AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

sysstat/sysstat

Name: sysstat/sysstat — C 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).

Performance monitoring tools for Linux

1.0 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for sysstat/sysstat, a C project with 3,382 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 87,150 lines of code across 81 source files, recording 90 pattern matches distributed across 1 syntactic category. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 1.0 (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.

1.0

Adjusted Signal

1.0

Raw Pattern Score

100%

Time Factor

2026-10-26

Last Push

3.4K

Stars

Language

87.2K

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 5.0/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 90 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 5.0/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 90 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 0LOW 90

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 90 distinct pattern matches across 1 syntactic category. 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 Block90 hits · 90 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	pidstat.h	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	pidstat.h	21	#ifdef _POSIX_ARG_MAX	COMMENT
LOW	pidstat.h	41	#define P_A_KTAB 0x20	COMMENT
LOW	pidstat.h	61	#define P_D_ALL_PID 0x0002	COMMENT
LOW	pidstat.h	81	#define DISPLAY_ONELINE(m) (((m) & P_D_ONELINE) == P_D_ONELINE)	COMMENT
LOW	pidstat.h	101		COMMENT
LOW	pidstat.h	141	#endif	COMMENT
LOW	sa_conv.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	sadc.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	sadc.c	41	#include <libintl.h>	COMMENT
LOW	common.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	sadf_misc.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	ioconf.c	21	***************************************************************************	COMMENT
LOW	tapestat.c	21	* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA *	COMMENT
LOW	tapestat.c	41	#undef HZ /* sys/param.h defines HZ but needed for MAXPATHLEN */	COMMENT
LOW	iostat.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	iostat.c	41		COMMENT
LOW	rd_stats.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	svg_stats.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	systest.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	rd_sensors.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	81	***************************************************************************	COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	101	#define S_F_LOCAL_TIME 0x0000004000	COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	121	#define WANT_SINCE_BOOT(m) (((m) & S_F_SINCE_BOOT) == S_F_SINCE_BOOT)	COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	141	#define AUTOSCALE_ON(m) (((m) & S_F_SVG_AUTOSCALE) == S_F_SVG_AUTOSCALE)	COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	181	#define AO_F_FILESYSTEM 0x00000001	COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	201	#define K_EIP6 "EIP6"	COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	221	#define K_SOFT "SOFT"	COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	241	#define K_SHOWIDLE "showidle"	COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	281	#define MAX_NR_SERIAL_LINES 65536	COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	301	#define USE_SA_FILE 1	COMMENT
LOW	sa.h	1361	#define MOCK_MODE TRUE	COMMENT
LOW	mpstat.c	21	*/	COMMENT
LOW	sa_common.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	activity.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	cifsiostat.c	21	***************************************************************************	COMMENT
LOW	common.h	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	common.h	61	#define SEC_PER_DAY 3600 * 24	COMMENT
LOW	common.h	81	#define K_ALL "ALL"	COMMENT
LOW	common.h	101	#define DEV_PREFIX "/dev/"	COMMENT
LOW	common.h	121	#define DEV_DISK_BY PRE "/dev/disk/by"	COMMENT
LOW	common.h	141	#define ENV_REPEAT_HEADER "S_REPEAT_HEADER"	COMMENT
LOW	common.h	281	*/	COMMENT
LOW	rndr_stats.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	pidstat.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	pidstat.c	41	#include "pidstat.h"	COMMENT
LOW	iostat.h	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	iostat.h	21	#define I_D_MEGABYTES 0x000200	COMMENT
LOW	iostat.h	41	#define DISPLAY_KILOBYTES(m) (((m) & I_D_KILOBYTES) == I_D_KILOBYTES)	COMMENT
LOW	pr_stats.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	tapestat.h	21	#define T_D_UNIT 0x00040	COMMENT
LOW	count.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	json_stats.c	21		COMMENT
LOW	systest.h	1	/*	COMMENT
LOW	systest.h	21	/* Test mode: Use alternate files and syscalls */	COMMENT
LOW	systest.h	41		COMMENT
LOW	rd_stats.h	21	/* Maximum length of USB manufacturer string */	COMMENT
LOW	rd_stats.h	61	#define MULTI_R_NET_SNMP_IDX 5	COMMENT
LOW	rd_stats.h	81	#define NET_RPC_NFSD PRE "/proc/net/rpc/nfsd"	COMMENT
LOW	rd_stats.h	101	#define SYSFS_IDVENDOR "idVendor"	COMMENT
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