AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser

SlopCodeMonitor badge for sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser Adjusted legacy signal; badge bands: 25 / 50 / 75 (different from dashboard bands).

Official home of the DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) project. Previously known as "SQLite Database Browser" and "Database Browser for SQLite". Website at:

1.9 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser, a C++ project with 24,747 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 433,221 lines of code across 551 source files, recording 943 pattern matches distributed across 9 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.9 (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.

1.9
Adjusted Signal
1.9
Raw Pattern Score
100%
Time Factor
2026-10-31
Last Push
24.7K
Stars
C++
Language
433.2K
Lines of Code
551
Files
943
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 9.1/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 942 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? 2 finding(s).

PR Review Velocity Impact 10.5/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 943 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 2MEDIUM 4LOW 937

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 943 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 Block926 hits · 786 pts
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LOWlibs/qhexedit/src/qhexedit.h1#ifndef QHEXEDIT_HCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp41#ifndef JSON_NO_IOCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp61#include <array> // arrayCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp181 *COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp201COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp221COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp241COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp261 #undef JSON_HEDLEY_MSVC_VERSIONCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp281 #define JSON_HEDLEY_MSVC_VERSION_CHECK(major,minor,patch) (_MSC_VER >= ((major * 100) + (minor)))COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp301COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp321#if defined(__PGI) && defined(__PGIC__) && defined(__PGIC_MINOR__) && defined(__PGIC_PATCHLEVEL__)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp341#elif defined(__SUNPRO_CC) && (__SUNPRO_CC > 0x1000)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp361#endifCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp381#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_ARM_VERSION_CHECK)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp401#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_IBM_VERSION_CHECK)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp421 #define JSON_HEDLEY_TI_VERSION JSON_HEDLEY_VERSION_ENCODE(__TI_COMPILER_VERSION__ / 1000000, (__TI_COMPILER_VERSION_COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp441#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_TI_CL2000_VERSION_CHECK)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp461 #define JSON_HEDLEY_TI_CL430_VERSION_CHECK(major,minor,patch) (JSON_HEDLEY_TI_CL430_VERSION >= JSON_HEDLEY_VERSION_ECOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp481COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp501#if defined(__TI_COMPILER_VERSION__) && defined(__C7000__)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp521#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_TI_CLPRU_VERSION_CHECK)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp541#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_CRAY_VERSION_CHECK)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp561#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_IAR_VERSION_CHECK)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp581 #define JSON_HEDLEY_TINYC_VERSION_CHECK(major,minor,patch) (JSON_HEDLEY_TINYC_VERSION >= JSON_HEDLEY_VERSION_ENCODE(COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp601COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp621#if defined(__POCC__)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp641#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_MCST_LCC_VERSION_CHECK)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp681#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_HAS_ATTRIBUTE)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp701#endifCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp721 #define JSON_HEDLEY_HAS_CPP_ATTRIBUTE(attribute) (0)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp741#endifCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp761 #define JSON_HEDLEY_HAS_BUILTIN(builtin) __has_builtin(builtin)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp781 #define JSON_HEDLEY_GCC_HAS_BUILTIN(builtin,major,minor,patch) JSON_HEDLEY_GCC_VERSION_CHECK(major,minor,patch)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp801COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp821 #undef JSON_HEDLEY_GNUC_HAS_EXTENSIONCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp841#if defined(__has_declspec_attribute)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp861#elseCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp921#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_DIAGNOSTIC_POP)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp941#elif \COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp981# endifCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1001 JSON_HEDLEY_HAS_WARNING("-Wcast-qual") || \COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1021#endifCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1041 JSON_HEDLEY_DIAGNOSTIC_POPCOMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1061#elif JSON_HEDLEY_INTEL_CL_VERSION_CHECK(2021,1,0)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1081 (JSON_HEDLEY_TI_CL6X_VERSION_CHECK(7,2,0) && defined(__TI_GNU_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORT__)) || \COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1101#if JSON_HEDLEY_HAS_WARNING("-Wunknown-pragmas")COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1121#elif JSON_HEDLEY_IAR_VERSION_CHECK(8,0,0)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1141 #define JSON_HEDLEY_DIAGNOSTIC_DISABLE_UNKNOWN_CPP_ATTRIBUTES __pragma(warning(disable:5030))COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1161#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_DIAGNOSTIC_DISABLE_CAST_QUAL)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1181#elif JSON_HEDLEY_MSVC_VERSION_CHECK(1,0,0)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1241 #define JSON_HEDLEY_DEPRECATED(since) __declspec(deprecated)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1281 (JSON_HEDLEY_TI_CL6X_VERSION_CHECK(7,2,0) && defined(__TI_GNU_ATTRIBUTE_SUPPORT__)) || \COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1301 #define JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT_MSG(msg)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1361 #define JSON_HEDLEY_NO_RETURN __declspec(noreturn)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1381#if defined(JSON_HEDLEY_ASSUME)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1401 (JSON_HEDLEY_HAS_BUILTIN(__builtin_unreachable) && (!defined(JSON_HEDLEY_ARM_VERSION))) || \COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1421 JSON_HEDLEY_TI_CL2000_VERSION_CHECK(6,2,0) || \COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1441#if JSON_HEDLEY_GCC_HAS_WARNING("-Wvariadic-macros",4,0,0)COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1481 JSON_HEDLEY_TI_CL430_VERSION_CHECK(4,3,0) || \COMMENT
LOWlibs/json/json.hpp1501#endifCOMMENT
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Synthetic Comment Markers2 hits · 15 pts
SeverityFileLineSnippetContext
HIGHsrc/sqlitedb.cpp319 // Set foreign key settings as requested in the preferencesCOMMENT
HIGHsrc/TableBrowser.cpp739 // Create a new conditional format based on the current reference index and then modify it as requested using thCOMMENT
Verbosity Indicators5 hits · 7 pts
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LOWlibs/qscintilla_2.14.1/scintilla/lexers/LexPascal.cpp38- Folding of code blocks on appropriate keywords (the following code blocks areCODE
LOWlibs/qscintilla_2.14.1/scintilla/lexers/LexCmake.cpp266 // We need to check if the previous line has a \ in it...COMMENT
LOWlibs/qscintilla_2.14.1/scintilla/lexers/LexNsis.cpp406 // We need to check if the previous line has a \ in it...COMMENT
LOWsrc/MainWindow.cpp4057 // always want to have at least one dock open we need to check if this isCOMMENT
LOWsrc/sqlitetablemodel.cpp561 // After updating the value itself in the cache, we need to check if we need to update the rowid too.COMMENT
AI Slop Vocabulary2 hits · 6 pts
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MEDIUMlibs/qscintilla_2.14.1/scintilla/lexers/LexPowerPro.cpp25// - Modified HasFunction function to be a bit more robustCOMMENT
MEDIUMlibs/qscintilla_2.14.1/scintilla/lexers/LexBatch.cpp72 // Need a more robust algorithm to properly toggle Regular Keyword CheckingCOMMENT
Self-Referential Comments2 hits · 6 pts
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MEDIUMinstaller/macos/notarize.sh2# Create a new keychainCOMMENT
MEDIUMinstaller/macos/notarize.sh85# Create the DMGCOMMENT
Slop Phrases2 hits · 3 pts
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LOWlibs/qcustomplot-source/qcustomplot.h391// if you change anything here, don't forget to change it for older Qt versions below, too,COMMENT
LOWlibs/qcustomplot-source/qcustomplot.h420// if you change anything here, don't forget to change it for newer Qt versions above, too,COMMENT
Hyper-Verbose Identifiers2 hits · 2 pts
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LOWtools/windows/download_latest_sqlite.py25def get_latest_amalgamation_info(download_page):CODE
LOWtools/windows/download_latest_openssl3.py13def get_latest_universal_installer_info():CODE
Deep Nesting1 hit · 1 pts
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LOWtools/windows/download_latest_openssl3.py47CODE
Unused Imports1 hit · 1 pts
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LOWtests/createtestdb.py3CODE