AI Slop Code Risk Monitor

terraform-linters/tflint

Name: terraform-linters/tflint — 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 Pluggable Terraform Linter

1.1 Low pattern signal View on GitHub

Open-Source Code Quality, Security and Technical Debt Review

This report summarizes scanner evidence for terraform-linters/tflint, a Go project with 5,847 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 58,886 lines of code across 525 source files, recording 52 pattern matches distributed across 3 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

2026-10-31

Last Push

5.8K

Stars

Language

58.9K

Lines of Code

525

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 5.5/100 · LOW

Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 52 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 5.3/100 · LOW

Which changes need focused human review? 52 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 1LOW 49

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 52 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 Block49 hits · 49 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
LOW	terraform/config.go	281	if current == nil {	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/config.go	321	// opaque string.	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/loader.go	21	// It extends the general config-loading functionality in the Parser to support	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/variable.go	181		COMMENT
LOW	terraform/parser.go	41	// then combines these files into a single Module.	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/parser.go	141	if loadDiags.HasErrors() {	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/evaluator.go	81	func (d *evaluationData) GetCountAttr(addr addrs.CountAttr, rng hcl.Range) (cty.Value, hcl.Diagnostics) {	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/evaluator.go	141	// In Terraform, it is the responsibility of the VariableTransformer	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/module.go	281	// overrideLocalBlocks overrides "local" blocks	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/addrs/parse_ref.go	21	// ParseRef attempts to extract a referenceable address from the prefix of the	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/addrs/parse_ref.go	41		COMMENT
LOW	terraform/addrs/module_source.go	1	// Copyright (c) HashiCorp, Inc.	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/addrs/module_source.go	61	// module package.	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/addrs/module_source.go	81		COMMENT
LOW	terraform/addrs/module_instance.go	1	package addrs	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/addrs/module.go	1	package addrs	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/ipaddr/doc.go	1	// Package ipaddr is a fork of a subset of the Go standard "net" package which	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/ipaddr/ip.go	1	// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/references.go	1	package lang	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/functions.go	41		COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/functions_test.go	21	// in the langs package, via HCL.	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/functions_test.go	1061	},	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/data.go	1	package lang	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/scope.go	21	// SelfAddr is the address that the "self" object should be an alias of,	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/eval.go	41	// the resulting value. The value will be converted to the given type before	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/encoding.go	201	// Base64Decode decodes a string containing a base64 sequence.	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/encoding.go	221	return Base64EncodeFunc.Call([]cty.Value{str})	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/encoding.go	241	//	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/encoding.go	261	//	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/conversion.go	21	// its argument to a specific type or type kind.	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/conversion.go	161	}	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/filesystem.go	61	return cty.StringVal(string(src)).WithMarks(pathMarks), nil	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/filesystem.go	441	}	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/filesystem.go	461	func Basename(path cty.Value) (cty.Value, error) {	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/datetime.go	101	// strings using RFC 3339 "Date and Time format" syntax, and so timestamp	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/datetime.go	121	return TimeAddFunc.Call([]cty.Value{timestamp, duration})	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/datetime.go	141	func parseTimestamp(ts string) (time.Time, error) {	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/string.go	181	varsVal := args[1]	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/string.go	201	// of type string:	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/string.go	401	// the only way to render a template, because someone hasn't learned	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/lang/funcs/string.go	421		COMMENT
LOW	terraform/collections/unique_key.go	1	// Copyright (c) HashiCorp, Inc.	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/collections/unique_key.go	21	// unique keys for a particular other type.	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/collections/set.go	81	func (s Set[T]) Remove(v T) {	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/tfhcl/expand_spec.go	201	// This situation is tricky because HCL just works generically	COMMENT
LOW	terraform/tfhcl/public.go	1	// Package tfhcl is a fork of hcl/ext/dynblock.	COMMENT
LOW	tflint/config.go	161	Varfiles: []string{},	COMMENT
LOW	integrationtest/autofix/ignore_by_annotation/main.tf	1	# tflint-ignore: terraform_autofix_comment	COMMENT
LOW	integrationtest/autofix/multiple_fix/main.tf	1	// autofixed	COMMENT

Synthetic Comment Markers2 hits · 15 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
HIGH	terraform/parser.go	226	// have been loaded through this parser, with source filenames (as requested	COMMENT
HIGH	terraform/parser.go	233	// have been loaded through this parser, with source filenames (as requested	COMMENT

AI Slop Vocabulary1 hit · 3 pts

Severity	File	Line	Snippet	Context
MEDIUM	terraform/lang/funcs/datetime.go	188	// be robust here.	COMMENT