Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)
This report summarizes scanner evidence for slimtoolkit/slim, a Go project with 23,494 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 77,029 lines of code across 403 source files, recording 28 pattern matches distributed across 3 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.4 (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? 28 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? 28 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 28 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 | pkg/launcher/launcher.go | 161 | return app, nil | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/docker/dockerimage/metadata.go | 301 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | pkg/docker/dockerfile/ast/parser.go | 41 | Data: data, | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/master/compose/execution.go | 1401 | PidMode: service.Pid, | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/master/inspectors/pod/pod_inspector.go | 581 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | pkg/app/master/inspectors/pod/pod_inspector.go | 601 | // if strings.ToLower(runAsUser) != "root" { | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/master/command/profile/cli.go | 241 | // }) | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/master/command/profile/cli.go | 261 | // } | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/master/command/debug/debug_images.go | 41 | //Need to work out the compat issues linking the shared | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/master/kubernetes/kubectl.go | 61 | // return nil, err | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/master/probe/http/internal/client.go | 1 | // This file is a modified version of | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/master/probe/http/internal/fastcgi.go | 1 | // This file is a modified version of | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/sensor/monitor/composite.go | 61 | // Errors() method is a way to communicate non-fatal monitor's error | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/sensor/execution/standalone.go | 101 | return cmd, fmt.Errorf("could not read command file %q: %w", filename, err) | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/app/sensor/execution/standalone.go | 121 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | …ty/compose-go/scripts/validate/template/dockerfile.txt | 1 | # Copyright 2020 The Compose Specification Authors. | COMMENT |
| LOW | …rd_party/compose-go/scripts/validate/template/bash.txt | 1 | # Copyright 2020 The Compose Specification Authors. | COMMENT |
| LOW | …arty/compose-go/scripts/validate/template/makefile.txt | 1 | # Copyright 2020 The Compose Specification Authors. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/third_party/madmo/fanotify/fanotify_arm.go | 1 | // Copyright (c) 2012, Moritz Bitsch <moritzbitsch@googlemail.com> | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/third_party/madmo/fanotify/fanotify.go | 1 | // Copyright (c) 2012, Moritz Bitsch <moritzbitsch@googlemail.com> | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/third_party/madmo/fanotify/fanotify_amd64.go | 1 | // Copyright (c) 2012, Moritz Bitsch <moritzbitsch@googlemail.com> | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/third_party/madmo/fanotify/fanotify_386.go | 1 | // Copyright (c) 2012, Moritz Bitsch <moritzbitsch@googlemail.com> | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/third_party/madmo/fanotify/fanotify_arm64.go | 1 | // Copyright (c) 2012, Moritz Bitsch <moritzbitsch@googlemail.com> | COMMENT |
| LOW | pkg/vulnerability/epss/api/api.go | 41 | // Each application should define its default sorting options. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | pkg/app/sensor/monitor/composite_test.go | 57 | // Definitely within the drain window. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/app/sensor/monitor/composite_test.go | 67 | // Definitely outside of the drain window. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | pkg/third_party/compose-go/loader/loader.go | 591 | // TODO: make this more robust | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | pkg/third_party/compose-go/schema/schema.go | 38 | // TODO: implement this | COMMENT |