AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

smogon/pokemon-showdown

Name: smogon/pokemon-showdown — TypeScript 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).

Pokémon battle simulator.

0.0 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for smogon/pokemon-showdown, a TypeScript project with 6,010 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 829,082 lines of code across 1018 source files, recording 31 pattern matches distributed across 9 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.0 (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.

0.0

Adjusted Signal

0.0

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-31

Last Push

6.0K

Stars

TypeScript

Language

829.1K

Lines of Code

1.0K

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 0.2/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 30 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.0/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 1 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 0.0/100 · LOW

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

PR Review Velocity Impact 0.2/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 31 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 3LOW 28

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 31 distinct pattern matches across 9 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 Block14 hits · 14 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	test/sim/data.js	441	formes[6] = formes[5] + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 6 + 48;	COMMENT
LOW	config/formats.ts	841	'Uber', 'AG', 'Arena Trap', 'Moody', 'Shadow Tag', 'King\'s Rock', 'Razor Fang', 'Baton Pass',	COMMENT
LOW	config/formats.ts	3041	// The "???" type never gets STAB	COMMENT
LOW	server/chat.ts	1621		COMMENT
LOW	server/rooms.ts	2041	* NOT: PS server -> loginserver	COMMENT
LOW	sim/state.ts	21	// the simulator only gives a position to active Pokemon, serialization	COMMENT
LOW	sim/state.ts	101	// serialized. See serializeSide below for an explanation about the	COMMENT
LOW	sim/state.ts	261	return obj.hasOwnProperty('hit') && (obj.hasOwnProperty('id') \|\| obj.hasOwnProperty('move'));	COMMENT
LOW	sim/tools/exhaustive-runner.ts	341	// Returns the next option in our set of unused options which were shuffled	COMMENT
LOW	data/mods/gen1/scripts.ts	581		COMMENT
LOW	data/text/ja/moves.ts	1	// Mechanics desc conventions (ja) — keep consistent with ja/abilities.ts and ja/items.ts:	COMMENT
LOW	data/text/zh-cn/moves.ts	1	// Mechanics desc style (zh-cn): official game terminology, halfwidth numerals (1.5倍, 30%, 2～5次).	COMMENT
LOW	data/text/zh-tw/moves.ts	1	// Mechanics desc style (zh-tw): official game terminology, halfwidth numerals (1.5倍, 30%, 2～5次).	COMMENT
LOW	data/text/en-afd/default.ts	1	export const DefaultText: { [id: IDEntry]: DefaultText } = {	COMMENT

TODO Padding5 hits · 7 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	server/ladders.ts	478	if (formatTable.playerCount > 2) continue; // TODO: implement	CODE
LOW	server/chat-plugins/battlesearch.ts	286	// TODO: implement flag?	COMMENT
LOW	sim/battle-actions.ts	352	// TODO: implement properly	COMMENT
LOW	data/mods/linked/scripts.ts	436	// TODO: implement properly	COMMENT
LOW	data/mods/gen9ssb/scripts.ts	1123	// TODO: implement properly	COMMENT

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers6 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	server/chat-commands/admin.ts	66	function keysIncludingNonEnumerable(obj: object) {	CODE
LOW	server/chat-plugins/datasearch.ts	636	function prepareDexsearchValidator(usedMod: string \| undefined, rules: FormatData[], nationalSearch: boolean \| null) {	CODE
LOW	server/chat-plugins/calculator.ts	51	function parseMathematicalExpression(infix: string) {	CODE
LOW	server/chat-plugins/randombattles/index.ts	18	function getHTMLCriteriaDescription(criteria: SetCriteria) {	CODE
LOW	server/chat-plugins/trivia/trivia.ts	175	function getTriviaOrMastermindGame(room: Room \| null) {	CODE
LOW	server/tournaments/index.ts	1095	function createTournamentGenerator(	CODE

AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	tools/build-utils.js	33	// fix this function to be more robust.	COMMENT

Self-Referential Comments1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	server/artemis/model.py	1	# This file handles the actual processing of messages,	COMMENT

Slop Phrases1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	server/chat-plugins/scavengers.ts	2696	"<br />As a <strong>room owner (#)</strong>, you can also use the following scavengers commands:",	CODE

Redundant / Tautological Comments1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	.github/workflows/publish.yml	22	# Check if the package.json version field has changed since the last push	COMMENT

Fake / Example Data1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	config/config-example.js	243	to: 'admin@example.com',	CODE

Overly Generic Function Names1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	server/chat-plugins/randombattles/index.ts	177	function getData(species: string \| Species, format: string \| Format): AnyObject \| null {	CODE