.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/iterators/merge_iterator.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/block/builder.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm/src/block/iterator.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/compact.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/wal.rs1// REMOVE THIS LINE after fully implementing this functionalityCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/lsm_iterator.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/mvcc.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/key.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/lib.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/manifest.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/lsm_storage.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/block.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/table.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/tests.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
LOWmini-lsm-starter/src/mem_table.rs1// Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Alex Chi ZCOMMENT
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