AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

spatie/laravel-permission

SlopCodeMonitor badge for spatie/laravel-permission Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

Associate users with roles and permissions

1.1 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for spatie/laravel-permission, a PHP project with 12,979 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 20,472 lines of code across 166 source files, recording 22 pattern matches distributed across 2 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.1 (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.

1.1
Adjusted Signal
1.1
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-22
Last Push
13.0K
Stars
PHP
Language
20.5K
Lines of Code
166
Files
22
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 5.3/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 21 finding(s).

Hallucinated Dependency & Supply Chain Risk 0.2/100 · LOW

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

Agent Over-Engineering Ratio 5.3/100 · LOW

Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 21 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 5.2/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 22 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

Run additional scans to build a history of the legacy pattern signal. Score changes are not a measure of AI adoption or code quality.

No multi-scan history yet — run the scanner again to build trend data.

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 22

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 22 distinct pattern matches across 2 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.

Hyper-Verbose Identifiers21 hits · 22 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWtests/TestSupport/TestCase.php335 public function getLastRouteMiddlewareFromRouter($router)CODE
LOWtests/Integration/OctaneListenerTest.php18function registerOctaneListenerForTest(): voidCODE
LOWtests/Integration/OctaneListenerTest.php46function dispatchOctaneRequestTerminated(Application $sandbox): voidCODE
LOWsrc/PermissionRegistrar.php160 public function forgetWildcardPermissionIndex(?Model $record = null): voidCODE
LOWsrc/PermissionRegistrar.php171 public function getWildcardPermissionIndex(Model $record): arrayCODE
LOWsrc/PermissionRegistrar.php185 public function clearPermissionsCollection(): voidCODE
LOWsrc/PermissionRegistrar.php279 private function indexPermissionsForLookup(): voidCODE
LOWsrc/PermissionRegistrar.php365 private function rememberReturnedPermission(Model $permission): voidCODE
LOWsrc/PermissionRegistrar.php458 private function getSerializedPermissionsForCache(): arrayCODE
LOWsrc/PermissionRegistrar.php476 private function getSerializedRoleRelation(Model $permission): arrayCODE
LOWsrc/PermissionRegistrar.php498 private function getHydratedPermissionCollection(): CollectionCODE
LOWsrc/PermissionRegistrar.php510 private function getHydratedRoleCollection(array $roles): CollectionCODE
LOWsrc/Middleware/RoleOrPermissionMiddleware.php56 protected static function parseRoleOrPermissionToString(array|string|BackedEnum $roleOrPermission): stringCODE
LOWsrc/Traits/HasPermissions.php148 protected function convertToPermissionModels($permissions): arrayCODE
LOWsrc/Traits/HasPermissions.php463 public function forgetWildcardPermissionIndex(): voidCODE
LOWsrc/Traits/RefreshesPermissionCache.php9 public static function bootRefreshesPermissionCache()CODE
LOW⚡src/Support/Config.php98 public static function usePassportClientCredentials(): boolCODE
LOW⚡src/Support/Config.php108 public static function displayPermissionInException(): boolCODE
LOW⚡src/Support/Config.php113 public static function wildcardPermissionsEnabled(): boolCODE
LOWsrc/Commands/UpgradeForTeamsCommand.php74 protected function getExistingMigrationsWarning(array $existingMigrations): stringCODE
LOWsrc/Commands/UpgradeForTeamsCommand.php85 protected function alreadyExistingMigrations(): arrayCODE
Fake / Example Data1 hit · 1 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
LOWdocs/basic-usage/new-app.md112 'email' => 'admin@example.com',CODE