Bringing Astrid Tasks back from the dead
This report summarizes scanner evidence for tasks/tasks, a Kotlin project with 5,704 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 339,038 lines of code across 2521 source files, recording 56 pattern matches distributed across 5 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 0.9 (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.
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.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 17 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 39 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 56 finding(s).
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.
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.
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.
The scanner identified 56 distinct pattern matches across 5 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.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRITICAL | …main/java/org/tasks/preferences/PermissionChecker.java | 45 | return org.tasks.extensions.Context.INSTANCE.canScheduleExactAlarms(context); | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …/activity/AbstractFragmentPluginAppCompatActivity.java | 21 | return com.twofortyfouram.locale.api.Intent.ACTION_EDIT_CONDITION.equals(action) | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …/activity/AbstractFragmentPluginAppCompatActivity.java | 22 | || com.twofortyfouram.locale.api.Intent.ACTION_EDIT_SETTING.equals(action); | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …/main/java/org/tasks/locale/receiver/FireReceiver.java | 22 | if (!com.twofortyfouram.locale.api.Intent.ACTION_FIRE_SETTING.equals(intent.getAction())) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …tlin/org/tasks/compose/settings/McpToolSettingsTest.kt | 105 | private fun androidx.compose.ui.test.ComposeUiTest.awaitText(text: String) = | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …pTest/kotlin/org/tasks/compose/edit/SubtaskDragTest.kt | 62 | private fun androidx.compose.ui.test.ComposeUiTest.drag(key: String, by: Offset) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …/src/desktopMain/kotlin/org/tasks/mcp/McpHttpServer.kt | 79 | private fun io.ktor.server.application.Application.installAuth() { | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …st/kotlin/org/tasks/viewmodel/TaskEditViewModelTest.kt | 240 | viewModel.state.value.task.dueDate.startOfDay(), | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 24 | fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyRemote( | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 47 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyCompletedAt(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 65 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyCreatedAt(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 76 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyModified(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL⚡ | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 93 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyTitle(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL⚡ | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 99 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyDescription(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL⚡ | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 105 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyPriority(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL⚡ | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 111 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyRecurrence(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL⚡ | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 123 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyDue(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL⚡ | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 129 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyStart(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL⚡ | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 135 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyCollapsed(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL⚡ | …c/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/caldav/iCalendarMerge.kt | 141 | private fun org.tasks.data.entity.Task.applyOrder(remote: VTodo, local: VTodo?) { | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …rc/jvmCommonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/repeats/Recur.jvm.kt | 34 | fun net.fortuna.ical4j.model.Recur.toRecur(): Recur = Recur( | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …rc/jvmCommonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/repeats/Recur.jvm.kt | 52 | net.fortuna.ical4j.model.Recur.Builder() | CODE |
| CRITICAL | …rc/jvmCommonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/repeats/Recur.jvm.kt | 53 | .frequency(net.fortuna.ical4j.model.Recur.Frequency.valueOf(frequency.name)) | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | …in/java/net/dinglisch/android/tasker/TaskerPlugin.java | 1 | // package com.yourcompany.yourcondition; | COMMENT |
| LOW | …in/java/net/dinglisch/android/tasker/TaskerPlugin.java | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | pebble/screenshots.sh | 1 | #!/bin/bash | COMMENT |
| LOW | pebble/src/c/protocol.h | 1 | #pragma once | COMMENT |
| LOW | pebble/src/c/protocol.h | 21 | #define ITEM_TYPE 2 | COMMENT |
| LOW | pebble/src/c/protocol.h | 41 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | pebble/src/c/protocol.h | 61 | #define MSG_GET_TASK 5 | COMMENT |
| LOW | pebble/src/c/protocol.h | 81 | #define UI_TYPE_TASK 1 | COMMENT |
| LOW | pebble/src/c/protocol.h | 101 | #define PERSIST_SORT_GROUP 10 | COMMENT |
| LOW | pebble/src/c/protocol.h | 121 | // picker is open, so it gets smaller ones and will trim sooner. | COMMENT |
| LOW | pebble/src/c/task_list_window.c | 41 | static uint32_t s_filter_text_color = 0; | COMMENT |
| LOW | pebble/src/c/task_list_window.c | 61 | // menu_layer_reload_data() and menu_layer_set_selected_index() both re-enter | COMMENT |
| LOW | pebble/src/c/menu_window.c | 41 | // Absolute list position shown at row 0 — see the same field in | COMMENT |
| LOW | composeApp/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/tasks/App.kt | 1401 | // Android the whole composition can be gone at the moment a teardown save fails, and | COMMENT |
| LOW | …onMain/kotlin/org/tasks/viewmodel/TaskEditViewModel.kt | 321 | .toState(appPreferences.datePickerPreferences()) | COMMENT |
| LOW | …onMain/kotlin/org/tasks/viewmodel/TaskEditViewModel.kt | 761 | // separate coroutine hop, so it can be arbitrarily behind - and after a failure it may | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW⚡ | …oidTest/java/com/todoroo/astrid/gcal/GCalHelperTest.kt | 91 | put(Calendars.ACCOUNT_NAME, "test@test.com") | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | …oidTest/java/com/todoroo/astrid/gcal/GCalHelperTest.kt | 97 | put(Calendars.OWNER_ACCOUNT, "test@test.com") | CODE |
| LOW⚡ | …oidTest/java/com/todoroo/astrid/gcal/GCalHelperTest.kt | 103 | .appendQueryParameter(Calendars.ACCOUNT_NAME, "test@test.com") | CODE |
| LOW | app/src/test/java/org/tasks/data/PrincipalTest.kt | 26 | assertEquals("user@example.com", principal.name) | CODE |
| LOW | app/src/main/res/layout/widget_row.xml | 78 | tools:text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean tristique magna mauris, vel vulputate el | CODE |
| LOW | app/src/main/res/layout/widget_row.xml | 78 | tools:text="Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aenean tristique magna mauris, vel vulputate el | CODE |
| LOW | …src/main/java/org/tasks/compose/edit/DescriptionRow.kt | 69 | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et d | CODE |
| LOW | …src/main/java/org/tasks/compose/edit/DescriptionRow.kt | 69 | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et d | CODE |
| LOW | app/src/main/java/org/tasks/compose/edit/TitleRow.kt | 100 | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et d | CODE |
| LOW | app/src/main/java/org/tasks/compose/edit/TitleRow.kt | 100 | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et d | CODE |
| LOW | …droidUnitTest/kotlin/org/tasks/api/SharedWritesTest.kt | 117 | Places.ADDRESS to "123 Main St", | CODE |
| LOW | …droidUnitTest/kotlin/org/tasks/api/SharedWritesTest.kt | 125 | assertEquals("address was not sent", "123 Main St", row.address) | CODE |
| LOW | …tasks/googleapis/DesktopGoogleTasksSynchronizerTest.kt | 69 | uuid = "someone@example.org", | CODE |
| LOW | …in/org/tasks/sync/microsoft/MicrosoftDeltaTokenTest.kt | 68 | username = "user@example.com", | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | CONTRIBUTING.md | 27 | 2. Add `tasks_mapbox_key_debug="<your_api_key>"` to your [`gradle.properties`](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide | CODE |
| HIGH | CONTRIBUTING.md | 38 | 4. Add `tasks_google_key_debug="<your_api_key>"` to your [`gradle.properties`](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | pebble/screenshots.sh | 5 | # Usage: | COMMENT |