AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

spf13/cobra

Name: spf13/cobra — Go 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).

A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

2.9 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for spf13/cobra, a Go project with 44,731 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 19,869 lines of code across 59 source files, recording 56 pattern matches distributed across 3 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.9 (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.

2.9

Adjusted Signal

2.9

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-07-11

Last Push

44.7K

Stars

Language

19.9K

Lines of Code

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 13.7/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 56 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 13.6/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 56 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 1LOW 55

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 56 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.

Over-Commented Block54 hits · 54 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	zsh_completions_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	command.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	command.go	41	// FParseErrWhitelist configures Flag parse errors to be ignored	COMMENT
LOW	command.go	101	// For portability with other shells, it is recommended to instead use ValidArgsFunction	COMMENT
LOW	command.go	121	// * PostRun()	COMMENT
LOW	command.go	161	lflags *flag.FlagSet	COMMENT
LOW	command.go	261		COMMENT
LOW	fish_completions.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	flag_groups.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	powershell_completions_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	command_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	zsh_completions.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	zsh_completions.go	41	// and writes it to the passed writer.	COMMENT
LOW	bash_completionsV2_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	cobra.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	cobra.go	61	// EnableCaseInsensitive allows case-insensitive commands names. (case sensitive by default)	COMMENT
LOW	.golangci.yml	1	# Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	args_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	args.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	bash_completionsV2.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	bash_completionsV2.go	201	# When there are no completion choices from the program, file completion	COMMENT
LOW	cobra_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	cobra_test.go	221	got := rpad(tt.inputString, tt.padding)	COMMENT
LOW	completions.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	completions.go	61	// after the completion even if there is a single completion provided.	COMMENT
LOW	completions.go	141	// CompletionWithDesc returns a [Completion] with a description by using the TAB delimited format.	COMMENT
LOW	completions.go	261	// Remove all activeHelp entries if it's disabled.	COMMENT
LOW	completions.go	601	return []Completion{}	COMMENT
LOW	command_win.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	active_help_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	fish_completions_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	powershell_completions.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	powershell_completions.go	221		COMMENT
LOW	flag_groups_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	command_notwin.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	shell_completions.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	shell_completions.go	41		COMMENT
LOW	active_help.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	bash_completions.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	completions_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	bash_completions_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	site/content/completions/_index.md	201		COMMENT
LOW	site/content/completions/_index.md	221	// Indicates that only directory names should be provided in file completion.	COMMENT
LOW	doc/man_examples_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	doc/md_docs_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	doc/yaml_docs_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	doc/cmd_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	doc/yaml_docs.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	doc/md_docs.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	doc/util.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	doc/rest_docs_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	doc/rest_docs.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	doc/man_docs.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT
LOW	doc/man_docs_test.go	1	// Copyright 2013-2023 The Cobra Authors	COMMENT

AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	flag_groups_test.go	28	// Define lots of flags to utilize for testing.	COMMENT

Redundant / Tautological Comments1 hit · 2 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	zsh_completions.go	187	# Check if this is an activeHelp statement (i.e., prefixed with $activeHelpMarker)	COMMENT