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This report summarizes scanner evidence for winsiderss/systeminformer, a C project with 16,385 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 1,523,663 lines of code across 1761 source files, recording 4001 pattern matches distributed across 7 syntactic categories. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 2.3 (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? 4000 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 1 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 4001 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 4001 distinct pattern matches across 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildHttpClient.cs | 181 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildVirusTotal.cs | 21 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDelta.cs | 341 | /// This command is kept for comparison against the legacy format. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDelta.cs | 361 | // { | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDelta.cs | 381 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDelta.cs | 401 | // Directory.CreateDirectory(testFolder); | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDelta.cs | 421 | // if (!PInvoke.ApplyPatchToFileW(patchFile, testSourceFile, testTargetFile, APPLY_OPTION_NONE)) | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDelta.cs | 441 | // BuildDelta.PrintFileInfo("Applied (copy)", testTargetFile, appliedBuffer); | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Win32.cs | 321 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Win32.cs | 461 | Program.PrintColorMessage($"[SDK] {SourceFile} copied to {DestinationFile}", ConsoleColor.Green, true, F | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildSourceForge.cs | 41 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildConfig.cs | 21 | public static class BuildConfig | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildConfig.cs | 41 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildConfig.cs | 61 | /// Gets an immutable array of PHNT (Platform Header Native Types) header file names. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildConfig.cs | 81 | // "ntmmapi.h", | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildConfig.cs | 101 | // "ntwow64.h", | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Build.cs | 341 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Build.cs | 361 | // For example, if the day of the year is 5, it will be converted to "005". | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Build.cs | 381 | var minuteOffset = TimeStart.Minute.ToString("D2"); | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Build.cs | 641 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Build.cs | 2101 | }); | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Build.cs | 2381 | // | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Build.cs | 2681 | { | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Build.cs | 2781 | * | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDevOps.cs | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDevOps.cs | 221 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDevOps.cs | 281 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDevOps.cs | 341 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDevOps.cs | 361 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDevOps.cs | 401 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDevOps.cs | 481 | /// Represents a project in Azure DevOps. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildDevOps.cs | 581 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/HeaderGen.cs | 21 | /// The copyright and license notice to prepend to the generated header. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/HeaderGen.cs | 321 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildStoreSubmission.cs | 21 | /// Client Id of your Microsoft Entra ID Directory app. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildStoreSubmission.cs | 41 | public string TokenEndpoint { get; set; } | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildStoreSubmission.cs | 321 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 21 | /// The Azure Key Vault REST API version used for all vault requests. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 101 | /// <param name="CancellationToken">Cancellation token to cancel the operation.</param> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 221 | return true; | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 421 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 481 | /// <param name="HttpClient">The HTTP client for making requests.</param> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 561 | /// <param name="HttpClient">The HTTP client for making requests.</param> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 681 | /// <param name="Certificate">The X.509 certificate with a private key for signing.</param> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 761 | /// <remarks> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 821 | return certificate.CopyWithPrivateKey(ecdsa); | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 901 | /// Gets or sets the certificate identifier URL. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/AzureClient.cs | 1061 | /// Gets or sets the X.509 certificate thumbprint (Base64URL-encoded). | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/DynData.cs | 101 | /// <summary> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/DynData.cs | 261 | public UInt16 Class; | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildAzure.cs | 21 | /// externally.</remarks> | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildAzure.cs | 141 | Program.PrintColorMessage("KeyVaultDigestSignFiles Failed.", ConsoleColor.Red); | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildAzure.cs | 261 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildAzure.cs | 281 | // new KeyValuePair<string, string>("scope", "https://vault.azure.net/.default"), | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Zip.cs | 161 | } | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Zip.cs | 321 | // var entry = archive.CreateEntryFromFile(filesToAdd[i], entryNames[i], System.IO.Compression.Compre | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Zip.cs | 341 | // } | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Zip.cs | 381 | WriteEntry(writer, fileStream, name, file, CompressionType.None, progressReporter, Flags); | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/Zip.cs | 401 | // shouldSkip = true; | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildGithub.cs | 21 | /// </summary> | COMMENT |
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| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEDIUM | tools/tests/phlib-test/include/fmt/format.h | 3383 | // Compilers are not aware of how to leverage the maximum value of | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | tools/peview/pvtheme.c | 457 | // surface stays seamless without leaving stale text behind on an update. The DC | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | tools/thirdparty/SymCrypt/lib/sha256.c | 1376 | // For the SHA-NI implementation we will utilize 128-bit XMM registers. Each | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | KSystemInformer/informer_fileop.c | 2531 | // of the file. Essentially, this is asserting that FLT_PARAMETERS has not | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | phlib/bcd.cpp | 586 | // is NOT the default {fwbootmgr} entry. So make the reboot seamless/effortless by | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | phnt/include/ntbcd.h | 2252 | /// Indicates whether the system should utilize the first 4GB of physical memory. | COMMENT |
| MEDIUM | phnt/include/ntpfapi.h | 810 | PfRpControlRobustAllStart = 2, // 2: Start the robust-all mode. | CODE |
| MEDIUM | phnt/include/ntpfapi.h | 811 | PfRpControlRobustAllStop = 3, // 3: Stop the robust-all mode. | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | tools/tests/phlib-test/include/fmt/format-inl.h | 1275 | // Step 1: integer promotion & Schubfach multiplier calculation. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/tests/phlib-test/include/fmt/format-inl.h | 1330 | // Step 2: Try larger divisor; remove trailing zeros if necessary. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/tests/phlib-test/include/fmt/format-inl.h | 1362 | // Step 3: Find the significand with the smaller divisor. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/thirdparty/jsonc/arraylist.c | 226 | // Because put_idx can skip entries, we need to check if | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | tools/thirdparty/SymCrypt/lib/dlgroup.c | 1767 | // Step 3: Acceptable pairs of L,N => skipped | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | tools/thirdparty/SymCrypt/lib/dlgroup.c | 1769 | // Step 6: nBitsOfSeed < nBitsOfQ => skipped | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | tools/thirdparty/SymCrypt/lib/dlgroup.c | 1857 | // Step 2: Verify that 2<= G <= p-1 | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | tools/thirdparty/SymCrypt/lib/dlgroup.c | 1866 | // Step 3: Verify that G^Q == 1 | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | tools/tests/phlib-test/include/fmt/format-inl.h | 1275 | // Step 1: integer promotion & Schubfach multiplier calculation. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/tests/phlib-test/include/fmt/format-inl.h | 1330 | // Step 2: Try larger divisor; remove trailing zeros if necessary. | COMMENT |
| LOW | tools/tests/phlib-test/include/fmt/format-inl.h | 1362 | // Step 3: Find the significand with the smaller divisor. | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | tools/thirdparty/SymCrypt/lib/dlgroup.c | 1767 | // Step 3: Acceptable pairs of L,N => skipped | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | tools/thirdparty/SymCrypt/lib/dlgroup.c | 1769 | // Step 6: nBitsOfSeed < nBitsOfQ => skipped | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | tools/thirdparty/SymCrypt/lib/dlgroup.c | 1857 | // Step 2: Verify that 2<= G <= p-1 | COMMENT |
| LOW⚡ | tools/thirdparty/SymCrypt/lib/dlgroup.c | 1866 | // Step 3: Verify that G^Q == 1 | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CRITICAL | tools/CustomBuildTool/BuildCat.cs | 73 | var subjectInfo = new Windows.Win32.Security.Cryptography.Sip.SIP_SUBJECTINFO(); | CODE |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIGH | phlib/avltree.c | 507 | // In this implementation, the balance factor is the right height minus left height. | COMMENT |
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | tools/thirdparty/jsonc/json_object.h | 436 | * ownership through json_object_get (& don't forget to do a json_object_put | COMMENT |