4.1

Adjusted Signal

4.1

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-25

Last Push

9.9K

Stars

Objective-C

Language

51.5K

Lines of Code

340

Files

189

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 15.7/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 172 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.4/100 · LOW

Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 4 finding(s).

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 3.1/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 14 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 19.1/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 189 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 15LOW 174

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 189 distinct pattern matches across 6 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 Block169 hits · 169 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	InstallerConnection/SUInstallerConnectionProtocol.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerConnection/SUXPCInstallerConnection.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerConnection/SUXPCInstallerConnection.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerConnection/main.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerConnection/SUInstallerConnection.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Configurations/generate_progress_tool_localizations.py	1	#!/usr/bin/env python3	COMMENT
LOW	UITests/SUTestApplicationTest.swift	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	BinaryDelta/Bridging-Header.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerStatus/SUInstallerStatusProtocol.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerStatus/SUXPCInstallerStatus.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerLauncher/SUInstallerLauncher+Private.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerLauncher/SUInstallerLauncher.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerLauncher/SUInstallerLauncher.m	141	// See Apple's 'EvenBetterAuthorizationSample' sample code and	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerLauncher/main.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerLauncher/SUInstallerLauncherProtocol.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	InstallerLauncher/SUInstallerLauncher.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	generate_appcast/URL+Hashing.swift	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	generate_appcast/Bridging-Header.h	1	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>	COMMENT
LOW	Tests/SUUpdaterTest.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Tests/SUInstallerTest.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Tests/SUVersionComparisonTest.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Tests/Sparkle Unit Tests-Bridging-Header.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Tests/SUSignatureVerifierTest.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Tests/SUCodeSigningVerifierTest.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Tests/SUBinaryDeltaTest.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	sign_update/Bridging-Header.h	1	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUBinaryDeltaApply.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SPUInstallationInputData.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SPUDeltaArchive.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUFlatPackageUnarchiver.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUPipedUnarchiver.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUBinaryDeltaCreate.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUBinaryDeltaUnarchiver.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUBinaryDeltaCommon.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SPUXarDeltaArchive.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SPUDeltaArchiveProtocol.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUDiskImageUnarchiver.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/AppInstaller.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/AppInstaller.m	21	#import "SUFileManager.h"	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SPUSparkleDeltaArchive.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUSignatureVerifier.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUCodeSigningVerifier.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUInstallerProtocol.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUFlatPackageUnarchiver.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUGuidedPackageInstaller.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUBinaryDeltaApply.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUBinaryDeltaCreate.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUPipedUnarchiver.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUPlainInstaller.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SPUMessageTypes.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUUnarchiver.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUDiskImageUnarchiver.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SPUXarDeltaArchive.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SPUXarDeltaArchive.m	21	// Don't use OS availability for this API	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUBinaryDeltaCommon.h	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUBinaryDeltaCommon.h	21		COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUBinaryDeltaUnarchiver.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/StatusInfo.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUInstaller.m	1	//	COMMENT
LOW	Autoupdate/SUCodeSigningVerifier.m	1	//	COMMENT
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Excessive Try-Catch Wrapping13 hits · 32 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	common_cli/Signing.swift	74	print("Error: failed to parse XML data: \(error)")	CODE
MEDIUM	generate_appcast/Appcast.swift	215	print("Error: could not sign \(update.archivePath.path) due to lack of private EdDSA key")	CODE
MEDIUM	generate_appcast/ArchiveItem.swift	470	print("Error: failed to read release notes as UTF8 string: \(path.lastPathComponent)")	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	generate_appcast/main.swift	26	print("Error: specifying private key as the argument is no longer supported.")	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	generate_appcast/main.swift	29	print("Error: Private key not decoded from the argument, which has \(data.count) bytes. Please provide a	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	generate_appcast/main.swift	33	print("Error: Private key not decoded from the argument because it isn't base64 encoded. Please provide a va	CODE
MEDIUM	generate_appcast/main.swift	50	print("Error: Failed to base64 decode secret data from keychain")	CODE
MEDIUM	generate_appcast/main.swift	60	print("Error: Failed to decode private and public keys from secret data")	CODE
MEDIUM	generate_appcast/main.swift	362	print("Error generating appcast from directory", archivesSourceDir.path, "\n", error)	STRING
MEDIUM⚡	sign_update/main.swift	206	print("Error: failed to extract signature from appcast. Is the appcast signed?")	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	sign_update/main.swift	214	print("Error: failed to decode base64 signature: \(base64Signature)")	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	sign_update/main.swift	220	print("Error: signature passed in has an invalid byte count.")	CODE
MEDIUM⚡	sign_update/main.swift	228	print("Error: failed to pass signing verification.")	CODE

AI Slop Vocabulary2 hits · 6 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	Sparkle/SULog.m	33	// And we don't really leverage of os_log's deferred formatting processing because we format the string before passi	COMMENT
MEDIUM	Vendor/bsdiff/sais.c	46	// changing a nuanced behavior, I'm assuming the file has been time-tested and	COMMENT

Unused Imports2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	Configurations/update-carthage.py	3		CODE
LOW	Configurations/generate_latest_changes.py	3		CODE

Fake / Example Data2 hits · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	TestApplication/sparkletestcast.xml	47	<li>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</li>	CODE
LOW	TestApplication/sparkletestcast.xml	47	<li>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.</li>	CODE

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers1 hit · 1 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	Configurations/generate_progress_tool_localizations.py	114	def update_info_plist_localizations(locales):	CODE

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