Public report of 0x7c13/Notepads, published 23 October 2026. It has the same score, grades and number of
findings as the full report. The details of security findings (where they are in the code, which known
vulnerabilities and which passwords or keys were found) are left out, so nobody can use them against the project.
Public
Executive reportMeasured under the Code Assurance Index, an open standard for code quality, using its published scoring rules (rubric version 2026.10.5). Watchdog signed this survey and filed it in the standard's public register, where anyone can look it up by its survey ID. Check this survey →
Signed and filed in the standard's public register, 23 October 2026, 07:42 UTC · Survey ID cd_9c9e35c40d274ddaa899cb29d8bd550a
0x7c13/Notepads
Measured 23 October 2026, 07:37 UTC, at code version 6ec270c
A regression is a drop of 0.5 points or more in the score, or of 2.5 or more out of 10 in a dimension, since the last survey.
Test distribution is not measured: No automated tests.
Bus factor is not measured: No living knowledge left to concentrate.
Boundary Type-Coupling is not measured: Bounded contexts not declared.
CAI scoreWeak
CriticalWeakAdequateStrongExemplary
Up 1 since the last survey
The score is built from these lenses. Each lens grades one area of the code, such as how easy it is to change or how well it is protected. The weakest lens counts most, so one weak area pulls the score down instead of being averaged away.
A medium codebase: 28,654 lines of product code in 2 projects, tests not counted · Estimated rebuild effort: about 0.4 person-years · Weakest lens: Maturity, 38
Findings by how serious they are
48 critical210 serious177 minor
5 dimensions are left out of the score. For each one, Watchdog either couldn't measure it in this code, or found no evidence of the safeguard it looks for, such as a tested backup restore. They count neither for nor against the score, and Limitations lists each one with its reason.
This survey was produced by
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Analyzer
Watchdog engine 1.0.0
Measured
23 October 2026, 07:37 UTC
A measurement, not a certificate. The Code Assurance Index records a number
together with the evidence it was worked out from, so anyone can recalculate it, but it doesn't certify or guarantee
the code. The standard was written by Canine Development, which also builds Watchdog. It is open to any tool that
implements it, and today Watchdog is the only one that does.
The score is deterministic, which means the same code always gets the same score. Watchdog works it out with tools that follow published rules, and an AI model never decides it, so anyone who applies the same rules to the same code gets the same number. How it is done is explained under Methodology ▸
57of 61 dimensions measured by tools. The other 4 are advisory notes from an AI model, which explain the code but don't count towards the score.
422of 435 findings point to an exact file and line, so you can open each one in the code. The other 13 concern the repository as a whole, such as missing documentation.
61dimensions across 6 lenses, read from 28,654 lines of product code in 2 projects.
0x7c13/Notepads scores 49 out of 100 and is rated Weak, while five of its six lenses score higher still: Performance at 100, rated Exemplary, and Architecture at 89, Security and Compliance at 60 and Code Health and Production Readiness at 52, all rated Adequate.
The score is lower than those five because the weakest lens counts most, and here that is Maturity, which scores 38 and is rated Weak. Its Knowledge Freshness dimension scores 0 out of 10, and until that reaches 4, Maturity can't be rated higher than Adequate. The first actions are to record your significant design decisions and to resolve the 1 No automated tests finding(s) in Code Coverage, and if Maturity rose to 70, the score would rise from 49 to about 57.
48 findings are critical: 29 in Explicit Debt, 17 in Static Analysis (SAST), one in Code Coverage and one in Project dependency cycles.
Watchdog couldn't measure 4 dimensions in this code, among them Dependency Hygiene, IL Efficiency and Platform End-of-Life, so they are left out of the score. The product code is 28,654 lines, which would take an estimated 0.4 person-years, around €63,000, to rebuild.
A lens is capped at Adequate while one of its dimensions scores below 4 out of 10, however well the rest of the lens does. That way a serious problem in one place always shows in the lens's rating.
How the score is built: what each lens counts forThe lenses don't count equally. The weakest lens counts most, the next weakest a little less, and so on, so a weak area pulls the score down instead of being averaged away. In the bar below, each part's width shows how much that lens counts and its colour shows its rating. Improving the widest part moves the score most, and as that lens improves, it counts for less, because another lens becomes the weakest.
Watchdog compares every finding with the previous survey's. A finding that has only moved to another line in the same file counts as the same finding, so only new findings appear here. Advisory notes from the AI model are left out, because the model words them afresh in every survey.
Fixed since the last survey: 116 findings
These 116 critical or serious findings were in the previous survey, on 9 October 2026, and are gone from this one. The first 100 are listed here.
Coupling · Off the main sequence: Notepads.Controls
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: TryAddOrReplaceTokenInFutureAccessListAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FutureAccessListUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: SaveContentToFileAsync src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OnPaste src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: Sets_SetDraggedOutside src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetTextEditorSessionDataAsync src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: BuildTextEditorSessionDataAsync src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: RecoverTextEditorAsync src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: BackupTextAsync src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: BuildOpenRecentButtonSubItemsAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.MainMenu.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OpenNewFilesAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OpenFileAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OpenFilesAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OpenFileUsingFileSavePickerAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: SaveInternalAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: SaveAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: SaveAllAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: RenameFileAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: PrintAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: PrintAllAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OnStatusBarVisibilityChanged src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: ModificationFlyoutSelection_OnClick src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: ReloadFileFromDiskAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OpenContainingFolderAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: RenameFileAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: PathIndicatorClicked src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: EnterExitCompactOverlayMode src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.ViewModes.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetMostRecentlyUsedListAsync src/Notepads/Services/MRUService.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetHostBackdropAcrylicBrushAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/BrushUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetDataFeedAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/Downloader.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: InitializeFileSystemLoggingAsync src/Notepads/Services/LoggingService.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: InitializeLogFileWriterBackgroundTaskAsync src/Notepads/Services/LoggingService.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: WriteLogMessagesAsync src/Notepads/Services/LoggingService.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: TryFlushMessageQueueAsync src/Notepads/Services/LoggingService.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: LaunchProtocolAsync src/Notepads/Services/NotepadsProtocolService.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OpenDialogAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/DialogManager.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OpenDialogInternalAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/DialogManager.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OnThemeChanged src/Notepads/Controls/Markdown/MarkdownExtensionView.xaml.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: MarkdownTextBlock_ImageResolving src/Notepads/Controls/Markdown/MarkdownExtensionView.xaml.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetImageAsync src/Notepads/Controls/Markdown/MarkdownExtensionView.xaml.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: MarkdownTextBlock_OnLinkClicked src/Notepads/Controls/Markdown/MarkdownExtensionView.xaml.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: ActivateAsync src/Notepads/Services/ActivationService.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: FileActivatedAsync src/Notepads/Services/ActivationService.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: CommandActivatedAsync src/Notepads/Services/ActivationService.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OpenFileFromCommandLineAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetFilePropertiesAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetDateModifiedAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: IsFileWritableAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetFileAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: ReadFileAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: ReadFileAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: WriteTextToFileAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: WriteTextToFileAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: ExecuteFileIOOperationWithRetries src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetOrCreateFileAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: DeleteFileAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetOrCreateAppFolderAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: CreateFileAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: FileExistsAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: BuildInternalAsync src/Notepads/Brushes/HostBackdropAcrylicBrush.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OnEnergySaverStatusChanged src/Notepads/Brushes/HostBackdropAcrylicBrush.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OnAdvancedEffectsEnabledChanged src/Notepads/Brushes/HostBackdropAcrylicBrush.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: BuildHostBackdropAcrylicBrushInternalAsync src/Notepads/Brushes/HostBackdropAcrylicBrush.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: LoadImageBrushAsync src/Notepads/Brushes/HostBackdropAcrylicBrush.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetBackupFolderAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/SessionUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetAllFilesInBackupFolderAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/SessionUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: IsSessionMetaDataFileExists src/Notepads/Utilities/SessionUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: GetSerializedSessionMetaDataAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/SessionUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: SaveSerializedSessionMetaDataAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/SessionUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: DeleteSerializedSessionMetaDataAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/SessionUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: CreateNewFileInBackupFolderAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/SessionUtility.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: ActivateAsync src/Notepads/App.xaml.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OpenNewAppInstanceAsync src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: Sets_Loaded src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: App_EnteredBackground src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: MainPage_CloseRequested src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs
Cancellation propagation · Async method without CancellationToken: OnSessionBackupAndRestoreOptionChanged src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs
Rebuild cost: about €63,000 · Estimate
Cost to rebuild
€20,000 to €110,000, for 339 to 1,108 hours of work, about 0.4 person-years for one engineer
Difficulty of the problem
Standard, judged from the kind of software and how it is built. Code that solves a harder problem, such as payments or medical bookings, costs more per line to write.
Quality factor
×0.7 at a score of 49. Better code takes more work to write, so the factor is ×1.0 at a score of 70, lower below it and higher above it.
Size
Medium: 28,654 lines of product code, of which 30% is declarations and boilerplate, 17% straight logic and 54% logic with branches
Comment lines
The estimate prices 23,371 lines. Comment lines count towards the size of 28,654 lines but aren't priced as work.
How the estimate is made: Watchdog prices the hours a team would need to write this code again, at €60 to €95 an hour. Declarations and boilerplate are priced at a fast rate and logic at a slower one, and the logic is then multiplied by the difficulty of the problem and by the quality factor. The estimate can be about 30% off either way, and it moves most with the hourly rate and the difficulty.
Top priorities
The three actions that raise the score most for the work they take. The full ranked list is in the Roadmap.
1
Record your significant design decisions.
Write one short document per decision, giving its date, the situation, the decision and its consequences, and keep them together with your other design documents. A docs/adr folder with each file named by number and title is the easiest place to find them.
Each conclusion below combines several dimensions into one point that no single dimension shows, and lists the measurements it rests on.
Where the investment is most exposed · Value at risk
This code would cost about €63,000 to build again, about 0.4 person-years of work. Its weakest lens is Maturity, at 38 (Weak). Maturity is about how well the project explains and looks after itself, which decides whether a new developer, or a new supplier, can take over. Because the weakest lens counts most in the score, work on Maturity also moves the score most.
Based on: the rebuild estimate · the Maturity grade · how much each lens counts
What to do: Start with the Maturity actions in Top priorities.
If you do one thing first · First action
Record your significant design decisions. Of all the actions in this report, it raises the score most for the work it takes: about 8 points for medium effort. The next survey will show the change in the score.
Based on: the ranked actions in Top priorities, by score gain and effort
Architecture — module dependency graph
Project dependencies, layered top-to-bottom; arrows show direction. Any dashed red edge points upward or sideways — a layering smell or cycle. A clean layered graph has none.
Architecture: which parts of the code depend on which
The code is divided into modules, groups of code that each handle one part of the product, and a module depends on another when it uses code from it. The table lists the modules both down the side and across the top, in an order where each module should only use modules listed above it. A number in a cell means the module on that row uses the module in that column, and it counts the pairs of building blocks (types) that connect them. The one thing to look for is a mark above the diagonal line. It means two or more modules use each other in a loop (a dependency cycle), so none of them can be changed, tested or released on its own.
22 modules, with 36 dependencies between them. One loop runs through 8 of the modules, marked above the diagonal.
Which modules use which. The module on each row uses the module in each column, and the number counts the pairs of types that connect them. A cell above the diagonal is part of a loop.
Notepads.Controls.DiffViewer uses Notepads.Commands, so a change to Notepads.Commands can break Notepads.Controls.DiffViewer, while a change to Notepads.Controls.DiffViewer can't break Notepads.Commands.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.DiffViewer uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Controls.FindAndReplace uses Notepads.Commands, so a change to Notepads.Commands can break Notepads.Controls.FindAndReplace, while a change to Notepads.Controls.FindAndReplace can't break Notepads.Commands.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.FindAndReplace uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
10→17 Notepads.Core.SessionDataModels uses Notepads.Controls.TextEditorpart of a loop✕
Connections
1 pair of types, where a type in Notepads.Core.SessionDataModels uses a type in Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.
Notepads.Core.SessionDataModels uses Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, so a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can break Notepads.Core.SessionDataModels, while a change to Notepads.Core.SessionDataModels can't break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.
Position
Above the diagonal, so it is part of a loop. Neither module can be changed, tested or released on its own until one of these dependencies is removed.
11→13 Notepads.Models uses Notepads.Utilitiespart of a loop✕
Connections
1 pair of types, where a type in Notepads.Models uses a type in Notepads.Utilities.
Notepads.Models uses Notepads.Utilities, so a change to Notepads.Utilities can break Notepads.Models, while a change to Notepads.Models can't break Notepads.Utilities.
Position
Above the diagonal, so it is part of a loop. Neither module can be changed, tested or released on its own until one of these dependencies is removed.
Notepads.Core uses Notepads.Core.SessionDataModels, so a change to Notepads.Core.SessionDataModels can break Notepads.Core, while a change to Notepads.Core can't break Notepads.Core.SessionDataModels.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Core uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Core uses Notepads.Models, so a change to Notepads.Models can break Notepads.Core, while a change to Notepads.Core can't break Notepads.Models.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Core uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
12→13 Notepads.Core uses Notepads.Utilitiespart of a loop✕
Connections
3 pairs of types, where a type in Notepads.Core uses a type in Notepads.Utilities.
Notepads.Core uses Notepads.Utilities, so a change to Notepads.Utilities can break Notepads.Core, while a change to Notepads.Core can't break Notepads.Utilities.
Position
Above the diagonal, so it is part of a loop. Neither module can be changed, tested or released on its own until one of these dependencies is removed.
12→14 Notepads.Core uses Notepads.Extensionspart of a loop✕
Connections
1 pair of types, where a type in Notepads.Core uses a type in Notepads.Extensions.
Notepads.Core uses Notepads.Extensions, so a change to Notepads.Extensions can break Notepads.Core, while a change to Notepads.Core can't break Notepads.Extensions.
Position
Above the diagonal, so it is part of a loop. Neither module can be changed, tested or released on its own until one of these dependencies is removed.
12→17 Notepads.Core uses Notepads.Controls.TextEditorpart of a loop✕
Connections
4 pairs of types, where a type in Notepads.Core uses a type in Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.
Notepads.Core uses Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, so a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can break Notepads.Core, while a change to Notepads.Core can't break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.
Position
Above the diagonal, so it is part of a loop. Neither module can be changed, tested or released on its own until one of these dependencies is removed.
12→22 Notepads.Core uses Notepads.Controlspart of a loop✕
Connections
4 pairs of types, where a type in Notepads.Core uses a type in Notepads.Controls.
Notepads.Core uses Notepads.Controls, so a change to Notepads.Controls can break Notepads.Core, while a change to Notepads.Core can't break Notepads.Controls.
Position
Above the diagonal, so it is part of a loop. Neither module can be changed, tested or released on its own until one of these dependencies is removed.
Notepads.Utilities uses Notepads.Controls.Dialog, so a change to Notepads.Controls.Dialog can break Notepads.Utilities, while a change to Notepads.Utilities can't break Notepads.Controls.Dialog.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Utilities uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Utilities uses Notepads.Models, so a change to Notepads.Models can break Notepads.Utilities, while a change to Notepads.Utilities can't break Notepads.Models.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Utilities uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Utilities uses Notepads.Core, so a change to Notepads.Core can break Notepads.Utilities, while a change to Notepads.Utilities can't break Notepads.Core.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Utilities uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Extensions uses Notepads.Utilities, so a change to Notepads.Utilities can break Notepads.Extensions, while a change to Notepads.Extensions can't break Notepads.Utilities.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Extensions uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
14→17 Notepads.Extensions uses Notepads.Controls.TextEditorpart of a loop✕
Connections
1 pair of types, where a type in Notepads.Extensions uses a type in Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.
Notepads.Extensions uses Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, so a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can break Notepads.Extensions, while a change to Notepads.Extensions can't break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.
Position
Above the diagonal, so it is part of a loop. Neither module can be changed, tested or released on its own until one of these dependencies is removed.
Notepads.Services uses Notepads.Controls.Helpers, so a change to Notepads.Controls.Helpers can break Notepads.Services, while a change to Notepads.Services can't break Notepads.Controls.Helpers.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Services uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Services uses Notepads.Utilities, so a change to Notepads.Utilities can break Notepads.Services, while a change to Notepads.Services can't break Notepads.Utilities.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Services uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Views.Settings uses Notepads.Utilities, so a change to Notepads.Utilities can break Notepads.Views.Settings, while a change to Notepads.Views.Settings can't break Notepads.Utilities.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Views.Settings uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses Notepads.Commands, so a change to Notepads.Commands can break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, while a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can't break Notepads.Commands.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses Notepads.Controls.GoTo, so a change to Notepads.Controls.GoTo can break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, while a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can't break Notepads.Controls.GoTo.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses Notepads.Controls.FindAndReplace, so a change to Notepads.Controls.FindAndReplace can break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, while a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can't break Notepads.Controls.FindAndReplace.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses Notepads.Models, so a change to Notepads.Models can break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, while a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can't break Notepads.Models.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses Notepads.Utilities, so a change to Notepads.Utilities can break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, while a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can't break Notepads.Utilities.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses Notepads.Extensions, so a change to Notepads.Extensions can break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, while a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can't break Notepads.Extensions.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
17→22 Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses Notepads.Controlspart of a loop✕
Connections
1 pair of types, where a type in Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses a type in Notepads.Controls.
Notepads.Controls.TextEditor uses Notepads.Controls, so a change to Notepads.Controls can break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, while a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can't break Notepads.Controls.
Position
Above the diagonal, so it is part of a loop. Neither module can be changed, tested or released on its own until one of these dependencies is removed.
Notepads.Controls.FilePicker uses Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, so a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can break Notepads.Controls.FilePicker, while a change to Notepads.Controls.FilePicker can't break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.FilePicker uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Controls.Markdown uses Notepads.Extensions, so a change to Notepads.Extensions can break Notepads.Controls.Markdown, while a change to Notepads.Controls.Markdown can't break Notepads.Extensions.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.Markdown uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Controls.Markdown uses Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, so a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can break Notepads.Controls.Markdown, while a change to Notepads.Controls.Markdown can't break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.Markdown uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
19→22 Notepads.Controls.Markdown uses Notepads.Controlspart of a loop✕
Connections
2 pairs of types, where a type in Notepads.Controls.Markdown uses a type in Notepads.Controls.
Notepads.Controls.Markdown uses Notepads.Controls, so a change to Notepads.Controls can break Notepads.Controls.Markdown, while a change to Notepads.Controls.Markdown can't break Notepads.Controls.
Position
Above the diagonal, so it is part of a loop. Neither module can be changed, tested or released on its own until one of these dependencies is removed.
Notepads.Controls.Print uses Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, so a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can break Notepads.Controls.Print, while a change to Notepads.Controls.Print can't break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls.Print uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Views.MainPage uses Notepads.Commands, so a change to Notepads.Commands can break Notepads.Views.MainPage, while a change to Notepads.Views.MainPage can't break Notepads.Commands.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Views.MainPage uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Views.MainPage uses Notepads.Core, so a change to Notepads.Core can break Notepads.Views.MainPage, while a change to Notepads.Views.MainPage can't break Notepads.Core.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Views.MainPage uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Views.MainPage uses Notepads.Utilities, so a change to Notepads.Utilities can break Notepads.Views.MainPage, while a change to Notepads.Views.MainPage can't break Notepads.Utilities.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Views.MainPage uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Views.MainPage uses Notepads.Services, so a change to Notepads.Services can break Notepads.Views.MainPage, while a change to Notepads.Views.MainPage can't break Notepads.Services.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Views.MainPage uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Views.MainPage uses Notepads.Controls.TextEditor, so a change to Notepads.Controls.TextEditor can break Notepads.Views.MainPage, while a change to Notepads.Views.MainPage can't break Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Views.MainPage uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
Notepads.Controls uses Notepads.Controls.Markdown, so a change to Notepads.Controls.Markdown can break Notepads.Controls, while a change to Notepads.Controls can't break Notepads.Controls.Markdown.
Position
Below the diagonal: Notepads.Controls uses a module listed above it, which is the healthy direction.
At a glance — Code Health · 52% · Adequate · gated by X1 ·
Findings mapped to OWASP categories; the specific CVEs/secrets are in the Security dimension cards below and findings.md (redacted only on the public version of this report).
OWASP category
Findings
Severity
A05:2025 — Injection
18
High / Critical
A03:2025 — Software Supply Chain Failures
5
Medium
Roadmap
Begin by resolving the 112 orphaned files in the Knowledge Freshness dimension, prioritizing NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs, FileSystemUtility.cs, and NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs. Next, establish architectural clarity by documenting significant design decisions in a dedicated ADR folder and address the lack of automated testing by implementing coverage and distribution for the identified gaps. Finally, improve onboarding by adding a build and run quick-start section to the root README.
Ranked by impact ÷ effort. "Helps" is the estimated gain on the 0–100 health score.
Do this
Helps
Effort
Dimension
Record your significant design decisions. Write one short document per decision, giving its date, the situation, the decision and its consequences, and keep them together with your other design documents. A docs/adr folder with each file named by number and title is the easiest place to find them.
Resolve the 112 Orphaned file finding(s) in Knowledge Freshness — start with NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs, FileSystemUtility.cs, NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs.
Every finding carries one of four grades. Three say how serious it is. The fourth says this
survey could not settle it — and it is a grade, not a gap.
Critical — 48
A definite problem that already costs you something and drags the score down: a
missing authorisation check, a dependency with a known exploit, a build that does not reproduce. Failure here
tends to cause failures elsewhere.
Serious — 210
Likely wrong, but not failing yet. It degrades
the codebase over a longer horizon and can cause failures elsewhere — not urgent this week, not something to
carry for two years either.
Minor — 177
Recorded, with no effect on how the codebase functions.
Present so the survey is complete, not because it needs doing.
Could not be resolved — 5
Something this survey could not settle
from the outside, and which could be critical or serious. Either a control was required and no
positive evidence of it exists in the repository — a backup job that nothing shows was ever restored from proves
nothing about restores — or our own analysis could not run over that part of the tree. This is not a clean
result. These are excluded from the score rather than awarded a pass, so the number on the cover neither
rewards nor penalises them: if you act on this survey without resolving them, you carry that risk yourself. Each
one is named under Limitations.
Methodology & how to trust this report
Watchdog is a deep, periodic assessment — run each sprint, monthly, or quarterly, taking the time to go wider and deeper than a quick check and surfacing in one coherent report what you'd otherwise piece together from a dozen separate tools. It scores deterministically: the same commit yields the same score, every run. 57 of 61 evaluated dimensions are computed purely by tools and static analysis (confidence 1.0); 4 documentation/naming judgement(s) are LLM-assisted and labelled advisory. Overall confidence is 0.8 — the weighted average across measured dimensions; it falls as more of the score leans on LLM-assisted judgement and rises when it's fully tool-backed.
Every figure here is one of three kinds, and we label which: ✓ Measured — a deterministic fact (LoC, complexity, coverage); ~ Modeled — an estimate from a stated model (cost, effort, value-at-risk), always a range with its assumptions, never a precise fact; ◐ Advisory — an LLM prose judgement. We never present a modelled estimate as if it were measured. Perfect or absent scores carry their provenance too (ADR-0011): ✓ Tool-verified means the property itself was measured across the surface; ○ Nothing flagged means the probes came back clean — a claim bounded by what a repository can show; ⊘ Not evidenced means a working control (a tested restore, an automated rollback) showed no positive evidence — absence of evidence is not evidence of a control, so it's excluded from the score rather than awarded a spurious 10; ◐ Sampled · advisory marks an LLM verdict over a bounded sample — advisory, never a deterministic measurement.
What we checked — 61 dimensions across the health lenses
Each chip is a dimension scored from real signals across architecture, testing, dependencies, security & compliance, documentation, git-history and code quality — in one coherent pass. A surface report typically covers a handful.
How to trust any code-health report — three questions
Can you open the finding? Real findings cite a repo-relative file and line you can open at the cited line — never an absolute scratch path. Here, 422 of 435 do; the remainder are repo-wide signals — a dimension-level measurement, not a single line. (Every path in this report is repo-relative by construction: paths are normalized at the producer and the report is rejected if any rooted path leaks through.)
Is there a tool behind the number? Every score below names the method that produced it — Roslyn, git, a scanner, or (for a handful of documentation/naming dimensions) an LLM labelled sampled · advisory — not a narrative.
Does re-running give the same result? Run it again on the same commit and the score — and this report, byte for byte — is identical. A report whose numbers move between runs is describing the run, not the code.
This report answers yes to all three. That's the bar to hold any assessment to.
Tools & methods
The actual versions used this run (captured at analysis time) — re-run on the same commit for the identical score.
Method
Backs
Version
Evaluator
Roslyn static analysis
Complexity, cohesion, coupling, dead code, API surface, layering
What ran differently this time — a tool absent, degraded, or that fell back to an estimate. Named openly, not folded silently into the scores. A degraded run also records its exact cause in diagnostics.md.
D12 Dependency Hygiene — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. `dotnet list package` did not return usable output (restore or query failed); no outdated/vulnerable/deprecated data to assess. The tool said: `dotnet list package` exited 1 with no output.
D16 Bus Factor — not measured this run — This is a true statement about the repository that carries nothing for its owner to act on, so it is reported here rather than as a defect in their code. All 115 significant source file(s) were last meaningfully changed so long ago that no living knowledge remains — nothing since has been substantial enough to re-establish ownership (a broad, mechanical sweep that touches many files shallowly does not count, and neither does no activity at all). There is no concentration to measure, so the bus factor is not scored. This is not a clean bill: nobody currently holds working knowledge of this code (see D34 Knowledge Freshness). Counted over 62 of the 209 production source files in this repository: 94 are under the ~2,400-byte size floor this dimension measures over, and the remaining 53 have no attributable history left to measure.
D17 Explicit Debt — measured, with a gap in what it reached — Watchdog measured this, but not all of it. What it did not reach is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — so the numbers on that dimension cover less than the repository, and the part left out is not evidence that it would have passed. The C# workspace loaded this repository's projects but reported a load failure, and the dead-code reference search is unreliable over a graph that did not load cleanly, so it was skipped. The other debt markers on this row were read; dead symbols were not, and their absence from the score is not a finding that the code has none. First load diagnostic: Failure: Msbuild failed when processing the file 'src/Notepads/Notepads.csproj' with message: Project does not contain 'Compile' target.
D18 Solution Shape — measured, with a gap in what it reached — Watchdog measured this, but not all of it. What it did not reach is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — so the numbers on that dimension cover less than the repository, and the part left out is not evidence that it would have passed. `dotnet build` reported 2 error(s), and the diagnostics it printed were: MSB4019: The imported project "/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/10.0.400/Microsoft/WindowsXaml/v18.0/Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets" was not found. Confirm that the expression in the Import declaration "$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)/Microsoft/WindowsXaml/v$(VisualStudioVersion)/Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets", which evaluated to "/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/10.0.400//Microsoft/WindowsXaml/v18.0/Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets", is correct, and that the file exists on disk.. None of them is a .NET compiler diagnostic, which is the only signal this check reads as "the code does not compile", so the failure is recorded as a build-environment gap rather than a code defect. The usual causes are a project that targets a platform this run cannot build (a Windows-only target framework on a Linux worker) or a build step that shells out to a tool the image does not carry. Solution Shape is scored on structure and is NOT capped. Semantic analysis is independent of this build and covers every project that loaded — but a project whose restore did not complete has no resolved references, so treat its results as absent rather than clean. ★ The reach of that test, stated so this classification can be checked rather than taken on trust: it reads the C# (CS), Visual Basic (BC) and F# (FS) compiler series, and treats SDK, NuGet-restore and MSBuild codes (NETSDK, NU, MSB) as evidence that the build did not run rather than that the code is broken — read the diagnostics named above and judge for yourself. You can widen what we reach: if this build is meant to run off its own platform, without host tooling we do not carry, the diagnostics named above are what stopped it. If it is deliberately platform-bound — a Windows-only desktop product, say — there is nothing to do here: the note records our reach, not a defect in your build.
D22 Internal API Consistency — not measured this run — This is a true statement about the repository that carries nothing for its owner to act on, so it is reported here rather than as a defect in their code. The loaded project set declares no packable project and no `.Contracts` project, so there is no intentionally-exposed surface for API consistency to be judged over.
D23 Boundary Type-Coupling — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. Large codebase (28,654 production LoC in the .NET projects) with no declared bounded contexts — cross-boundary type coupling is unassessed Bounded contexts cannot be inferred from a codebase that is not physically organised by them (D-321), so with none declared there are no boundaries for the coupling pass to measure across. You can widen what we reach: name this codebase's bounded contexts (≥2 module groups, e.g. per subsystem) so cross-boundary type coupling can be assessed. Declare them in `.codehealth/config.yaml` at the repository root (create it if absent), mapping each context name to the module-path or namespace prefixes that belong to it — e.g. `architecture:` → `contexts:` → `Billing: ["src/billing", "Acme.Billing"]`, `Catalog: ["src/catalog", "Acme.Catalog"]`.
D32 Data Compliance (PII/GDPR) — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. `src/Notepads.Controls/SetsView/SetsView.HeaderLayout.cs` produced a parse error, so every rule in this engine's `gdpr.yml` was absent there. That absence is NOT a clean result: these rules detect personal data crossing a boundary into a log sink, a URL or browser storage, and a file that was never parsed cannot report any of the three. The rest of the tree analysed normally and its rows above stand; only these files are unaccounted for. You can widen what we reach: fix the syntax error (or exclude the file deliberately) and re-scan to cover it.
D39 IL Efficiency — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. IL NOT MEASURED: the analyzer's own build of this repository failed for an ENVIRONMENT reason (exit 1) — MSBuild's engine or the CLR gave up, or our image does not carry the SDK band/targeting pack this repository needs. This is OUR limitation, not a defect in the repo, and it is not a statement that this repository fails to build. D18 owns the question of whether this repository builds; it was not answered here.
D44 Platform End-of-Life — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. This dimension reads a project's own statement about the platform it runs on: a TargetFramework in a .NET project file, a .nvmrc or .python-version, a capped requires-python, a Rust toolchain file or Cargo.toml rust-version, a .go-version, .java-version, .ruby-version, .tool-versions or .sdkmanrc, a go.mod go directive, a Maven or Gradle Java level or toolchain, a Gemfile's ruby directive, a mix.exs elixir requirement, a rebar.config minimum_otp_vsn, a pubspec.yaml SDK constraint, a build.sbt scalaVersion, or a framework major pinned by a dependency constraint. This repository carries none of them, so nothing about its platform was established. That is a gap in this analyzer's coverage, NOT a finding that the platform is supported — a language whose runtime is declared elsewhere (Package.swift, a Dockerfile) is simply not read here yet.
AXB1 Runtime evidence locked — no reproducible boot — not measured this run — Watchdog could not measure this here. That is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — and it is neither a defect in this repository nor evidence that the check would have passed. Subject: a native UI project (src/Notepads.Controls/DropShadowPanel/DropShadowPanel.xaml). The Runtime Evidence tier boots an app only via docker-compose, an Aspire AppHost, a Dockerfile, an npm dev script, a web service's own toolchain entry point (cargo, go, dotnet, Python, Spring Boot), or an Android app's own Gradle wrapper (run on an emulator); an Apple or Flutter app needs a host it lacks. None applied, so no live runtime a11y/egress/header evidence was collected. You can widen what we reach: add a docker-compose.yml (or an Aspire AppHost) that brings the app up with its dependencies. Watchdog then boots it in an isolated sandbox and gathers real runtime evidence — you change nothing in your pipeline (no CI step, no SDK).
IC1 Incompleteness & stubs — measured, with a gap in what it reached — Watchdog measured this, but not all of it. What it did not reach is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — so the numbers on that dimension cover less than the repository, and the part left out is not evidence that it would have passed. 6 further occurrence(s) are not listed individually; the score already reflects all 46.
P5 DR & Backup — not measured this run — This is a true statement about the repository that carries nothing for its owner to act on, so it is reported here rather than as a defect in their code. No backup/snapshot/replication config, RTO/RPO or restore-procedure documentation was found — and no production persistence was detected either (no data-access packages, no data-store services, no database resources), so there is nothing in this repository whose loss a DR control would recover. If this system's data lives in a platform or ops repo we can't see, that's where the DR evidence belongs.
X1 Async correctness — measured, with a gap in what it reached — Watchdog measured this, but not all of it. What it did not reach is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — so the numbers on that dimension cover less than the repository, and the part left out is not evidence that it would have passed. 22 further occurrence(s) are not listed individually; the score already reflects all 62.
X2 Cancellation propagation — measured, with a gap in what it reached — Watchdog measured this, but not all of it. What it did not reach is a gap on our side — a collector, parser or image we have not built yet — so the numbers on that dimension cover less than the repository, and the part left out is not evidence that it would have passed. 40 further occurrence(s) are not listed individually; the score already reflects all 80.
Repo exclusion declarations (.gitattributes linguist-generated/vendored, .editorconfig generated_code): none declared — every source file was scored.
Limitations & what we did not check
Watchdog assesses the repository exactly as committed, and only the repository. By design it does not reach outside the source tree: the live cloud account, the running CI/CD pipeline, the host's branch-protection and approval rules, the production configuration, or a restore actually exercised against a backup are all out of scope. That boundary is a feature, not a gap — a repo-relative, deterministic scan re-runs identically on any commit and every finding opens at a real file and line, where a live audit can neither be reproduced nor traced. The visible consequence is that controls which leave no in-repo evidence are reported as "not evidenced" and excluded from the score rather than awarded a number a static scan cannot justify.
Per-dimension blind spots
For each dimension that was measured, what a static, repo-only scan structurally cannot see — the honest edge of the measurement, not a failure of it.
D1 Cyclomatic Complexity: Cyclomatic complexity counts branches statically — it cannot tell an essential decision tree from accidental tangle, nor see complexity that lives in data or configuration (large switch-case token tables, DSL lexers/parsers, data-as-code rule tables) rather than control flow: a tokenizer's many single-character cases read as high complexity though each branch is trivial.
D2 Cognitive Complexity: Cognitive-complexity heuristics approximate how hard code is to follow; genuine domain difficulty and well-named intent that eases reading are not captured.
D3 God Classes: "God class" is sized by members and responsibilities visible in the type — a deliberately broad facade over a coherent subsystem can read the same as an accidental grab-bag. For front-end JS the file-length check is cohesion-aware (a single-responsibility module — one class/IIFE — earns a 3× threshold), but cohesion is approximated from top-level declarations, not true dependency structure.
D4 Code Duplication: Duplication is token-similarity — an in-process token-stream comparison over sliding windows, with type-aware normalization — so it finds copy-paste, not semantic duplication expressed differently. Committed machine-written code (scaffolded migrations, designer/codegen output, protobuf/OpenAPI stubs, model snapshots) is EXCLUDED — its repetition is the tool's, not the team's — so the score reflects hand-written duplication only.
D5 Coupling: Coupling is measured between projects/assemblies — runtime coupling through DI, reflection, messaging or shared databases is invisible to a static reference graph.
D6 Cohesion (LCOM4): LCOM4 cohesion is syntactic — it infers connectivity from which methods touch which fields/methods by name, not from real runtime behaviour or intent.
D8 Code Coverage: Coverage is measured by building and running the test suite inside Watchdog's isolated image — the target repo is never modified, and nothing on your systems runs. So coverage exists only when the suite builds and runs within the inline time budget; one that needs external services, can't build, or exceeds the budget yields no coverage (D8 then degrades to not-measured, not a low score). Line coverage also says nothing about assertion quality.
D9 Test Distribution: The test-pyramid shape is inferred from project/folder naming and references, with a single test host bucketed per-file by its path tier and content signals — a suite that names tiers unconventionally and gives no per-file signal can still be mis-bucketed.
D13 Secret Scanning: Secret detection is signature- and entropy-based on the current tree — a secret that does not match a known pattern, or one already rotated, will not be flagged (a clean scan is "nothing matched", not "no secrets exist").
D14 License Compliance: License compatibility is checked against declared package metadata and a policy — mislabelled or missing license metadata, and obligations that depend on how you distribute, are not resolved here.
D15 Churn × Complexity Hotspots: Churn hotspots come from git history — a freshly imported or squashed repository has no churn signal, and recent rewrites can mask a historically risky file.
D17 Explicit Debt: Acknowledged-debt signals (TODO/FIXME, suppressions, dead code) are textual — undocumented debt that nobody marked, and debt that lives in design rather than annotations, is invisible. Committed machine-written code (scaffolded migrations, designer/codegen output, generated stubs) is excluded — it is never the team's dead code to delete.
D18 Solution Shape: Build integrity reflects whether the solution compiled in this environment — a build that needs a private feed, a specific SDK, or a generated file absent from the repo can read as broken when it is merely unreproducible here.
D19 Documentation Quality: Documentation quality is judged by an LLM over a bounded sample of docs — it reads what is written, not whether the docs match the running system, and it is advisory, not a measurement. Its critique rows are drawn from a closed category vocabulary and each row means the same thing in every run, so two scans can be compared row by row; the SET that fires is still a sample, and does not repeat exactly. Measured on one frozen input, six scans at one engine SHA: 2-5 critique rows per scan, 8 distinct rows across the six, 3 of those 8 seen in only one scan. So a D19 row is evidence about the documentation, but a COUNT of D19 rows is not a quantity — never read a change in it as an improvement or a regression.
D21 Naming Consistency: Naming quality is an LLM judgement over a bounded sample — it assesses clarity/consistency of the names it sees, not domain-correctness, and is advisory.
D24 Comment Value: Comment value (WHY vs WHAT) is an LLM judgement over a bounded sample — it is advisory and cannot weigh a comment against the precise code change it was written to explain.
D26 Project Cohesion: Project focus is sized from members/namespaces per project — a project that is broad by deliberate design reads the same as one that has sprawled.
D28 Secrets (history): Secret-history scanning sweeps the git log for known patterns — a secret that predates the available history, or never matched a signature, is not found (clean means "nothing matched in the history we can see").
D29 Static Analysis (SAST): SAST findings are pattern-based (semgrep) — it finds classes of bug it has rules for; logic flaws, auth/authorization gaps and issues needing runtime context are out of reach (and clean means "no rule matched").
D34 Knowledge Freshness: Freshness is decayed commit RECENCY, not comprehension — code read often but rarely committed reads as orphaned, and stable code that genuinely needs no changes is penalised the same as forgotten code; bot/squash commits distort it like the bus factor.
D35 Change Coupling: Change coupling is co-change in COMMITS — files split across separate commits, or coupled only through a shared config/build step, read as uncoupled, and a sweeping commit (rename/format) is excluded so it doesn't couple everything. It shows that files change together, not WHY: a high coupling can be a healthy cohesive pair as readily as a hidden leak.
AX10 Code composition: Role is inferred from namespace/folder convention, not semantics — a domain concept living in a folder named "Services" reads as application, and the split is lines-of-code, not business value. The business-logic-share score is a SOFT, FLOORED signal: it contributes to the Architecture lens but is floored at the Critical gate, so an infrastructure-heavy design (a gateway, an ETL, a driver) is legitimately low without being nuked to zero.
M4 Documentation accuracy: Onboarding quality is an LLM read of the docs/setup present — it cannot run the onboarding or measure how long a real new joiner takes; the verdict is sampled and advisory.
P4 Deployment & Rollback: Approval/branch-protection rules live in repository settings the scan cannot see — only their in-repo evidence (config files, workflows) is checked, so a control enforced purely in the host's settings reads as "not evidenced".
P6 Release Hygiene: Rollback/observability controls are inferred from repo artefacts (pipelines, dashboards-as-code) — controls configured in external tooling, with no in-repo trace, cannot be credited.
The LLM boundary
LLM-set scores this run (4): D19, D21, D24, M4 (model: Local LLM). For these, a model reads a bounded sample and sets the numeric score; each names its own sample and method on its card. They are sampled and advisory by design: they vary at the margins between runs and are never a deterministic measurement. Every other score in this report is tool-computed at confidence 1.0.
What it measures: How tangled the control flow is — methods with many branches are hard to test and change.
Method: Cyclomatic complexity per method (1 + decision points), computed exhaustively across production source; test projects separated by convention. Deterministic.
+ 12 more group(s) — more in Appendix A; the complete list is findings.md.
What to do
Bring the 3 bodies over 30 down to 30 or less in Cyclomatic Complexity — start with MarkdownDocument.Parse (cyclomatic 61), HyperlinkInline.ParseEmailAddress (cyclomatic 32), Common.FindNextInlineElement (cyclomatic 31). — This score is capped by its worst body, so a finding fixed alone moves it by almost nothing — the next one down takes its place. Refactoring these 3 together lifts Cyclomatic Complexity from 7.2 to about 7.9/10, projected with the scoring formula itself and assuming each lands exactly at 30; a cleaner split scores higher.
Enforce Cyclomatic Complexity in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Prevented — provenance only; does not change the score.
Detailed fixes: d1_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
What it measures: How hard the code is for a person to follow, beyond raw branching.
Method: Cognitive complexity per method (Sonar-style nesting-penalized score), computed exhaustively over production code, excluding test projects. Deterministic.
+ 29 more group(s) — more in Appendix A; the complete list is findings.md.
What to do
Bring the 3 bodies over 60 down to 60 or less in Cognitive Complexity — start with MarkdownDocument.Parse (cognitive 143), SetsView.SetsView_SizeChanged (cognitive 75), CodeBlock.Parse (cognitive 69). — This score is capped by its worst body, so a finding fixed alone moves it by almost nothing — the next one down takes its place. Refactoring these 3 together lifts Cognitive Complexity from 5.6 to about 6.5/10, projected with the scoring formula itself and assuming each lands exactly at 60; a cleaner split scores higher.
Enforce Cognitive Complexity in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Prevented — provenance only; does not change the score.
Detailed fixes: d2_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
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D3 · God Classes8.4 / 10Strong✓ Tool-verified
What it measures: Over-large classes that try to do too much ("god classes").
Method: God-class detection by line and method-count thresholds per logical type (partial classes unified), filtered for generated code and registration/contract false positives. Deterministic.
Resolve the 6 TooManyMethods finding(s) in God Classes — start with TextEditorCore.cs, NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs, TextEditor.xaml.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (6 warning-level).
Resolve the 3 ClassTooLong finding(s) in God Classes — start with EmojiInline.cs, MarkdownTextBlock.Methods.cs, MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (3 warning-level).
Resolve the 2 MethodTooLong finding(s) in God Classes — start with MarkdownDocument.cs, MarkdownTextBlock.Methods.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (2 warning-level).
Enforce God Classes in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Prevented — provenance only; does not change the score.
Detailed fixes: d3_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
What it measures: Copy-pasted code that should be shared instead.
Method: Code duplication via token-stream sliding windows with type-aware normalization (locals masked, type names preserved), density-scored per KLoC of production code. Deterministic.
17 duplicated block group(s) detected. One further row reports members as variants of one another; it aggregates block groups already counted above and is not itself counted.
+ 11 more group(s) — more in Appendix A; the complete list is findings.md.
What to do
Resolve the 2 Duplicated block (32 lines × 2) finding(s) in Code Duplication — start with TextEditorCore.Indentation.cs, MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (2 warning-level).
Resolve the 2 Duplicated block (13 lines × 2) finding(s) in Code Duplication — start with REDACTED, PrintArgs.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (2 warning-level).
Resolve the 1 Members sharing a duplicated core (5 members, 50+ identical tokens) finding(s) in Code Duplication — start with BoldItalicTextInline.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
Enforce Code Duplication in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Verified — provenance only; does not change the score.
Detailed fixes: d4_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
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D5 · Coupling10.0 / 10Exemplary✓ Tool-verified
What it measures: Whether volatile projects sit underneath others that depend on them (so their churn ripples upward), and whether project dependencies form cycles. A widely-depended-on but stable shared/kernel project is healthy, not penalised.
Method: Dependency cycles via elementary-DFS over real .csproj references, plus Martin instability (afferent/efferent) per project. Exhaustive over the reference graph, deterministic.
Coverage: Exhaustive · type-level: afferent/efferent coupling + cycles computed over every production type — the population is all types, not a name convention.
What it measures: Whether a class's methods are focused on a single responsibility.
Method: LCOM4 cohesion per production class with at least two methods: connected components of methods sharing state or calls, computed syntactically. Deterministic, not a proxy.
Coverage: Exhaustive · type-level: LCOM4 cohesion computed over every production class — the population is all types, not a name convention.
Resolve the 2 Low cohesion finding(s) in Cohesion (LCOM4) — start with FindAndReplaceControl.xaml.cs, TextEditor.xaml.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (2 warning-level).
Enforce Cohesion (LCOM4) in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Verified — provenance only; does not change the score.
Detailed fixes: d6_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
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D8 · Code Coverage0.0 / 10Critical✓ Tool-verified
What it measures: How much of the code is actually exercised by tests.
Method: Coverage from coverlet runs or committed reports (Cobertura/OpenCover/lcov), computed per-file with structured exclusions for generated, trivial, and glue code. When the suite can't be built/run in-image AND no report is committed, coverage is reported NOT-MEASURED (excluded from the score) with the precondition to make it measurable — never a LoC-ratio proxy folded in as if measured. Deterministic.
No automated tests — no test code was found in this repository.
No automated tests
What to do
Resolve the 1 No automated tests finding(s) in Code Coverage. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 issue-level).
Enforce Code Coverage in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Verified — provenance only; does not change the score.
Detailed fixes: d8_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
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D9 · Test Distribution0.0 / 10Critical✓ Tool-verified
What it measures: Whether the test suite has a healthy mix of unit / integration / end-to-end tests.
Method: Test projects classified (Unit/Integration/BDD/E2E) from compiled metadata; test methods counted exhaustively across projects with placement-agnostic disk fallback. Deterministic.
What it measures: Whether any secrets (keys, tokens, passwords) have leaked into the code.
Method: In-process native secret scanner (entropy plus signature patterns) across all tracked files; no external tool. A clean result is a measured 10, not no-data zero. Deterministic.
What it measures: Whether the licenses of third-party packages are compatible with your policy.
Method: Third-party package licenses resolved from declared package metadata and checked against the configured policy (allow/deny/copyleft). Deterministic; clean = no incompatible license found at metadata depth.
0 of 168 packages use a banned license. ★ DEPTH: this repository's MSBuild projects declare 11 direct `PackageReference`(s), and 155 further package(s) were reached beyond them by closing the graph over nuget.org's own nuspec dependency graph — so a banned licence pulled in only by a dependency's OWN dependencies is inside this verdict. A package whose licence nuget.org could not be asked for is not graded, and version ranges are taken at their lower bound, so this is the closure as that graph states it rather than a restored consumer's exact resolution.
What it measures: Files that change often and are also complex — the riskiest hotspots.
Method: Per production file churn times cyclomatic complexity over a rolling window, computed from git and Roslyn/JS/Razor analysis. Exhaustive, deterministic per commit date.
What it measures: Acknowledged debt left in the code — TODOs, dead code, suppressed warnings.
Method: Roslyn syntactic debt markers (suppressions/TODO/FIXME/HACK/empty-catch/commented-code/Obsolete) plus SymbolFinder dead-code analysis; weighted-debt-per-KLoC density deducted 2.0x per unit. Deterministic, exhaustive.
72 deducted debt markers + unmeasured dead symbols across 28654 LoC in the .NET projects (1.7/KLoC) → score 6.6. Dead code not measured: the solution did not load cleanly, so the reference search was skipped.
+ 1 more group(s) — more in Appendix A; the complete list is findings.md.
What to do
Resolve the 14 EmptyCatchBlock finding(s) in Explicit Debt — start with AnalyticsService.cs (3), App.xaml.cs (2), SessionManager.cs (2). — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (14 issue-level).
Resolve the 14 AnalyzerSeverityNone finding(s) in Explicit Debt — start with .editorconfig (14). — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (14 issue-level).
Resolve the 1 NoWarnInCsproj repeated 21 times in 2 files finding(s) in Explicit Debt — start with Notepads.csproj. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 issue-level).
Enforce Explicit Debt in CI to reach Verified (currently Documented). — Hardens enforcement from Documented toward Prevented — provenance only; does not change the score.
Detailed fixes: d17_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
What it measures: Whether the solution is laid out in a sensible, conventional structure.
Method: Solution structure: project count, decomposition, shell-project detection, build success (confirmed failures cap the score); traced to actual .sln files and binaries. Deterministic.
2 projects, 213 source files, 28654 hand-written lines of code (28654 production / 0 test — the split is derived per file: test is what its project, its own path, or a compile-guarded region marks as test, and a file carrying no test signal counts as production), 1 inter-project edges (build NOT measured — `dotnet build` did not complete in the analyzer, so the build half of this dimension is unmeasured rather than failed: the score above rests on structure alone and is not capped. The diagnostics that stopped it are named under Limitations.)
What it measures: Whether the project's documentation is clear, complete, and useful.
Method: Judged by language model at low temperature (0.0-0.1) on a deterministic doc sample (READMEs plus first 25 architecture docs), with two-pass stability filtering. Advisory, sampled.
The repository's root README is a well-written narrative that explains what Notepads is (a modern lightweight text editor) and why it matters, with strong personal motivation. It opens with an appealing image and a store link, then lists the features it provides: Fluent design with a built-in tab system; blazingly fast and lightweight; launch from command line or PowerShell by typing `notepads` or `notepads %FilePath%`; multi-line handwriting support; built-in Markdown live preview; built-in diff viewer (preview your changes); session snapshot and multi-ins. It also states the project's future direction ('More to read here: [[Privacy Policy](PRIVACY.md)]; Contributing:; Dependencies and References...') and links out to a Privacy Policy document, which is present in the summary but not shown by the scanner. The body ends with an unshown clip marker mid-sentence, so any clipped trailing sections are not flagged as missing.
Resolve the 1 Low XML-doc coverage finding(s) in Documentation Quality — start with Notepads.csproj. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
Resolve the 1 Documentation finding(s) in Documentation Quality — start with README.md. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 recommendation-level).
Detailed fixes: d19_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
What it measures: Whether names — types, methods, variables — are clear and consistent.
Method: Judged by language model at low temperature (0.0-0.1) on a deterministic random symbol sample (fixed size, not exhaustive), with disclosed confidence band. Advisory, sampled.
1 naming inconsistencies across 200 sampled symbols.
Inconsistent spelling of 'Fallback'. The method `GetFallBackEncoding` uses the two-word spelling 'Fall Back', while the rest of the codebase (e.g., `GetOrCreateFileAsync`, `FileSystemUtility`) and standard .NET conventions use the single word 'Fallback'.
✓ On the Gold path — maintain.
Detailed fixes: d21_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
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D24 · Comment ValueExemplary◐ Sampled · advisory
What it measures: Whether comments are worth it — explaining WHY (valuable) rather than WHAT (redundant).
Method: Judged by language model at low temperature (0.0-0.1) on deterministically sampled inline comments with surrounding code; findings verified back to sampled comments by substring match. Advisory, sampled.
1 of 2 projects flagged as possibly oversized/incoherent.
Projects may be oversized for their cohesion
What to do
Resolve the 1 Projects may be oversized for their cohesion finding(s) in Project Cohesion. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 recommendation-level).
Detailed fixes: d26_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
What it measures: Whether any secrets were ever committed — scanned across the full git history, not just now.
Method: Secret scan via TWO gitleaks detect passes in an isolated checkout — the full git history, then a second --no-git pass over the working tree as it stands — merged and de-duplicated by (rule, file, line); each match flagged High. Both invocations are recorded in the audit trail. Exhaustive; when the tool is absent, or when its output cannot be parsed into the expected shape, the dimension is WITHHELD as an explicit measurement gap on our side — unscored and excluded from the lens, never a hedged middling score.
What it measures: Real static-analysis (SAST) findings — likely security bugs in the code, any language.
Method: Polyglot static analysis via semgrep across the repo using the pinned, image-baked p/security-audit + p/owasp-top-ten rulesets (no scan-time registry fetch); severity rules (ERROR/WARNING/INFO) map to a full-band severity-weighted score. Exhaustive, deterministic; degrades on parse failure.
Coverage: semgrep pattern rules over all files — exhaustive for the rule set, blind to classes of bug without a rule (clean = no rule matched).
18 finding(s): 0 critical, 17 high, 1 medium, 0 low. 14 unpinned-GitHub-Actions row(s) are reported here but scored by D36 (supply-chain provenance), which measures that posture as `pinned_actions` — one pinning decision is charged once, not once per lens. semgrep hit a parse error in 1 file(s) — `src/Notepads.Controls/SetsView/SetsView.HeaderLayout.cs` (line 61, line 110, line 115) — so no absence of findings in the named regions is evidence of anything; rows reported elsewhere in those files are real. Fix the syntax error (or exclude the file deliberately) and re-scan to cover them. Separately, one or more rules could not re-parse an embedded snippet in 2 file(s) (e.g. a workflow `run:` block read as shell). Those files WERE scanned and their other rows are unaffected; only those rules' view of those snippets is missing.
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What to do
Resolve the 1 REDACTED finding(s) in Static Analysis (SAST) — start with REDACTED. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 issue-level).
Resolve the 1 REDACTED finding(s) in Static Analysis (SAST) — start with REDACTED. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 issue-level).
No action in Static Analysis (SAST) — all 14 REDACTED finding(s) are reported here at file:line but scored by D36 (supply-chain provenance), so none is charged to this dimension. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (14 issue-level, 0 of them charged here).
Detailed fixes: d29_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
What it measures: Whether anyone still has living knowledge of each file, or it has been orphaned — last understood long ago by someone now gone quiet. The sibling of the bus factor: D16 asks who owns it, D34 asks whether anyone still knows it.
Method: File orphaning as total living-knowledge decay below one focused-commit's worth within a year, computed per-file from the D16 decay model. Exhaustive, deterministic over fixed history.
115 of 115 significant source file(s) are orphaned — their living knowledge has decayed to nothing, so no one currently understands them. The largest is src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs. Counted over 115 of the 209 production source files in this repository: the rest are under the ~2,400-byte size floor this dimension measures over.
Most significant orphaned file · ×3src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:1
Dormant codebase
What to do
Resolve the 112 Orphaned file finding(s) in Knowledge Freshness — start with NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs, FileSystemUtility.cs, NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (112 recommendation-level).
Resolve the 3 Most significant orphaned file finding(s) in Knowledge Freshness — start with TextEditor.xaml.cs, TextEditorCore.cs, NotepadsCore.cs. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (3 recommendation-level).
Resolve the 1 Dormant codebase finding(s) in Knowledge Freshness. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 recommendation-level).
Detailed fixes: d34_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
What it measures: Whether files that change together actually belong together — pairs that repeatedly co-change in git history despite having no explicit code dependency, surfacing the hidden/logical coupling (and boundaries in the wrong place) a static scan can't see.
Method: Pairwise co-occurrence over the per-commit file sets in git history (production source only — tests and generated dropped): Degree-of-Coupling = shared ÷ min individual revisions, reported above noise floors (each file ≥10 revisions, ≥5 shared commits, ≥50% strength); sweeping commits excluded. Deterministic over fixed history.
Coverage: Population: PRODUCTION source files only — test and generated files are dropped before pairing, so a class co-changing with its own test (trivially ~100%) can't drown the real production↔production coupling. Pairs ranked by Degree-of-Coupling. A non-source file is never a coupling PARTICIPANT either: documentation, schemas, config and data files are dropped with the rest, so a code↔docs pair — a command and the reference page that restates it — is not reported however strongly the two co-change; nor is coupling that runs THROUGH a build step or config file.
What it measures: Whether the build pipeline provides supply-chain integrity — generated provenance/attestation, signed artifacts (cosign/sigstore), an SBOM, and pinned build actions. Presence of the configuration, not a runtime guarantee.
Method: Supply-chain provenance/signing read deterministically from CI/build config (.github/workflows, .gitlab-ci.yml, azure-pipelines, Jenkinsfile, .circleci) + the release surface: four signals — generated provenance/attestation (SLSA/in-toto/actions-attest), artifact signing (cosign/sigstore/gitsign), an SBOM (syft/sbom-action/*.spdx.json/*.cdx.json), and SHA-pinned build actions — scored 10·present/denom. NotApplicable without a build pipeline. Detects configuration presence, not runtime enforcement.
Resolve the 2 REDACTED finding(s) in Supply-chain Provenance & Signing — start with REDACTED, REDACTED. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (2 warning-level).
Resolve the 1 REDACTED finding(s) in Supply-chain Provenance & Signing. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 warning-level).
Resolve the 1 REDACTED finding(s) in Supply-chain Provenance & Signing. — One of this dimension's main actionable groups (1 recommendation-level).
Detailed fixes: d36_recommendation.md · top locations in Appendix A, every location in findings.md.
Other · Architecture — How the codebase splits by code ROLE — domain, application, infrastructure, test, generated. The significance map behind the knowledge/coupling weighting, and a DDD signal in its own right: a thin domain core under fat infrastructure is the anemic-domain smell, quantified. How each file's role is decided, because the split is only as good as that: a generated name or a build-output tree makes it Generated, a test project makes it Test, and otherwise the file's NAMESPACE and PATH words are matched against fixed vocabularies in a fixed ORDER — domain, then infrastructure, then application — so a file whose words hit two layers is counted under the earlier one. A production file matching none of them counts as application, so that share reads 'application or unclassified' rather than a measured application layer. Roles come from naming convention, never from what the code does.
Method: Roslyn line-count by code ROLE: every source file classified Domain/Application/Infrastructure/Test/Generated by namespace + path convention (the shared CodeRoleClassifier), then significant lines summed per role. Deterministic; the advisory score is the business-logic (domain+application) share of production code.
Coverage: Population: ALL source files, each bucketed into ONE of five roles (Domain/Application/Infrastructure/Test/Generated) by namespace + path convention — a file whose layer isn't named in the convention falls to Application (the neutral default), and the split is line-count, not semantic depth or business value.
What to do
The domain core is a small share of production code, but most of the rest matched no layer vocabulary at all — so this is not yet an anemic-domain finding. The namespace/path convention could not place that code, which makes the composition above a statement about the naming, not about the design. Name the layers (or check that the repository's conventions differ from the ones this check knows) before reading a thin domain into it.
Other · Architecture — Whether the project-reference graph is acyclic (cycles block independent build/deploy and signal eroding boundaries).
Method: Project reference cycles via elementary-DFS over real .csproj references, using the engine shared with D5/D7; cyclic versus acyclic. Exhaustive, deterministic.
The namespaces Notepads.Controls ↔ Notepads.Controls.Markdown ↔ Notepads.Controls.TextEditor ↔ Notepads.Core ↔ Notepads.Core.SessionDataModels ↔ Notepads.Extensions ↔ Notepads.Models ↔ Notepads.Utilities depend on each other. The lightest dependency in the cycle is Notepads.Controls.Markdown → Notepads.Controls.TextEditor (Notepads.Controls.Markdown.MarkdownExtensionView → Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.TextEditorCore, 1 type pair(s)); cut that one first, e.g. by moving the shared type to a namespace both can use or inverting it behind an interface. — src/Notepads/Controls/Markdown/MarkdownExtensionView.xaml.cs:20
What to do
Break namespace cycles inside a project by moving the shared type to a namespace both sides can use, or by inverting the back edge behind an interface.
Other · Architecture — Whether the codebase has a recognisable, scale-appropriate structure (a named architectural style, or modular enough for its size) rather than being an ad-hoc ball of mud.
Method: Roslyn plus csproj analysis: architecture style detection (DDD, clean, vertical-slice, CQRS) and structure fitness for repo size. Deterministic.
Other · Architecture — Whether interfaces stay focused rather than fat — the Interface-Segregation principle (SOLID 'I').
Method: Roslyn scan: public interface declared-member counts (accessors fold into their property/event); fat-interface threshold (over 15 declared members) flagged per type. Each finding also reports the distinct-OPERATION count — members counted by name, so an overload group counts once — which decides whether it states the caller-side ISP harm or the implementer-side burden of an overload set. TypeScript: exported interfaces that declare behaviour, counted over their REQUIRED operations (method signatures and function-typed properties with no `?`, once per signature) — data-shape interfaces and ambient .d.ts declarations are outside the population; JavaScript declares no interfaces and is not applicable. Deterministic, type-level.
`ITextEditor` declares 61 members: `Loaded`, `Unloaded`, `KeyDown`, `ModeChanged`, `ModificationStateChanged`, `FileModificationStateChanged`, `LineEndingChanged`, `EncodingChanged`, `SelectionChanged`, `FontZoomFactorChanged`, `TextChanging`, `ChangeReverted`, `FileSaved`, `FileReloaded`, `FileRenamed`, `Id`, `FileType`, `LastSavedSnapshot`, `RequestedLineEnding`, `RequestedEncoding`, `FileNamePlaceholder`, `EditingFileName`, `EditingFilePath`, `EditingFile`, `IsModified`, `FileModificationState`, `Mode`, `DisplayLineNumbers`, `DisplayLineHighlighter`, `Init`, `RenameAsync`, `GetText`, `StartCheckingFileStatusPeriodically`, `StopCheckingFileStatus`, `GetTextEditorStateMetaData`, `ResetEditorState`, `ReloadFromEditingFileAsync`, `GetLineEnding`, `GetEncoding`, `CopyTextToWindowsClipboard`, and 21 more. Counted as the author wrote them — a property is ONE member and its get/set accessors are not counted separately, and an event counts once. A wide interface forces every implementer and caller to depend on methods they don't use (the Interface-Segregation 'I' in SOLID). Split it into focused role-interfaces. — src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/ITextEditor.cs:19
`INotepadsCore` declares 39 members: `TextEditorLoaded`, `TextEditorUnloaded`, `TextEditorEditorModificationStateChanged`, `TextEditorFileModificationStateChanged`, `TextEditorSaved`, `TextEditorClosing`, `TextEditorRenamed`, `TextEditorSelectionChanged`, `TextEditorFontZoomFactorChanged`, `TextEditorEncodingChanged`, `TextEditorLineEndingChanged`, `TextEditorModeChanged`, `TextEditorMovedToAnotherAppInstance`, `StorageItemsDropped`, `TextEditorKeyDown`, `CreateTextEditorAsync`, `CreateTextEditor`, `OpenNewTextEditor`, `OpenTextEditor`, `OpenTextEditors`, `SaveContentToFileAndUpdateEditorStateAsync`, `DeleteTextEditor`, `GetNumberOfOpenedTextEditors`, `TryGetSharingContent`, `HaveUnsavedTextEditor`, `HaveNonemptyTextEditor`, `ChangeLineEnding`, `SwitchTo`, `SwitchTo`, `SwitchTo`, `GetSelectedTextEditor`, `GetTextEditor`, `GetTextEditor`, `GetAllTextEditors`, `FocusOnTextEditor`, `FocusOnSelectedTextEditor`, `CloseTextEditor`, `GetTabScrollViewerHorizontalOffset`, `SetTabScrollViewerHorizontalOffset`. Counted as the author wrote them — a property is ONE member and its get/set accessors are not counted separately, and an event counts once. Those 39 declarations carry 36 distinct name(s), so part of the width is overloading rather than separate responsibilities — but 36 operations clears the >15 bar on its own, so the row is about responsibilities, not signatures. A wide interface forces every implementer and caller to depend on methods they don't use (the Interface-Segregation 'I' in SOLID). Split it into focused role-interfaces. — src/Notepads/Core/INotepadsCore.cs:21
What to do
Split fat interfaces into focused role-interfaces so clients depend only on what they use.
Other · Code Health — Unreviewed-generation residue: shipped members still throwing NotImplementedException, and placeholder string literals left in non-test, non-generated code. Scored as a quality signature, never as a claim about authorship.
Method: Roslyn syntax scan: NotImplementedException throws and placeholder string literals in non-test, non-generated shipped code. Deterministic, code-shape signature.
Other · Code Health — Unfinished work detected by code SHAPE, not keywords: members that only throw a "not implemented" exception, methods that take inputs and return a constant, async methods that never await, dead `if (false)` / `#if false` branches, and skeleton types most of whose members are holes. A real, objective slice of technical debt.
Method: Roslyn syntax scan: incompleteness by code shape (constant-returning methods, async-never-await, #if false branches, guards that return what the code already falls through to, tests an earlier guard already decided, comparisons against NaN, skeleton types), not keyword-gated. Deterministic, code-shape heuristic.
`FindAndReplaceControl.xaml` wires an event to `ReplaceBar_OnTextChanged`, whose body is empty — the markup attaches a listener that does nothing. Implement the handler, or remove the attribute that wires it. — src/Notepads/Controls/FindAndReplace/FindAndReplaceControl.xaml.cs:254
The first 2 statements of the `if` and of the `else` are identical, so they run on both paths regardless of the condition. Lift them above the `if` — leaving them duplicated inside makes the branches read as though they handled this differently. — src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.MainMenu.cs:82
11 consecutive lines of code sit inside a `/* … */` block — a block of code switched off rather than removed, which rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers). — src/Notepads.Controls/Helpers/DispatcherQueueHelper.cs:91
A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers). (×37) — src/Notepads.Controls/InAppNotification/InAppNotification.cs:51, src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.Methods.cs:314, src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.Methods.cs:317, …
What to do
Clear the softer debt: remove commented-out code and dead branches, re-enable or delete skipped tests, and replace blanket warning suppressions with targeted ones.
Maturity · Maturity — Whether the repo and its projects have a README, and whether it's substantive and current.
Method: Filesystem scan: README presence, word count, and headings for depth; git history for staleness. Exhaustive across root and project dirs, deterministic.
What to do
Add a build/run (quick start) section to the root README — the first thing a newcomer needs.
Explain in the README how to run the tests. Add a section called Testing to the README in the repository's top folder, saying how to run the test suite.
Add an 'Architecture' / 'How it works' section to the root README — the high-level shape.
Add a README to the 2 of 2 project(s) that lack one — worth up to 2 pts.
Maturity · Maturity — Whether key decisions (ADRs) and the high-level shape (C4/diagrams) are written down.
Method: Filesystem scan: ADR folder/naming conventions or content, plus Mermaid/PlantUML/C4/architecture.md discovery. Exhaustive, deterministic.
No Architecture Decision Records found — no conventional ADR directory, no numbered `NNNN-title` documents in any markup this check reads, and nothing ADR-shaped by content. Design rationale recorded elsewhere (a design-notes tree, a mailing list, pull-request discussion) is not visible to this check and is not re-findable per decision, so a future maintainer cannot ask why one choice was made and get an answer.
No C4/Structurizr/PlantUML/Mermaid/Graphviz/D2 diagram, no drawn diagram named for the architecture, no file named `architecture` or `design` in any markup this check reads, and nothing in the README, docs or contributor guides that announces the shape — no `## Architecture` heading, no "architecture overview"/"high-level design" phrasing, no "the architecture is …" introduction, no guided code tour. A shape laid out in prose that never names itself as the architecture is not visible to this check, and neither is one kept outside the repository, so this row reports the absence of a re-findable shape document — not evidence that nobody wrote the shape down.
What to do
Record your significant design decisions. Write one short document per decision, giving its date, the situation, the decision and its consequences, and keep them together with your other design documents. A docs/adr folder with each file named by number and title is the easiest place to find them.
Add a C4 context/container diagram (Structurizr, PlantUML or Mermaid) or an architecture.md overview.
Maturity · Maturity — Whether the repo is organised deliberately — src/test separation and consistent project naming.
Method: Filesystem scan: src/test folder separation and namespace-prefix consistency (majority RootNamespace agreement). Exhaustive across projects, deterministic.
What to do
Start a test surface where your build system looks for one (tests/, test/, spec/, or your ecosystem's test source set) — the separation follows from putting the first tests in the right place.
Maturity · Maturity — Whether the README actually describes the code that exists (LLM-judged, advisory).
Method: Judged by language model at low temperature: README accuracy versus actual projects, within a disclosed tolerance. Advisory, not a measured number.
For more than a log file, an `ActivitySource`/`EventSource` the user can switch on gives you a structured trace to attach to a bug report. A health-check endpoint does not apply here: nothing orchestrates or load-balances a binary the user launches.
Readiness · Readiness — Whether SAST, secret/dependency scanning and performance benchmarking are wired in (presence, not runtime).
Method: Filesystem scan: SAST configuration, dependency-update automation, secret scanning, and a benchmark harness or benchmark step — in this repository's own ecosystem. Exhaustive, deterministic.
What to do
Add gitleaks/trufflehog in CI to block PRs that introduce committed secrets.
Readiness · Readiness — Whether releases are automated and safely reversible (probes, rolling updates, approval gates) — from manifests/pipeline files, not the live environment.
Method: Filesystem scan: deployment manifests/IaC (K8s YAML, Helm, Terraform) for rolling updates, probes, approval gates, migration hooks. Exhaustive, deterministic.
The release is automated and no gate that pauses it for a human is DECLARED IN THIS REPOSITORY'S PIPELINE FILES. What was read: every file under `.github/workflows/`, `.forgejo/workflows/`, `.gitea/workflows/`, `.azuredevops/` and `.azure-pipelines/`, plus `.gitlab-ci*` and `azure-pipelines*` — with comment text stripped, so documenting a gate is not declaring one. What would have counted: GitLab's `when: manual`, CircleCI's `type: approval`, an Azure `ManualValidation@` task or an `approvals:` block, a Jenkins `input` step, a `uses:` step naming an approval action, an `environment:` paired with `reviewers` / `required_reviewers` / `protection` / `wait-timer` / `deployment_branch_policy`, a draft-release step, a `workflow_dispatch` promotion, or a release-event gate. ★ What this cannot see, because none of it is a file: a GitHub environment whose required reviewers are configured in repo SETTINGS, a branch protection rule, or an organisation deployment policy — all of them real, enforced gates that live outside the repository. If yours is one of those, this row is wrong and nothing in the tree could have told us. Otherwise: whatever the release trigger points at is published to users unreviewed, so a mistagged or unverified commit ships and the only remedy is a follow-up release.
What to do
Nothing pauses a release for a human: publish as a draft release (or gate the release job on a protected tag/manual dispatch) so a bad build can be stopped before users can download it.
Readiness · Performance — Whether asynchronous code stays responsive — it avoids sync-over-async blocking (a .NET .Wait()/.GetAwaiter().GetResult(), a time.sleep or blocking HTTP call inside a Python coroutine, a *Sync call inside an async JavaScript function, block_on inside a Rust async fn, runBlocking inside a Kotlin suspend function, block() inside a Reactor publisher) that stalls a thread or event loop and risks deadlock, and, where the code is a reusable library on .NET, awaits with ConfigureAwait(false) so it never captures and stalls its caller's context.
Method: Production-source scan: sync-over-async blocking counted everywhere — .Wait()/.GetAwaiter().GetResult() in .NET; off .NET, read from the language model, a blocking call inside an async function (Python, TS/JS, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Dart) or inside a Java method returning a Reactor Mono/Flux or a Scala method returning a Future or effect — and, for a .NET library with ≥5 awaits, the share of awaits using ConfigureAwait(false). Deterministic, syntax/text detection.
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X1 · Async correctness3.6 / 10Weak✓ Tool-verified
Other · Code Health — Whether the code avoids sync-over-async (deadlock-prone blocking on tasks) and async void.
Method: Roslyn syntax scan: async methods scanned for .Wait()/.GetAwaiter().GetResult() and async-void outside event handlers. Deterministic, hard fact per invocation.
`async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained. (×37) — src/Notepads/Controls/FindAndReplace/FindAndReplaceControl.xaml.cs:70, src/Notepads/Controls/GoTo/GoToControl.xaml.cs:57, src/Notepads/Controls/Print/PrintArgs.cs:410, …
`Thread.Sleep` parks the thread for the whole delay: no other work runs on it, and under load the pool must grow to make up for it. `await Task.Delay(…)` suspends only this method. (×3) — src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:189, src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:244, src/Notepads/Services/LoggingService.cs:136
Other · Code Health — Whether any branch is dead by construction — a switch arm whose label can never equal a case-normalised subject, or an `else if` whose predicate the arm above has already swallowed.
Method: Roslyn syntax + semantics: switch labels compared against the subject's own case normaliser, and if/else-if chains checked for a literal an earlier arm's containment test already swallows. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
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X13 · Undrained process stream10.0 / 10Exemplary○ Nothing flagged
Other · Code Health — Whether a child process that has BOTH standard streams redirected drains both — reading one to the end while the other is never read deadlocks once the child fills the unread pipe.
Method: Roslyn syntax + semantics: ProcessStartInfo launches with both streams redirected, checked for a drain of each stream across the enclosing type. On a repository with no .NET source it reads JavaScript/TypeScript off the engine’s own token stream (test, vendored and minified paths not) with the same rule: a `spawn` imported from `child_process` whose stdout and stderr are both pipes (no options, no `stdio`, or `stdio` of `'pipe'`), bound to a local that never leaves its scope, where exactly one of the two streams is read, the other never, and the child’s `close`/`exit` (or the read stream’s end) is awaited; a shell redirect in the call’s arguments or a `kill` of the child suppresses it. The same rule reads Python’s `subprocess.Popen`, Dart’s `Process.start`, Ruby’s `Open3.popen3`, and Scala’s JDK process starts (`new ProcessBuilder(…).start()` with no `redirectErrorStream`/`redirectError`/`redirectOutput`/`inheritIO`, `Runtime.getRuntime.exec`) where one of `getInputStream`/`getErrorStream` is read and the other never while `waitFor()` is called or the read stream is read to its end. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Security — Whether a hand-rolled public/private IP check can be walked past — a method that unwraps IPv4-mapped IPv6 but returns the opposite verdict for the same host written as IPv4-compatible, 6to4 or NAT64.
Method: Roslyn syntax + semantics: methods that unwrap IPv4-mapped IPv6 and hand-roll IPv4 range carve-outs, checked for whether the IPv6 branch also accounts for the IPv4-compatible, 6to4 and NAT64 embeddings. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
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X15 · Unvalidated length from an untrusted reader10.0 / 10Exemplary○ Nothing flagged
Other · Security — Whether a length read out of the stream being parsed is bounded before it is allocated or read — an unchecked count taken from the input lets the input choose the allocation.
Method: Roslyn syntax + semantics: integer lengths read from a BinaryReader and spent on a bulk read or an array allocation, checked for any comparison or bounding call on the value anywhere in the method. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Code Health — Whether a loop that shortens a string until it fits a length budget has a floor — one with none grinds the value down to the empty string, or past it into a negative-length `Substring`.
Method: Roslyn syntax + semantics: while/do loops whose body's only effect on a string is to drop its last character, checked for whether anything — a direct comparison on the length, a body guard, a break — bounds that length below. On a repository with no .NET source it reads JavaScript/TypeScript off the engine’s own token stream (test, vendored and minified paths not) with the same rule: a `while`/`do` loop whose body’s one assignment to a value is `x = x.slice(0, -1)` or `x = x.slice|substring|substr(0, x.length - 1)`, driven by a condition that reads `x.length` only as a term of a larger expression — never compared directly, never tested for truthiness, and with no other read of `x` — and whose body has no `break`, `return`, `throw` or `if` naming `x`. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
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X17 · Uncapped recursion over a caller-supplied document10.0 / 10Exemplary○ Nothing flagged
Other · Security — Whether a walk that recurses through a JSON/XML tree handed in by its caller bounds how deep it will go — an uncapped walk lets the document's nesting choose the stack depth, and the resulting StackOverflowException cannot be caught.
Method: Roslyn syntax + semantics: methods that take a JSON/XML document node and call themselves with a child of it, reachable from an externally-callable member of the same type that accepts a document, checked for any depth parameter, descent counter or threaded arithmetic anywhere in the walk. On a repository with no .NET source it reads TypeScript off the engine’s own token stream (test, vendored, generated and minified paths and `.d.ts` not) with the same rule: a function or method with a parameter typed as a document value — `unknown`, `any`, `object`, `Record<string, unknown|any>`, a JSON alias (`JsonValue`, `JSONObject`, …) or a DOM node global the file does not rebind — that calls itself (bare, or through `this` for a method, or hands itself to a call over the value as in `value.map(walk)`) with something it took out of that value and never through an ancestor accessor such as `closest()` or `parentElement`, that is exported or reached from an exported function (a public method of the same exported class) taking such a value, and that names no depth, level, nesting, recursion, remaining or budget anywhere and threads no `+`/`-` arithmetic through a self-call. Plain JavaScript is not read: with no annotation nothing tells a parsed document from a tree the code built itself. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Code Health — Whether a type's disposal matches what it OWNS — releasing what it created, leaving alone what it was handed, and not declaring a finalizer for state that has nothing unmanaged to finalize.
Method: Roslyn syntax + semantics: every assignment to a disposable field is read to decide whether the type CREATED the value or was handed it, and the type's disposal is checked against that answer — an injected interface it disposes, a value it constructed and never releases, a finalizer on a type holding nothing unmanaged, and a disposable local whose every reference is a plain member read. A value handed to a container that disposes its contents (a parent control's `Controls` collection, a component `IContainer`) is released by that container and is not reported; generated code is out of population. On a repository with no .NET source the same ownership questions are read in JavaScript/TypeScript off the engine’s own token stream (test, vendored, generated and minified paths not): a class declaring `dispose()`, `[Symbol.dispose]()` or `[Symbol.asyncDispose]()` that disposes a field it was handed through a constructor parameter typed as a repository interface or resolved by a dependency-injection container; that assigns a field only ever from `new X(…)` of a disposable class and neither releases it anywhere in the class nor names it in its disposal member or a method that member calls, nor hands it to anything else; and a `const`/`let` local built from literals only whose every reference opens a statement operating on a non-release member of it. A class is disposable when every repository declaration of its name declares or inherits a disposal member, or when it is a documented library disposable (`vscode` EventEmitter, CancellationTokenSource and Disposable; three.js geometries, materials, textures, render targets, renderers, controls and composers). The finalizer arm has no JavaScript counterpart: a class cannot declare one. Dart is read for the owned-and-never-released arm: a Flutter `State` (or a class declaring `dispose()`/`close()`) whose library-private field is written only with direct creations of a framework controller, `FocusNode`, `StreamController` or periodic `Timer` (or a `.listen(…)` into a field declared `StreamSubscription`), which nothing in the class or its library releases (`dispose`/`close`/`cancel`) and which is never handed on except as a named argument. Ruby is read for the owned-and-never-released arm and the abandoned-local arm: a class declaring an instance `close`, `dispose`, `shutdown`, `stop`, `disconnect` or `terminate` whose instance variable is written only with a blockless core descriptor creation (`File.open`/`new`, `Tempfile`, `Dir.open`, `IO.popen`, the `socket` and `openssl` socket classes) that no method of the class closes and that is never handed on (passed, returned, stored, exposed by `attr_reader`, delegated) — a class whose superclass or mixin lies outside the repository is not judged — and a blockless creation read through and dropped (`File.open(path).read`) or held in a local that is never closed, returned, passed or stored (a `&:read` block-pass, an `autoclose: false` borrow and a `fileno` hand-over are not abandonment). PHP is read for the same two arms: a class (not a trait, and not one using a trait) declaring an instance `close`, `dispose`, `shutdown`, `stop`, `disconnect` or `terminate` whose `private` property (or a `final` class's `protected` one) is written only with a direct core `fopen`, `tmpfile`, `popen`, `proc_open`, `fsockopen`, `stream_socket_client`/`server` or `opendir` that nothing in the class closes (`fclose`, `pclose`, `closedir`, `unset`, a reset to `null`) and that is never handed on, and a handle held in a function's local, or read through as the argument of a reader, that is never closed, returned, passed, captured or stored; a `php://` stream, `curl_init`, `SplFileObject`, `PDO` and a function the repository declares under the core name are not read. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Code Health — Whether a method that temporarily changes state belonging to the whole process — the working directory, an environment variable — puts it back on EVERY path: a restore reached only when nothing throws leaks the change to the rest of the process.
Method: Roslyn syntax + semantics: method bodies that write the process working directory or an environment variable and write it back in the same body, checked for whether that restore sits in a `finally`/`catch` or only on the straight-line path. On a repository with no .NET source the same rule reads production JavaScript/TypeScript off the engine’s own token stream (test, vendored and minified paths not): `process.chdir`, `process.env.NAME =`/`["NAME"] =` and `delete process.env.NAME`, and Deno’s `Deno.chdir`/`Deno.env.set`/`Deno.env.delete`, paired per function body (a nested function or arrow is its own body, and module top-level code is none), where the last write puts back a local the body captured from the same global or deletes a variable the first write set, with at least one statement between them; a write in a `catch`/`finally` of that body silences it. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Code Health — Whether async methods accept a CancellationToken so work can be cancelled (adoption curve).
Method: Roslyn scan: every async method (excluding framework-fixed overrides/Blazor handlers) checked for CancellationToken parameter presence. Deterministic, adoption percentage. On a repository with no .NET source it reads JavaScript/TypeScript off the engine’s own token stream (test, vendored and minified paths not) with the same question: every named async function that itself makes a request an AbortSignal can cancel (global `fetch`, axios and its file-local instances, ky, ofetch) counts, and it is compliant when its parameters or body name a signal or it hands one of its own parameters to the request as options; signatures a framework fixes (JSX event handlers, route and lifecycle exports, request-first handlers, `override`, `'use server'` modules, TanStack `mutationFn`) are exempt unless they take a signal. Deterministic, adoption percentage.
Only 1/80 async methods accept a CancellationToken, so in-flight work can't be stopped early when the caller gives up — whatever ends it in your host (shutdown signal, timeout, abandoned request, user cancel). Thread a token through the call chain and honour it at each await and loop; where a method genuinely cannot be interrupted, omitting it is a deliberate choice — judge against your hosting model.
No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started. (×39) — src/Notepads/Controls/FindAndReplace/FindAndReplaceControl.xaml.cs:70, src/Notepads/Controls/GoTo/GoToControl.xaml.cs:57, src/Notepads/Controls/Print/PrintArgs.cs:410, …
What to do
Thread a CancellationToken through async methods so work stops promptly on cancellation.
Other · Code Health — Whether an argument guard throws the exception its own condition describes — a guard that rejects a value for being EMPTY and reports it as `ArgumentNullException` tells the caller a parameter was null when it provably was not.
Method: Roslyn syntax: `throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(p))` statements controlled by an `if`, whose condition is read for a test that is true of a NON-null `p` — an emptiness test that dereferences it (`p.Count == 0`, `!p.Any()`) or a BCL predicate documented true of the empty value (`string.IsNullOrEmpty(p)`). Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Code Health — Whether a `when` guard is free of side effects — a guard that increments a counter or assigns while deciding whether its arm matches applies that change during PATTERN MATCHING, on an arm that may not be selected, and skips it entirely when a short-circuit to its left answers first.
Method: Roslyn syntax: `when` guards on case labels and switch-expression arms, read for a mutation (`++`/`--`/assignment) sitting in a position the guard's own `&&`/`||`/`??`/`?:`/`?.` can skip. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Code Health — Whether a method that TAKES a lock or semaphore and gives it back from a flag-guarded `finally` returns the value that flag implies — reporting success while the guard hands the primitive back admits a second caller the exclusion was there to keep out, and reporting failure while the guard keeps it leaves nothing to ever give it back.
Method: Roslyn syntax: `try` statements whose `finally` releases a synchronisation primitive under a bare local-bool guard, where the method also TOOK that same primitive before the `try`, checked for a `return` of a bool literal whose value disagrees with the flag state the method's own straight-line assignments put it in. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Code Health — Whether the work a diagnostic log line costs is paid only when that line is wanted — C# evaluates a call's arguments BEFORE the call, so a trace/debug message joined or projected out of a collection is built in full on every pass, and then discarded by a sink the shipped configuration leaves switched off.
Method: Roslyn syntax: log calls at a diagnostic level (a `Log`-prefixed method naming Trace/Debug/Verbose, or a bare `Debug`/`Trace`/`Verbose` on a receiver named for a logger), whose argument list is read for a call whose cost scales with a sequence — a LINQ operator, a materialisation, `string.Join`, a serializer — with no enclosing level check or conditional-compilation region. On a repository with no .NET source it reads JavaScript/TypeScript off the engine’s own token stream (test, vendored and minified paths not) with the same rule: a `debug`/`trace`/`verbose` call on a receiver named for a logger, or a `log`-prefixed method naming the level, whose argument calls an array operator (`map`/`filter`/`reduce`/`sort`/…), `Array.from`, `Object.keys/values/entries`, `JSON.stringify`/`util.inspect` over anything but a literal, or an array `join` — outside any arrow or function passed as an argument, which the logger calls only when the level is on — with no enclosing `if`, `&&` or `?:` whose condition names a level, a level string, or the `NODE_ENV`/`__DEV__`/`DEV` build switch. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
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X24 · Document value interpolated into markup unescaped10.0 / 10Exemplary○ Nothing flagged
Other · Security — Whether text read out of the document being converted is escaped before it is written into generated markup — a value the document's author chose, interpolated into an attribute the surrounding literal delimits, can close that attribute and open another.
Method: Roslyn semantic model over the whole compilation: a string-typed `Value`/`InnerText`/`InnerXml`/`Text` member declared inside `DocumentFormat.OpenXml` or `System.Xml` is a taint SOURCE, propagated through assignments, returns, arguments, tuple elements and string composition to its transitive closure, then read at interpolated-string holes that sit in a markup position the surrounding literal itself delimits. Escaper/encoder calls and enclosing validator conditions cut the flow. Flow- and container-insensitive by construction. A second arm needs no provenance at all and reports a type that CONTRADICTS ITSELF — the same expression escaped at one delimited markup hole and interpolated raw at another hole in the same markup position of the same type, which the type's own escaping proves is a defect without knowing where the value came from. On a repository with no .NET source it reads JavaScript/TypeScript off the token stream with the same rule: a DOM read of raw document text (`getAttribute`, `textContent`, `innerText`, `nodeValue`) is the source, propagated through local bindings and string composition, and judged at template-literal and concatenation holes in the same two delimited markup positions; escapers and validating conditions cut it, and documentation-site, test, vendored and minified scripts are not read. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Code Health — Whether a value the caller is invited to supply is the value the type actually uses — a constructor parameter stored in a private field that nothing ever reads while the default it was given is spelled out a second time at the site that should have read it, a keyed lookup that falls back to a different setting than the one its key names while the same type falls back to the matching one for that same key, or a culture-sensitive parse given no format provider by a type that feeds its own settable culture to the same kind of parse elsewhere, or a number an entry point writes to standard output under the host's culture while the same entry point formats with the invariant culture elsewhere. Either way, every caller who supplies a value silently gets something else.
Method: Roslyn syntax: private instance fields of a non-partial type assigned in a constructor from one of its own parameters with a `??` fallback, checked for whether anything in the type body reads the field and whether that same fallback expression is spelled out again outside the constructor; and `??` fallbacks onto a member access from a lookup call carrying exactly one string literal, grouped by that key across the type and checked for a fallback member whose folded name disagrees with the key while a sibling site for the same key agrees with it. On a repository with no .NET source the first two arms read JavaScript/TypeScript off the engine’s own token stream (tests included, bundles and vendored paths not): a `#x`, `private` or `private` parameter-property instance field filled in the constructor from a parameter (or one member of one) through `??`/`||` or a parameter default, never read anywhere in the file by name, whose constructed default is spelled again in the class body; and `lookup("key") ?? s.member` grouped by key per class, or per module outside every class. The culture arm has no JavaScript counterpart: its parses take no locale. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Code Health — Whether a value handed from a callback to the body that waits on it crosses on something built to be crossed — a `Queue<T>`/`List<T>`/`Dictionary<K,V>` written inside an event handler and read back outside it is mutated by two flows at once, and the semaphore or completion source beside it orders how MANY items exist while leaving the collection's own head, tail and backing array unprotected.
Method: Roslyn syntax: method, accessor, local-function and lambda bodies that declare BOTH a non-thread-safe generic collection (`Queue`/`Stack`/`List`/`Dictionary`/`HashSet`/`Sorted*`/`LinkedList`) and a synchronisation primitive (`SemaphoreSlim`/`TaskCompletionSource`/`ManualResetEvent(Slim)`/`AutoResetEvent`/`CountdownEvent`) as locals, then read for a `+=`-registered lambda that raises that primitive while the body outside every lambda waits on it — and, in that scope, a mutating call on the collection inside the lambda paired with a mention of it outside. Any `lock` in the scope abstains it. On a repository with no .NET source the same handoff is read in Java off the engine’s own token stream (test source sets, vendored and demonstration paths not): an `ArrayList`/`LinkedList`/`ArrayDeque`/`PriorityQueue`/`Hash*`/`LinkedHash*`/`Tree*` local and a `CountDownLatch`/`Semaphore`/`CompletableFuture` local, a lambda or anonymous class that raises the primitive and mutates the collection, and a wait outside it; any `synchronized` or `lock()` abstains the body. Because each of those primitives orders what the callback wrote before raising it, only a touch that provably overlaps the callback is convicted: one after the registration and before the next wait, or one in a loop registered-before, waiting on every pass and not declaring the collection. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
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X27 · Collection changed while being enumerated10.0 / 10Exemplary○ Nothing flagged
Other · Code Health — Whether a `foreach` leaves the collection it is walking alone — a body that adds to or removes from the very collection the loop is enumerating invalidates the enumerator it is holding, so the next `MoveNext` throws `InvalidOperationException` and the remaining items are never seen.
Method: Roslyn syntax + semantics: `foreach` statements whose body calls a structural mutator (`Add`/`Remove`/`Clear`/`Insert`/…) on the very expression the loop is enumerating. Two arms. ARM A — the source is a concrete fragile BCL collection, or a live `Keys`/`Values` view over one, and the mutator resolves to that same collection's own member; concurrent and immutable collections and arrays are outside the population by construction, since their enumerators survive a structural change. ARM B — the source is an argument-less accessor CALL on a receiver whose body is in source: the accessor must return a stored field VERBATIM and a sibling member must structurally change that same field, both read off the implementations rather than from the members' names. A mutation the loop provably exits immediately after (`break`/`return`/`throw`/`goto`), or one written inside a nested loop or a lambda, is counted and never reported. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
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X28 · Index access outside its own emptiness guard10.0 / 10Exemplary○ Nothing flagged
Other · Code Health — Whether a condition that tests a value for emptiness indexes that same value only where the test holds — an `||` written one parenthesis too far to the left leaves an index access outside the guard beside it, so the empty case the guard exists to anticipate reaches the index and throws.
Method: Roslyn syntax only, no semantic model: the OUTERMOST `&&`/`||` of every boolean condition, read for a symbol the condition tests for emptiness (`string.IsNullOrEmpty`/`IsNullOrWhiteSpace`, a `Length`/`Count` comparison against a literal, `Any()`, a `Length`/`Count` pattern, or a comparison against `""`) and ALSO indexes. Each `symbol[...]` access is placed by a boolean-reachability walk from the access up to the outermost connective: an access is COVERED when some enclosing step has it in the right operand and the left operand, under the truth value that step forces, proves the symbol non-empty — a recursion over `&&`/`||` whose true- and false-directions are asymmetric. A finding needs BOTH an uncovered access and a covered one on the same symbol in the same condition, which is the agreeing twin that separates a misplaced parenthesis from an unrelated length test. Bare index accesses with no emptiness test in the condition are neither counted nor reported; a non-identifier receiver and a lambda nested inside the condition are outside the population. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
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X29 · Per-element action decided by a fixed element10.0 / 10Exemplary○ Nothing flagged
Other · Code Health — Whether a decision taken once per element is taken ABOUT that element — a test inside a counted loop that reads a fixed subscript of the very collection its guarded statement indexes by the loop variable applies element zero's answer to all of them, so the elements that differ from it are all handled wrongly, and in the same direction.
Method: Roslyn syntax only, no semantic model: every `for` statement declaring exactly ONE loop variable, and every `if` inside its body that is not under a nested loop or a lambda. A site enters the population when the `if`’s condition never mentions the loop variable while the statement it guards indexes some collection by that variable ALONE (`c[i]`; `c[i + 1]` and `c[i, j]` are outside it). A finding additionally needs the AGREEING TWIN at the same-collection grain: the condition must read THAT SAME collection at a subscript that does not move — written into the condition, or reached through a local declared BEFORE the loop, so an alias bound inside the body is not followed. Both collection expressions must be simple identifiers. On a repository with no .NET source the same rule reads JavaScript/TypeScript off the engine’s own token stream (tests included, bundles and vendored paths not): a `for (let|var|const x = …; …; …)` with one declarator and a braced body, an alias followed only when it is declared before the loop in a block that encloses it and never assigned inside the loop. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
Other · Code Health — Whether exceptions are handled rather than silently swallowed or rethrown with lost stack traces.
Method: Roslyn syntax scan: every catch clause counted; empty catches and bare rethrows flagged. Population is all catch clauses, not estimated. Deterministic, hard fact.
An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it. (×14) — src/Notepads/Services/AnalyticsService.cs:22, src/Notepads/Services/AnalyticsService.cs:39, src/Notepads/Services/AnalyticsService.cs:51, …
`catch (Exception)` does nothing with the exception it caught — the body neither logs it, rethrows it, nor even names it, so the failure is discarded as completely as by an empty catch. Log it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate; if one specific failure genuinely cannot matter, catch exactly that exception type and say why in a comment on the catch. (×3) — src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs:587, src/Notepads/Services/MRUService.cs:50, src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs:627
What to do
Swallowed exception (empty catch)
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X30 · Support guard that admits what it rejects10.0 / 10Exemplary○ Nothing flagged
Other · Code Health — Whether a guard written as a NEGATED `||` says what its author meant — `!(a || b || x != k)` is `!a && !b && x == k` by De Morgan, so a bail-out that mixes capabilities the code needs with a fault it refuses turns inside out: it fires only where the capabilities are ABSENT, and lets every value the fault term names walk straight into the body that cannot handle it.
Method: Roslyn syntax only, no semantic model: every logical-not whose operand is a parenthesised `||` chain of two or more disjuncts, flattened (a left-nested `a || b || c` read once would see `(a || b)` as one disjunct). A site enters the population on that shape alone. A finding additionally needs the disjuncts to DISAGREE in polarity: at least one bare boolean read — an identifier or member access, never an invocation, which is a predicate rather than a capability flag — and at least one `x != <constant>`, the only form that negates into an exact-value pin (`== null` negates into a looser requirement and is outside the fault set). Consistently-polarised disjunctions, all-fault or all-capability, are counted and never reported; a negated `&&` is outside the population entirely. No same-receiver gate: it was measured to cost a real defect and remove no false positive. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
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X32 · Type resolved by simple name across every loaded assembly10.0 / 10Exemplary○ Nothing flagged
Other · Code Health — Whether a plugin lookup names the type it means — searching every assembly loaded into the process for a candidate whose SIMPLE name equals a string supplied at runtime, and taking the first one found, is decided by assembly LOAD ORDER rather than by this source, so the same name can resolve to a different type on the next run.
Method: Roslyn syntax only, no semantic model: every invocation of `First`/`FirstOrDefault`/`Single`/`SingleOrDefault` whose OWN expression subtree contains both a `GetAssemblies()` call and a `GetTypes()`/`GetExportedTypes()` call — a single-element pick out of every type loaded into the process. A nested selector in the same chain sees no `GetAssemblies()` in its own subtree and is outside the population, so one lookup counts once however many links its chain has. A finding additionally needs both remaining halves: the selector must be `First`/`FirstOrDefault` (`Single`/`SingleOrDefault` reports the ambiguity rather than resolving it, and is counted and never reported), and the chain must carry an `==` comparison of `<lambda parameter>.Name` against something that is not a literal. The receiver must be a plain identifier bound by one of the chain’s own lambdas, which places `assembly.GetName().Name == "X"` outside the rule by construction. One exemption: a `.Name` test joined by `&&` to a `FullName`/`AssemblyQualifiedName` test on the same identifier is spared; joined by `||` it is not. Deterministic, provable per finding. Advisory.
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Reference — by lens
The score is the rank-weighted fold of these lenses (worst-heaviest), each including its meta-dimensions; a lens with a Critical contributor is capped at Fair (its band reads "gated by …") and is never the strongest area however high its average.
Unscored — 3 check(s) recorded observations but carry no score
These checks ran and found something, but they do not carry a score — either by design (an advisory check reports evidence rather than grading it) or because they could not be scored here. They are excluded from the score for that reason, not because there was nothing to see.
SC1 Supply-chain hygiene — 1 observation(s) recorded · Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
X10 Duplicated predicate — 4 observation(s) recorded · Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score.
X7 Silent fallback defaults — 6 observation(s) recorded · Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score.
Not evidenced — 1 control(s) we could not find positive evidence for
These checks grade a working control, and the repository shows no evidence of one. That is deliberately not scored as a zero: a repository cannot show an ops runbook, a database TTL or an infrastructure-side audit log, so absence of evidence here is not evidence the control is missing. It is also not a statement that the check is irrelevant to this codebase — the thing it grades applies; we just could not see it. Excluded from the score either way.
P5 DR & Backup — not evidenced — repo shows no backup/RTO/RPO controls; absence of evidence is not evidence of a working control
Not included — 54 check(s) not relevant to this codebase
These checks had nothing to measure here (no tests, no git history, the codebase is small, or the architecture style doesn't apply), so they're omitted above rather than scored low.
AC1 Text alternatives — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
AC2 Forms & labels — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
AC3 Page structure — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
AC4 Keyboard semantics — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
AC5 ARIA correctness — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
AC6 Visual & motion safety — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
AC7 A11y enforcement — No web markup found — accessibility is not applicable to this repository.
AX1 Captive dependencies — no DI registrations detected
AX2 Stateful singletons — no singleton implementations detected
AX4 Dependency direction — not applicable to a CQRS architecture (the inward-dependency rule is for layered/clean styles)
AX7 Slice cohesion — not applicable — not a vertical-slice architecture
AX8 Test isolation — no test/production split to check
AX9 CQS / query purity — no CQRS query handlers detected — query purity is not applicable to this codebase
AXB1 Runtime evidence locked — no reproducible boot — Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
C1 Data Protection — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
C2 Access Controls — No access-control surface detected in the analyzed source — no web/app surface to authorize (no HTTP API or web-UI project) and no authorization code at all (no [Authorize]/policies, no imperative guard methods). Access control is therefore N/A here — this is a library/CLI, which is authorized by its CALLER, not by itself. If this codebase grows request handlers, the dimension reactivates and a default-deny posture is expected then.
C3 Audit Trail — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
C4 Data Retention — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
C5 Data-Subject Rights — No personal data detected in the analyzed source — no PII-typed entity/column names (Email, FirstName, DateOfBirth, …), no ASP.NET Identity / user-account model, and no stored user credentials. GDPR data-protection controls are therefore N/A here. If this is intentional, record the no-PII posture in an ADR; if the app does process personal data, name those fields conventionally so this dimension activates.
D10 Test Quality — No tests were found in the analyzed repository to assess for quality.
D11 Test Reliability — No test suite was found to re-run, so reliability couldn't be assessed. Two searches produced that zero and both came back empty: the classifier that reads the loaded workspace recognised no suite it could run, and a walk of the source on disk — which covers the JS/TS `*.test.*` and `*.spec.*` conventions and probes for a Pester suite — found no test source in any other ecosystem either. Neither search reaches a suite that is missing from the loaded workspace and carries no name either walk recognises, so this is 'no suite found by those two searches', not a verdict that the repository has none.
D12 Dependency Hygiene — Dependency hygiene not measured
D16 Bus Factor — dormant codebase — no living knowledge left to concentrate
D20 ADR Quality — N/A — ADRs are expected on deployable products with a user-facing host, not consumed libraries; no ADR log is required here.
D22 Internal API Consistency — No intentionally-exposed public API to evaluate for consistency.
D23 Boundary Type-Coupling — Cross-context type coupling could not be assessed — this codebase's bounded contexts are neither declared nor inferable.
D25 ADR Conformance — no ADRs to check
D27 Navigability — symbol resolution incomplete — navigability not assessed
D30 Dependency Vulnerabilities — nuget: the solution did not restore on the analyzer's .NET SDK (an SDK/target-framework/restore mismatch, common for an older codebase), so there was no restored dependency graph to scan
D31 IaC & Container Security — No Infrastructure-as-Code or container manifests found (Dockerfile, Docker Compose, Terraform, Kubernetes/Helm, CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep, Ansible); nothing to scan.
D32 Data Compliance (PII/GDPR) — 1 file(s) were not parsed by semgrep — the PII/GDPR ruleset never ran over them
D37 Vulnerability-disclosure Policy — No vulnerability-disclosure policy file found (SECURITY.md/.markdown/.rst/.txt at root or under .github/.forgejo/.gitea/docs, .well-known/security.txt). A coordinated-disclosure policy may live off-repo, so this is not evidenced rather than failed.
D39 IL Efficiency — IL not measured — the analyzer's build of the target did not succeed
D40 Network Egress Confinement — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; network egress policy is a cluster-native control that may live at the platform/firewall layer, so there is nothing to assess here.
D41 Kernel & Syscall Confinement — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; seccomp/AppArmor/SELinux confinement is a workload-level control, so there is nothing to assess here.
D42 Runtime Threat Enforcement — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; runtime threat-detection and admission-control policy are cluster-level controls, so there is nothing to assess here.
D43 Malicious Dependencies — Not scored — no dependency manifest in a supported ecosystem was read for this repository. A gap in the analyzer's language coverage, NOT a finding that the repository is free of vulnerable dependencies (a Python pyproject.toml/requirements.txt (pip/uv/Poetry), a Swift Package.swift/Package.resolved, a Cargo manifest, a Go module (go.mod/go.sum), a Gradle version catalogue, a Maven POM, an sbt build (build.sbt), composer.json, package.json, a Dart pubspec.yaml, an Elixir mix.exs/mix.lock (Hex), a rebar.config / erlang.mk DEPS (Hex), a Ruby Gemfile/Gemfile.lock or .gemspec (Bundler/RubyGems) — not scanned yet).
D44 Platform End-of-Life — Platform end-of-life not assessed — this repository declares no platform this pass reads
D7 Architectural Integrity — no checkable ADRs and no dependency cycles — architectural integrity not assessed
DM1 Domain Modelling — not scored — this repository shows none of the 3 signals this lens looks for
ED1 Event-Driven — not scored — this repository shows only 1 of the 3 signals this lens looks for (5 CQRS handler(s))
ED5 Idempotency — 5 mutating command handler(s)/consumer(s) detected and 4 handler method(s) walked, but no persistent write was recognised in any of them — idempotency not assessed
ES1 Event Sourcing — not scored — this repository shows none of the 3 signals this lens looks for
P12 CI test-gate honesty — Reported, not scored — and nothing was matched here. The coverage check applies to any stack, and the automatic-re-run check to any GitHub-Actions workflow, but the checks for excluded tests, skipped tests and sleep-based synchronisation currently recognise only some ecosystems' test-runner idioms, so on a repository built with another stack the zeros below mean 'not checked', not 'clean'.
P7 Outbound HTTP resilience — not applicable — this isn't a service/API/worker
P8 Schema migrations — no EF Core usage detected
P9 Domain vs controller coverage — no coverage report found on disk — produce a coverage report in a standard format (Cobertura — `dotnet test --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage"` with a `coverlet.collector` PackageReference) and commit it — a hosted scan measures a clone of the repository, so a report that exists only in a working tree, a CI runner's or your own, never reaches it; the artefact is commonly gitignored, so `git add -f` that one file (or un-ignore its path) and commit it alongside the code it measures, or wire coverage collection into CI, to enable this cross-layer check
PF1 Benchmark discipline — Performance is assessed only for perf-relevant repos — a packaged library, one that ships benchmarks, or one already using allocation-aware APIs. This repo isn't one, so the Performance lens is not applicable and is excluded from the score.
PF2 Allocation hygiene — Performance is assessed only for perf-relevant repos — a packaged library, one that ships benchmarks, or one already using allocation-aware APIs. This repo isn't one, so the Performance lens is not applicable and is excluded from the score.
S1 Web-Security Posture — No web surface detected in the analyzed source — no HTTP API or web-UI project (no controllers/minimal-API endpoints, no Razor/Blazor views) and no web middleware (HTTPS redirection, HSTS, security headers, cookies). Transport security, security headers, secure cookies, CSRF/input-validation and middleware-order controls are therefore N/A here — this is a library/CLI/worker, not a web app. Crypto hygiene was still checked and found nothing to flag. If this codebase becomes web-facing, the dimension reactivates automatically.
X4 Structured logging — This check asks whether log calls keep a message's values apart from its text, which needs a logger that can carry them as fields. This repository's C# was read, and every log call in it goes through a logger that takes one finished message — its own wrapper, log4net, Console or Debug — so an interpolated message there loses nothing the API could have kept. Calls through Microsoft.Extensions.Logging, Serilog, NLog or ZLogger, or any logger with a message-template overload, would be judged.
X5 Nullable reference types — no NRT-eligible projects
X6 Hand-rolled structured-format parsing — Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
X9 Subsumed condition operand — Advisory — this card reports evidence and never carries a score, so there is nothing missing here.
Appendix A — Findings (grouped)
The findings behind the scores, grouped by severity, then by dimension and kind. The high-severity issues are enumerated in full below; items per group are capped at 25 with any overflow stated explicitly per group, never silently truncated. The complete machine-readable list of every finding (all severities) is the companion findings.md in this report's bundle.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/LinkAnchorInline.cs:95— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs:332— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/App.xaml.cs:167— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/App.xaml.cs:236— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:394— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs:634— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs:154— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs:394— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/Services/AnalyticsService.cs:22— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/Services/AnalyticsService.cs:39— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/Services/AnalyticsService.cs:51— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/Services/ThemeSettingsService.cs:382— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/Utilities/SessionUtility.cs:94— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
EmptyCatchBlock src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs:114— empty catch block — the error is discarded with nothing recorded, so a failure here leaves no trace anywhere. Record it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate. Where swallowing one specific failure really is correct — as it often is on a teardown/dispose path where throwing would mask the original failure — catch exactly that exception type and write down WHY in a comment on the catch. Both are needed: a comment on a catch-all still swallows every failure nobody anticipated, and a note that only restates the swallow ("ignored", "do nothing") is read as no explanation at all.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:306— SA1011 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:307— SA1101 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:308— SA1118 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:309— SA1200 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:310— SA1201 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:311— SA1202 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:312— SA1309 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:313— SA1310 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:314— SA1600 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:315— SA1602 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:316— SA1611 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:317— SA1633 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:318— SA1634 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
AnalyzerSeverityNone src/.editorconfig:319— SA1652 — this rule is switched off for every file the section matches, in every project under this directory, and the only record that it was ever switched off is this line: nothing at the sites it would have reported says so, so a reader of that code has no reason to look here, and code added years from now inherits the decision silently. Fix what the rule reports and delete the entry, or — where some sites really are legitimate — leave the rule on and suppress it at those sites with their reasons, so it keeps protecting the rest of the tree. If the rule is genuinely unwanted here, say why — on this line after the entry, or in the comment run directly above it: a comment that only repeats the rule's own title is read as no explanation at all and leaves this row in place.
Namespace dependency cycle src/Notepads/Controls/Markdown/MarkdownExtensionView.xaml.cs:20— The namespaces Notepads.Controls ↔ Notepads.Controls.Markdown ↔ Notepads.Controls.TextEditor ↔ Notepads.Core ↔ Notepads.Core.SessionDataModels ↔ Notepads.Extensions ↔ Notepads.Models ↔ Notepads.Utilities depend on each other. The lightest dependency in the cycle is Notepads.Controls.Markdown → Notepads.Controls.TextEditor (Notepads.Controls.Markdown.MarkdownExtensionView → Notepads.Controls.TextEditor.TextEditorCore, 1 type pair(s)); cut that one first, e.g. by moving the shared type to a namespace both can use or inverting it behind an interface.
D17 · Explicit Debt· NoWarnInCsproj repeated 21 times in 2 files · ×1
NoWarnInCsproj repeated 21 times in 2 files src/Notepads/Notepads.csproj:34— The identical NoWarnInCsproj (`2008`) appears 21 times in 2 files — one decision applied repeatedly (e.g. the same rule silenced on every overload of a fluent API), not 21 independent debts. Decide it once — at the type or project level, or by fixing the underlying pattern — rather than occurrence-by-occurrence. (Every occurrence still counts toward the score and metrics.)
No automated tests — No automated tests — no test code was found in this repository. Untested code is the largest single risk to changing it safely. Start with the code you change most often: add a suite in a framework a runner can collect (xUnit, NUnit or MSTest), and run it in CI so the gap cannot reopen.
Serious — 210 finding(s)
X2 · Cancellation propagation· Async method without CancellationToken · ×39
Async method without CancellationToken: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Controls/FindAndReplace/FindAndReplaceControl.xaml.cs:70— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Controls/GoTo/GoToControl.xaml.cs:57— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: PrintDetailedOptions_OptionChanged src/Notepads/Controls/Print/PrintArgs.cs:410— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: ShowPrintUIAsync src/Notepads/Controls/Print/PrintArgs.cs:485— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: EditorSettingsService_OnFontFamilyChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:45— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: EditorSettingsService_OnFontSizeChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:54— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: EditorSettingsService_OnFontStyleChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:62— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: EditorSettingsService_OnFontWeightChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:70— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: EditorSettingsService_OnDefaultTextWrappingChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:78— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: EditorSettingsService_OnHighlightMisspelledWordsChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:86— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: EditorSettingsService_OnDefaultDisplayLineNumbersViewStateChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:94— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: EditorSettingsService_OnDefaultLineHighlighterViewStateChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:102— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:110— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: CallOnUIThreadAsync src/Notepads/Extensions/DispatcherExtensions.cs:14— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: GetFileFromFutureAccessListAsync src/Notepads/Utilities/FutureAccessListUtility.cs:17— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: ThemeSettingsService_OnThemeChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/AboutPage.xaml.cs:41— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/SettingsPage.xaml.cs:49— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: ThemeSettingsService_OnThemeChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/SettingsPage.xaml.cs:54— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/PersonalizationSettingsPage.xaml.cs:64— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: PowerManager_EnergySaverStatusChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/PersonalizationSettingsPage.xaml.cs:107— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: UISettings_AdvancedEffectsEnabledChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/PersonalizationSettingsPage.xaml.cs:116— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: ThemeSettingsService_OnThemeChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:279— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: RenameAsync src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:294— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: StartCheckingFileStatusPeriodically src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:369— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
Async method without CancellationToken: FindAndReplaceControl_OnFindAndReplaceButtonClicked src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:985— No CancellationToken parameter — this work can't be stopped early once started.
async void method: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Controls/FindAndReplace/FindAndReplaceControl.xaml.cs:70— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Controls/GoTo/GoToControl.xaml.cs:57— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: PrintDetailedOptions_OptionChanged src/Notepads/Controls/Print/PrintArgs.cs:410— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: EditorSettingsService_OnFontFamilyChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:45— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: EditorSettingsService_OnFontSizeChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:54— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: EditorSettingsService_OnFontStyleChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:62— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: EditorSettingsService_OnFontWeightChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:70— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: EditorSettingsService_OnDefaultTextWrappingChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:78— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: EditorSettingsService_OnHighlightMisspelledWordsChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:86— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: EditorSettingsService_OnDefaultDisplayLineNumbersViewStateChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:94— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: EditorSettingsService_OnDefaultLineHighlighterViewStateChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:102— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs:110— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: ThemeSettingsService_OnThemeChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/AboutPage.xaml.cs:41— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/SettingsPage.xaml.cs:49— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: ThemeSettingsService_OnThemeChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/SettingsPage.xaml.cs:54— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/PersonalizationSettingsPage.xaml.cs:64— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: PowerManager_EnergySaverStatusChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/PersonalizationSettingsPage.xaml.cs:107— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: UISettings_AdvancedEffectsEnabledChanged src/Notepads/Views/Settings/PersonalizationSettingsPage.xaml.cs:116— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: ThemeSettingsService_OnThemeChanged src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:279— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: StartCheckingFileStatusPeriodically src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:369— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: FindAndReplaceControl_OnFindAndReplaceButtonClicked src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:985— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: OnPaste src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.cs:360— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: ThemeSettingsService_OnAccentColorChanged src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs:92— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: Sets_DragOver src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs:579— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
async void method: Sets_Drop src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs:684— `async void` can't be awaited and its exceptions crash the process instead of propagating. Return `Task` — or, where the delegate contract requires void (timer/event/callback registrations), make this a thin void shim that awaits a Task-returning inner method inside try/catch so exceptions are contained.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/Services/AnalyticsService.cs:22— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/Services/AnalyticsService.cs:39— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/Services/AnalyticsService.cs:51— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:394— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs:634— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs:154— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs:394— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs:114— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/Services/ThemeSettingsService.cs:382— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/Utilities/SessionUtility.cs:94— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/App.xaml.cs:167— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads/App.xaml.cs:236— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/LinkAnchorInline.cs:95— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
Swallowed exception (empty catch) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs:332— An empty catch block silently discards the error — failures vanish with no log and no rethrow. Log it, handle it, or don't catch it.
TodoComment src/Notepads.Controls/Helpers/ThemeListener.cs:94— // TODO: This doesn't stop the multiple calls if we're in our faked 'White' HighContrast Mode below. — source code is not a task system: move the work to your tracker and leave a reference instead (e.g. `// REF: #123`), so the task is planned where tasks live and the ticket links back to the code.
TodoComment src/Notepads.Controls/Helpers/ThemeListener.cs:117— // TODO: Not sure if HighContrastScheme names are localized? — source code is not a task system: move the work to your tracker and leave a reference instead (e.g. `// REF: #123`), so the task is planned where tasks live and the ticket links back to the code.
TodoComment src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownTable.cs:128— // TODO: we can skip this step if none of the column widths changed, and just re-use — source code is not a task system: move the work to your tracker and leave a reference instead (e.g. `// REF: #123`), so the task is planned where tasks live and the ticket links back to the code.
TodoComment src/Notepads.Controls/SetsView/SetsView.HeaderLayout.cs:125— // TODO: Consolidate this logic with above better? — source code is not a task system: move the work to your tracker and leave a reference instead (e.g. `// REF: #123`), so the task is planned where tasks live and the ticket links back to the code.
TodoComment src/Notepads.Controls/SetsView/SetsView.HeaderLayout.cs:148— //// TODO: If it's less, should we move the selected set to only be the one shown by default? — source code is not a task system: move the work to your tracker and leave a reference instead (e.g. `// REF: #123`), so the task is planned where tasks live and the ticket links back to the code.
TodoComment src/Notepads.Controls/SetsView/SetsView.cs:30— // TODO: Should this be based on SetsWidthMode — source code is not a task system: move the work to your tracker and leave a reference instead (e.g. `// REF: #123`), so the task is planned where tasks live and the ticket links back to the code.
TodoComment src/Notepads/App.xaml.cs:196— // TODO: Load state from previously suspended application — source code is not a task system: move the work to your tracker and leave a reference instead (e.g. `// REF: #123`), so the task is planned where tasks live and the ticket links back to the code.
TodoComment src/Notepads/Core/TabContextFlyout.cs:264— // TODO: Use Content Dialog to display error message — source code is not a task system: move the work to your tracker and leave a reference instead (e.g. `// REF: #123`), so the task is planned where tasks live and the ticket links back to the code.
TodoComment src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs:257— // TODO: Use Content Dialog to display error message — source code is not a task system: move the work to your tracker and leave a reference instead (e.g. `// REF: #123`), so the task is planned where tasks live and the ticket links back to the code.
TodoComment src/Notepads/Services/AnalyticsService.cs:33— // TODO: Simplify this to use a single line, reduce complexity of properties by all the callers — source code is not a task system: move the work to your tracker and leave a reference instead (e.g. `// REF: #123`), so the task is planned where tasks live and the ticket links back to the code.
TooManyMethods: TextEditorCore src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.cs— TooManyMethods — 1197 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded), 100 methods, declared across 12 files: TextEditor/TextEditorCore.cs (53), TextEditor/TextEditorCore.ExternalEventListener.cs (11), TextEditor/TextEditorCore.FindAndReplace.cs (10), TextEditor/TextEditorCore.LineNumbers.cs (8), +8 more file(s). The bar is 30 methods; this is 70 over it, 3.33× the bar. To reduce it, group the members that share the same data into a smaller type of their own and delegate to it, so no single type carries every responsibility.
TooManyMethods: NotepadsMainPage src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs— TooManyMethods — 945 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded), 81 methods, declared across 7 files: MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs (33), MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs (23), MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs (12), MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.Theme.cs (4), +3 more file(s). The bar is 30 methods; this is 51 over it, 2.70× the bar. To reduce it, group the members that share the same data into a smaller type of their own and delegate to it, so no single type carries every responsibility.
TooManyMethods: TextEditor src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs— TooManyMethods — 585 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded), 65 methods. The bar is 30 methods; this is 35 over it, 2.17× the bar. To reduce it, group the members that share the same data into a smaller type of their own and delegate to it, so no single type carries every responsibility.
TooManyMethods: NotepadsCore src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs— TooManyMethods — 433 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded), 49 methods. The bar is 30 methods; this is 19 over it, 1.63× the bar. To reduce it, group the members that share the same data into a smaller type of their own and delegate to it, so no single type carries every responsibility.
TooManyMethods: SetsView src/Notepads.Controls/SetsView/SetsView.cs— TooManyMethods — 453 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded), 39 methods, declared across 4 files: SetsView/SetsView.cs (24), SetsView/SetsView.HeaderLayout.cs (6), SetsView/SetsView.ItemSources.cs (5), SetsView/SetsView.Properties.cs (4). The bar is 30 methods; this is 9 over it, 1.30× the bar. To reduce it, group the members that share the same data into a smaller type of their own and delegate to it, so no single type carries every responsibility.
TooManyMethods: GridSplitter src/Notepads.Controls/GridSplitter/GridSplitter.Helper.cs— TooManyMethods — 473 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded), 35 methods, declared across 4 files: GridSplitter/GridSplitter.Helper.cs (14), GridSplitter/GridSplitter.Events.cs (8), GridSplitter/GridSplitter.cs (8), GridSplitter/GridSplitter.Options.cs (5). The bar is 30 methods; this is 5 over it, 1.17× the bar. To reduce it, group the members that share the same data into a smaller type of their own and delegate to it, so no single type carries every responsibility.
HackComment src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/TextRunInline.cs:387— // HACK: in case end < start happens — a workaround marked in source: record what it is compensating for and what would allow its removal (the upstream fix, the API it is waiting on, the invariant it restores), so the next reader can judge whether it is still needed rather than rediscovering why it is there.
HackComment src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs:117— // HACK: Superscript is not allowed within a hyperlink. But if we switch it around, so — a workaround marked in source: record what it is compensating for and what would allow its removal (the upstream fix, the API it is waiting on, the invariant it restores), so the next reader can judge whether it is still needed rather than rediscovering why it is there.
HackComment src/Notepads.Controls/SetsView/SetsView.cs:486— // HACK: Simulate left most and right most (tab) edge shadow — a workaround marked in source: record what it is compensating for and what would allow its removal (the upstream fix, the API it is waiting on, the invariant it restores), so the next reader can judge whether it is still needed rather than rediscovering why it is there.
ClassTooLong: EmojiInline src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/EmojiInline.cs— ClassTooLong — 854 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded), 3 methods. The bar is 400 significant lines; this is 454 over it, 2.14× the bar. To reduce it, group the members that share the same data into a smaller type of their own and delegate to it, so no single type carries every responsibility.
ClassTooLong: MarkdownTextBlock src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.Methods.cs— ClassTooLong — 833 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded), 18 methods, declared across 3 files: MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.Methods.cs (9), MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.cs (5), MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.Events.cs (4). The bar is 400 significant lines; this is 433 over it, 2.08× the bar. To reduce it, group the members that share the same data into a smaller type of their own and delegate to it, so no single type carries every responsibility.
ClassTooLong: MarkdownRenderer src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs— ClassTooLong — 649 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded), 29 methods, declared across 3 files: Render/MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs (12), Render/MarkdownRenderer.Blocks.cs (9), Render/MarkdownRenderer.cs (8). The bar is 400 significant lines; this is 249 over it, 1.62× the bar. To reduce it, group the members that share the same data into a smaller type of their own and delegate to it, so no single type carries every responsibility.
Blocking `Thread.Sleep` inside an `async` method src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:189— `Thread.Sleep` parks the thread for the whole delay: no other work runs on it, and under load the pool must grow to make up for it. `await Task.Delay(…)` suspends only this method.
Blocking `Thread.Sleep` inside an `async` method src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:244— `Thread.Sleep` parks the thread for the whole delay: no other work runs on it, and under load the pool must grow to make up for it. `await Task.Delay(…)` suspends only this method.
Blocking `Thread.Sleep` inside an `async` method src/Notepads/Services/LoggingService.cs:136— `Thread.Sleep` parks the thread for the whole delay: no other work runs on it, and under load the pool must grow to make up for it. `await Task.Delay(…)` suspends only this method.
Swallowed exception (caught, then discarded) src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs:587— `catch (Exception)` does nothing with the exception it caught — the body neither logs it, rethrows it, nor even names it, so the failure is discarded as completely as by an empty catch. Log it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate; if one specific failure genuinely cannot matter, catch exactly that exception type and say why in a comment on the catch.
Swallowed exception (caught, then discarded) src/Notepads/Services/MRUService.cs:50— `catch (Exception)` does nothing with the exception it caught — the body neither logs it, rethrows it, nor even names it, so the failure is discarded as completely as by an empty catch. Log it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate; if one specific failure genuinely cannot matter, catch exactly that exception type and say why in a comment on the catch.
Swallowed exception (caught, then discarded) src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs:627— `catch (Exception)` does nothing with the exception it caught — the body neither logs it, rethrows it, nor even names it, so the failure is discarded as completely as by an empty catch. Log it through whatever this codebase already uses to report problems, or let it propagate; if one specific failure genuinely cannot matter, catch exactly that exception type and say why in a comment on the catch.
MethodTooLong: MarkdownDocument.Parse src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/MarkdownDocument.cs:91— MethodTooLong — Parse runs 115 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded) in one body. The bar is 100 significant lines; this is 15 over it, 1.15× the bar. This is length, not branching: a long straight-line body scores low on complexity and is still read whole to change any part of it, so the complexity numbers beside this row neither confirm nor excuse it. To reduce it, extract each cohesive step of the body — the runs of statements that work on the same values and would earn the same name — into its own named unit, and have this one call them in order.
MethodTooLong: MarkdownTextBlock.RenderMarkdown src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.Methods.cs:40— MethodTooLong — RenderMarkdown runs 101 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded) in one body. The bar is 100 significant lines; this is 1 over it, 1.01× the bar. This is length, not branching: a long straight-line body scores low on complexity and is still read whole to change any part of it, so the complexity numbers beside this row neither confirm nor excuse it. To reduce it, extract each cohesive step of the body — the runs of statements that work on the same values and would earn the same name — into its own named unit, and have this one call them in order.
Duplicated block (32 lines × 2) src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.Indentation.cs:59— src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.Indentation.cs:59-90 | src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.Indentation.cs:182-213 — both copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from each site — the copies drift apart the first time only one of them is edited. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.Indentation.cs:59` it runs out through the closing brace of the declaration holding it — the window is that declaration's tail, not a fragment that begins part-way through something, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that.
Duplicated block (32 lines × 2) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs:441— src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs:441-472 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs:488-519 — both copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from each site — the copies drift apart the first time only one of them is edited. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownRenderer.Inlines.cs:441` it runs out through the closing brace of the declaration holding it — the window is that declaration's tail, not a fragment that begins part-way through something, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that. Note first that the copies are not typed on the same thing: the declarations holding them bind `element` to `SuperscriptTextInline` in one and `SubscriptTextInline` in another, and the duplicated lines use it. The extracted unit therefore needs a parameter type that fits BOTH — their common supertype where they have one, or a new abstraction over them where they do not — and settling that is the step that comes BEFORE the extraction above. Where the two types are deliberately unrelated, the duplication is the price of that separation and the honest resolution is to record the decision rather than to extract.
Duplicated block (13 lines × 2) REDACTED:211— REDACTED:211-223 | REDACTED:263-275 — both copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from each site — the copies drift apart the first time only one of them is edited. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `REDACTED:211` it runs out through the closing brace of the declaration holding it — the window is that declaration's tail, not a fragment that begins part-way through something, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that. The matched lines also transfer control out of the body holding them, which cannot survive a move into a called unit unchanged: have the extracted unit return that decision and let each site act on it.
Duplicated block (13 lines × 2) src/Notepads/Controls/Print/PrintArgs.cs:436— src/Notepads/Controls/Print/PrintArgs.cs:436-448 | src/Notepads/Controls/Print/PrintArgs.cs:455-467 — both copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from each site — the copies drift apart the first time only one of them is edited.
Low cohesion: FindAndReplaceControl (LCOM4 6) src/Notepads/Controls/FindAndReplace/FindAndReplaceControl.xaml.cs:21— FindAndReplaceControl's methods fall into 6 groups that share no field and call none of each other, against a bar of more than 3 for this run (LCOM4, configurable — your repository's bar is the one quoted here). Each group is a set of methods reachable from one another through shared fields or direct calls, so 6 groups means the type has that many internally-connected clusters with nothing tying them together. Types whose shape makes a high count expected — and which would otherwise dominate this list — are excluded before this row is raised, so this is a genuine split candidate rather than a metric reading. It is still a shape, not a defect: confirm the groups match responsibilities you can name before splitting.
Low cohesion: TextEditor (LCOM4 4) src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:39— TextEditor's methods fall into 4 groups that share no field and call none of each other, against a bar of more than 3 for this run (LCOM4, configurable — your repository's bar is the one quoted here). Each group is a set of methods reachable from one another through shared fields or direct calls, so 4 groups means the type has that many internally-connected clusters with nothing tying them together. Types whose shape makes a high count expected — and which would otherwise dominate this list — are excluded before this row is raised, so this is a genuine split candidate rather than a metric reading. It is still a shape, not a defect: confirm the groups match responsibilities you can name before splitting.
MarkdownDocument.Parse (cyclomatic 61) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/MarkdownDocument.cs:91— MarkdownDocument.Parse has cyclomatic complexity 61 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
HyperlinkInline.ParseEmailAddress (cyclomatic 32) REDACTED:319— HyperlinkInline.ParseEmailAddress has cyclomatic complexity 32 (threshold 15). To reduce it, name the conditions: bind each compound test to a well-named local or a small predicate function, so the body reads as a sequence of named decisions rather than a chain of operators.
Common.FindNextInlineElement (cyclomatic 31) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Helpers/Common.cs:82— Common.FindNextInlineElement has cyclomatic complexity 31 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
MarkdownLinkInline.Parse (cyclomatic 29) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/MarkdownLinkInline.cs:60— MarkdownLinkInline.Parse has cyclomatic complexity 29 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
CodeBlock.Parse (cyclomatic 25) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/CodeBlock.cs:45— CodeBlock.Parse has cyclomatic complexity 25 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
LinkReferenceBlock.Parse (cyclomatic 25) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/LinkReferenceBlock.cs:43— LinkReferenceBlock.Parse has cyclomatic complexity 25 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the branches: extract each independent case into its own named function, or replace a long branch ladder over a single value with a data-driven lookup or dispatch table.
TableRow.ParseContents (cyclomatic 25) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/TableBlock.cs:195— TableRow.ParseContents has cyclomatic complexity 25 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
NotepadsCore.Sets_Drop (cyclomatic 24) src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs:684— NotepadsCore.Sets_Drop has cyclomatic complexity 24 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body: these branches sit side by side rather than nested inside one another, so extracting each one on its own would leave a function per branch. Group the statements between the checks into named steps and move each step into its own function, so the body reads as a short sequence of named stages.
SideBySideDiffViewer.RenderDiff (cyclomatic 24) src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:162— SideBySideDiffViewer.RenderDiff has cyclomatic complexity 24 (threshold 15). Most of this is not in the body itself: 2 of the 24 points are its own statements and the rest belongs to 6 function literals inside it that branch (lines 178, 233, 196, …). The decisions are inside those literals, which nothing outside this body can call, review or test on its own, so splitting the enclosing body is not the move available here. To reduce it, lift the literals' work into a named function or method at the enclosing scope and have each literal call it, then reduce whichever part then reads as the largest.
SetsView.SetsView_SizeChanged (cyclomatic 24) src/Notepads.Controls/SetsView/SetsView.HeaderLayout.cs:39— SetsView.SetsView_SizeChanged has cyclomatic complexity 24 (threshold 15). Of this number, 23 points are the body's own statements and 1 belongs to one function literal inside it that branches. To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
ImageInline.Parse (cyclomatic 23) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/ImageInline.cs:73— ImageInline.Parse has cyclomatic complexity 23 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
TextEditorCore.RemoveIndentation (cyclomatic 22) src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.Indentation.cs:98— TextEditorCore.RemoveIndentation has cyclomatic complexity 22 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
TableBlock.Parse (cyclomatic 20) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/TableBlock.cs:46— TableBlock.Parse has cyclomatic complexity 20 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
NotepadsMainPage.Sets_Loaded (cyclomatic 18) src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs:202— NotepadsMainPage.Sets_Loaded has cyclomatic complexity 18 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
YamlHeaderBlock.Parse (cyclomatic 17) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/YamlHeaderBlock.cs:42— YamlHeaderBlock.Parse has cyclomatic complexity 17 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
SessionManager.SaveSessionAsync (cyclomatic 16) src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs:168— SessionManager.SaveSessionAsync has cyclomatic complexity 16 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body: these branches sit side by side rather than nested inside one another, so extracting each one on its own would leave a function per branch. Group the statements between the checks into named steps and move each step into its own function, so the body reads as a short sequence of named stages.
SuperscriptTextInline.Parse (cyclomatic 16) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/SuperscriptTextInline.cs:44— SuperscriptTextInline.Parse has cyclomatic complexity 16 (threshold 15). To reduce it, separate the cases: extract each independent branch into its own named function, and where the body has guards that only reject input, fold those into early returns at the top.
MarkdownDocument.Parse (cognitive 143) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/MarkdownDocument.cs:91— MarkdownDocument.Parse has cognitive complexity 143 (threshold 15). To reduce it, flatten the nesting: invert conditions into early returns or guard clauses so the happy path stays at one level, and lift the deepest nested block into its own named function.
SetsView.SetsView_SizeChanged (cognitive 75) src/Notepads.Controls/SetsView/SetsView.HeaderLayout.cs:39— SetsView.SetsView_SizeChanged has cognitive complexity 75 (threshold 15). Of this number, 73 points are the body's own statements and 2 belong to one function literal inside it that branches. To reduce it, flatten the nesting: invert conditions into early returns or guard clauses so the happy path stays at one level, and lift the deepest nested block into its own named function.
CodeBlock.Parse (cognitive 69) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/CodeBlock.cs:45— CodeBlock.Parse has cognitive complexity 69 (threshold 15). To reduce it, flatten the nesting: invert conditions into early returns or guard clauses so the happy path stays at one level, and lift the deepest nested block into its own named function.
SideBySideDiffViewer.RenderDiff (cognitive 57) src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:162— SideBySideDiffViewer.RenderDiff has cognitive complexity 57 (threshold 15). Most of this is not in the body itself: 1 of the 57 points is its own statement and the rest belongs to 6 function literals inside it that branch (lines 178, 233, 196, …). The decisions are inside those literals, which nothing outside this body can call, review or test on its own, so splitting the enclosing body is not the move available here. To reduce it, lift the literals' work into a named function or method at the enclosing scope and have each literal call it, then reduce whichever part then reads as the largest.
ListBlock.Parse (cognitive 56) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/ListBlock.cs:46— ListBlock.Parse has cognitive complexity 56 (threshold 15). To reduce it, flatten the nesting: invert conditions into early returns or guard clauses so the happy path stays at one level, and lift the deepest nested block into its own named function.
MarkdownLinkInline.Parse (cognitive 53) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/MarkdownLinkInline.cs:60— MarkdownLinkInline.Parse has cognitive complexity 53 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
Common.FindNextInlineElement (cognitive 51) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Helpers/Common.cs:82— Common.FindNextInlineElement has cognitive complexity 51 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
TextEditorCore.RemoveIndentation (cognitive 43) src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.Indentation.cs:98— TextEditorCore.RemoveIndentation has cognitive complexity 43 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
TableRow.ParseContents (cognitive 39) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/TableBlock.cs:195— TableRow.ParseContents has cognitive complexity 39 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
ImageInline.Parse (cognitive 36) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/ImageInline.cs:73— ImageInline.Parse has cognitive complexity 36 (threshold 15). To reduce it, flatten the nesting: invert conditions into early returns or guard clauses so the happy path stays at one level, and lift the deepest nested block into its own named function.
Common.ParseLines (cognitive 35) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Helpers/Common.cs:347— Common.ParseLines has cognitive complexity 35 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
NotepadsCore.Sets_Drop (cognitive 29) src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs:684— NotepadsCore.Sets_Drop has cognitive complexity 29 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body: most of this score is breadth rather than depth — checks laid out side by side rather than stacked — so group the statements between the checks into named steps and move each step into its own function. Some of it IS depth: where a check sits inside another whose only job is to reach it, merge the two into one condition, and where an else follows a branch that already returns, drop the trailing else and let the rest of the body continue at one level.
LinkReferenceBlock.Parse (cognitive 28) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/LinkReferenceBlock.cs:43— LinkReferenceBlock.Parse has cognitive complexity 28 (threshold 15). To reduce it, flatten the nesting: invert conditions into early returns or guard clauses so the happy path stays at one level, and lift the deepest nested block into its own named function.
TableBlock.Parse (cognitive 27) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/TableBlock.cs:46— TableBlock.Parse has cognitive complexity 27 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
SuperscriptTextInline.Parse (cognitive 27) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/SuperscriptTextInline.cs:44— SuperscriptTextInline.Parse has cognitive complexity 27 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
TextRunInline.Parse (cognitive 26) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/TextRunInline.cs:299— TextRunInline.Parse has cognitive complexity 26 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
HyperlinkInline.ParseEmailAddress (cognitive 25) REDACTED:319— HyperlinkInline.ParseEmailAddress has cognitive complexity 25 (threshold 15). To reduce it, name the conditions: bind each compound test to a well-named local or a small predicate function, so the body reads as a sequence of named decisions rather than a chain of operators.
TextEditorCore.TryFindNextAndSelect (cognitive 24) src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.FindAndReplace.cs:47— TextEditorCore.TryFindNextAndSelect has cognitive complexity 24 (threshold 15). To reduce it, flatten the nesting: invert conditions into early returns or guard clauses so the happy path stays at one level, and lift the deepest nested block into its own named function.
TextEditorCore.TryFindPreviousAndSelect (cognitive 24) src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.FindAndReplace.cs:103— TextEditorCore.TryFindPreviousAndSelect has cognitive complexity 24 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
NotepadsMainPage.Sets_Loaded (cognitive 24) src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.xaml.cs:202— NotepadsMainPage.Sets_Loaded has cognitive complexity 24 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
YamlHeaderBlock.Parse (cognitive 24) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/YamlHeaderBlock.cs:42— YamlHeaderBlock.Parse has cognitive complexity 24 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
FileSystemUtility.AnalyzeAndGuessEncoding (cognitive 21) src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs:471— FileSystemUtility.AnalyzeAndGuessEncoding has cognitive complexity 21 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
GridSplitter.VerticalMove (cognitive 21) src/Notepads.Controls/GridSplitter/GridSplitter.Events.cs:170— GridSplitter.VerticalMove has cognitive complexity 21 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body. This shape REPEATS in the file: one other method here (GridSplitter.HorizontalMove) has the same decision points, in the same order, at the same nesting depths — so this is one pattern written twice rather than two separate problems. Splitting this body alone leaves the other exactly as it is. Where these are variations on one operation, the change that clears both is the shared one: lift the common shape into a single routine the variants call, parameterised by whatever genuinely differs between them, and keep in each method only the part that is not shared.
GridSplitter.HorizontalMove (cognitive 21) src/Notepads.Controls/GridSplitter/GridSplitter.Events.cs:236— GridSplitter.HorizontalMove has cognitive complexity 21 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body. This shape REPEATS in the file: one other method here (GridSplitter.VerticalMove) has the same decision points, in the same order, at the same nesting depths — so this is one pattern written twice rather than two separate problems. Splitting this body alone leaves the other exactly as it is. Where these are variations on one operation, the change that clears both is the shared one: lift the common shape into a single routine the variants call, parameterised by whatever genuinely differs between them, and keep in each method only the part that is not shared.
Common.SkipQuoteCharacters (cognitive 21) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Helpers/Common.cs:444— Common.SkipQuoteCharacters has cognitive complexity 21 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
SessionManager.SaveSessionAsync (cognitive 20) src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs:168— SessionManager.SaveSessionAsync has cognitive complexity 20 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body: most of this score is breadth rather than depth — checks laid out side by side rather than stacked — so group the statements between the checks into named steps and move each step into its own function. Some of it IS depth: where a check sits inside another whose only job is to reach it, merge the two into one condition.
NotepadsMainPage.SaveAsync (cognitive 18) src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs:159— NotepadsMainPage.SaveAsync has cognitive complexity 18 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
ListBlock.ReplaceStringBuilders (cognitive 18) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/ListBlock.cs:312— ListBlock.ReplaceStringBuilders has cognitive complexity 18 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
MarkdownTable.MeasureOverride (cognitive 18) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownTable.cs:80— MarkdownTable.MeasureOverride has cognitive complexity 18 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
NotepadsCore.Sets_DragOver (cognitive 17) src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs:579— NotepadsCore.Sets_DragOver has cognitive complexity 17 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
ListBlock.ParseItemPreamble (cognitive 17) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/ListBlock.cs:216— ListBlock.ParseItemPreamble has cognitive complexity 17 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
FileSystemUtility.GetAbsolutePathFromCommandLine (cognitive 16) src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs:186— FileSystemUtility.GetAbsolutePathFromCommandLine has cognitive complexity 16 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
FileSystemUtility.RemoveExecutableNameOrPathFromCommandLineArgs (cognitive 16) src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs:243— FileSystemUtility.RemoveExecutableNameOrPathFromCommandLineArgs has cognitive complexity 16 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
MarkdownRenderer.AllTextIsSuperscript (cognitive 16) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Render/MarkdownRenderer.cs:136— MarkdownRenderer.AllTextIsSuperscript has cognitive complexity 16 (threshold 15). To reduce it, split the body into named stages: move each independent step or branch into its own named function so the body reads as a short sequence of named calls rather than one long body.
FileTooLong: TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs— FileTooLong — 615 significant lines (blank, comment-only and punctuation-only lines excluded). The bar is 500 significant lines; this is 115 over it, 1.23× the bar. To reduce it, split the file along the responsibilities already in it: move each cohesive group of declarations into its own sibling file in the same module or package, so no one file has to be read whole to change one of them.
D4 · Code Duplication· Members sharing a duplicated core (5 members, 50+ identical tokens) · ×1
Members sharing a duplicated core (5 members, 50+ identical tokens) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs:45— src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs:45-102 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldTextInline.cs:45-91 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/EmojiInline.cs:32-80 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/ItalicTextInline.cs:45-86 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/StrikethroughTextInline.cs:44-83 — These 5 members share a duplicated core: a run of at least 50 identical tokens appears in every one of them. That run is NOT broken out as duplicated-block rows below — it is what admitted this row, and the blocks below cover only the part of it that clears the block floor, so they understate the correspondence. Read the members as one construct written 5 times. The repair is at the members' grain — factor the shared implementation out once and have all of them call it with their differences as parameters or as an injected step, or, where the difference is systematic, generate them from one template. Extracting the individual blocks below is not the same fix: it leaves every body in place and the next edit still has to be made 5 times.
Duplicated block (30–36 lines × 2) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs:67— src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs:67-102 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldTextInline.cs:62-91 — before extracting anything, compare `src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs` and `src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldTextInline.cs` as WHOLE FILES: this scan already matched 3 separate duplicated blocks between them, totalling at least 86 lines, which is the signature of one file having been copied from the other rather than of a helper waiting to be extracted. If that is what happened, the fix is to keep one copy and have the other call it (or delete it), which resolves this row and its siblings together — extracting one helper per block leaves the fork in place. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs:67` it runs out through the closing brace of the declaration holding it — the window is that declaration's tail, not a fragment that begins part-way through something, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that. The matched lines also transfer control out of the body holding them, which cannot survive a move into a called unit unchanged: have the extracted unit return that decision and let each site act on it.
Duplicated block (28 lines × 2) src/Notepads/Controls/Print/ContinuationPageFormat.xaml.cs:18— src/Notepads/Controls/Print/ContinuationPageFormat.xaml.cs:18-45 | src/Notepads/Controls/Print/PrintPageFormat.xaml.cs:24-51 — before extracting anything, compare `src/Notepads/Controls/Print/ContinuationPageFormat.xaml.cs` and `src/Notepads/Controls/Print/PrintPageFormat.xaml.cs` as WHOLE FILES: 83% of the shorter file's lines also appear in the other, so this reads as one file having been copied from the other rather than as a helper waiting to be extracted. The 1 duplicated block(s) this scan matched between them are fragments of that copy, not the extent of it — treat the file pair as the unit. If that is what happened, the fix is to keep one copy and have the other call it (or delete it), which resolves this row and its siblings together — extracting one helper per block leaves the fork in place.
Duplicated block (27–28 lines × 3) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs:58— src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs:58-85 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldTextInline.cs:53-80 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/EmojiInline.cs:40-66 — before extracting anything, compare `src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs` and `src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldTextInline.cs` as WHOLE FILES: this scan already matched 3 separate duplicated blocks between them, totalling at least 86 lines, which is the signature of one file having been copied from the other rather than of a helper waiting to be extracted. If that is what happened, the fix is to keep one copy and have the other call it (or delete it), which resolves this row and its siblings together — extracting one helper per block leaves the fork in place.
Duplicated block (22 lines × 5) src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs:67— src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs:67-88 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldTextInline.cs:62-83 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/EmojiInline.cs:48-69 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/ItalicTextInline.cs:57-78 | src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/StrikethroughTextInline.cs:54-75 — before extracting anything, compare `src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldItalicTextInline.cs` and `src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/BoldTextInline.cs` as WHOLE FILES: this scan already matched 3 separate duplicated blocks between them, totalling at least 86 lines, which is the signature of one file having been copied from the other rather than of a helper waiting to be extracted. If that is what happened, the fix is to keep one copy and have the other call it (or delete it), which resolves this row and its siblings together — extracting one helper per block leaves the fork in place. The matched lines also transfer control out of the body holding them, which cannot survive a move into a called unit unchanged: have the extracted unit return that decision and let each site act on it.
Duplicated block (19 lines × 2) src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.FindAndReplace.cs:271— src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.FindAndReplace.cs:271-289 | src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.FindAndReplace.cs:308-326 — both copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from each site — the copies drift apart the first time only one of them is edited. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.FindAndReplace.cs:271` it runs out through the closing brace of the declaration holding it — the window is that declaration's tail, not a fragment that begins part-way through something, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that.
Duplicated block (18 lines × 2) src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:183— src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:183-200 | src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:238-255 — both copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from each site — the copies drift apart the first time only one of them is edited. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:183` it does not close everything it opens, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that.
Duplicated block (11 lines × 2) REDACTED:351— REDACTED:351-361 | REDACTED:376-386 — both copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from each site — the copies drift apart the first time only one of them is edited. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `REDACTED:351` it does not close everything it opens, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that.
Duplicated block (14 lines × 2) src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:203— src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:203-216 | src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:258-271 — both copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from each site — the copies drift apart the first time only one of them is edited. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:203` it begins part-way through the construct above it, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that.
Duplicated block (10 lines × 2) src/Notepads/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs:33— src/Notepads/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs:33-42 | src/Notepads/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs:55-64 — both copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from each site — the copies drift apart the first time only one of them is edited. The `return` at the foot of the matched lines is the enclosing body's own terminal exit, not an early one: it moves with them unchanged, and each site calls the extracted unit from the position that `return` occupied — no decision has to be handed back and re-acted on.
Duplicated block (11 lines × 3) src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs:218— src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs:218-228 | src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs:601-611 | src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs:636-646 — all 3 copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from every one of those sites — resolving only two of them leaves the rest to drift apart the first time one is edited. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs:218` it runs out through the closing brace of the declaration holding it and carries on into the declaration that follows — the window is the tail of one member plus the head of the next, so no call can be substituted for those exact lines, and the smallest declaration that contains all of them is the type they sit in. The repeated unit is the member each site sits in: where those members' bodies are the same, move one whole member to the shared location and have the others delegate to it; where the copies are a run of near-identical overloads or wrappers that differ only in their signatures, the repetition IS the run — a one-line delegation has no helper inside it to lift — so generate the run from the set it enumerates, or accept it and keep each member's own documentation with it.
Duplicated block (11–12 lines × 2) src/Notepads/Core/TabContextFlyout.cs:258— src/Notepads/Core/TabContextFlyout.cs:258-268 | src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs:251-262 — the copies span different directories, so extracting a shared function means choosing where it lives: put it somewhere both call sites can already reach — a location they all depend on today, or a new shared one if there is none — and call it from each site; until then, every change has to be made twice. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `src/Notepads/Core/TabContextFlyout.cs:258` it runs out through the closing brace of the declaration holding it — the window is that declaration's tail, not a fragment that begins part-way through something, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that. Note that the copies do not run to the end of the range shown: their LAST lines are different code, not the same code under different names — the matched region ends inside that line. Extract the lines above it, and read the last line of each site separately.
Duplicated block (5 lines × 4) src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:196— src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:196-200 | src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:212-216 | src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:251-255 | src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:267-271 — all 4 copies are in the same file, so extract the block into one function there and call it from every one of those sites — resolving only two of them leaves the rest to drift apart the first time one is edited. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:196` it does not close everything it opens, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that.
Duplicated block (5 lines × 2) src/Notepads/Commands/KeyboardCommandHandler.cs:26— src/Notepads/Commands/KeyboardCommandHandler.cs:26-30 | src/Notepads/Commands/MouseCommandHandler.cs:27-31 — the copies sit in sibling files of one directory, so a shared home is within easy reach: extract the block into a single shared function the call sites can all reach — a file they already depend on, or a new one alongside them — and call it from both call sites, so a change lands once. Read the line range as the matched WINDOW rather than a finished unit: at `src/Notepads/Commands/KeyboardCommandHandler.cs:26` it does not close everything it opens, so those exact lines cannot be lifted as they stand — widen the region to the smallest complete statement or declaration that contains it, and extract that. Note that the copies do not run to the end of the range shown: their LAST lines are different code, not the same code under different names — the matched region ends inside that line. Extract the lines above it, and read the last line of each site separately. ★ These copies have DRIFTED, and that is worth reading before extracting anything: just after the matched lines, `src/Notepads/Commands/MouseCommandHandler.cs:31` calls `GetCurrentPoint` and `src/Notepads/Commands/KeyboardCommandHandler.cs:30` does not — after which the two agree again for 4 more lines. One of those two behaviours is the intended one and the other is what a copy-paste left behind, so decide which BEFORE unifying them: extracting the shared part will silently settle it, and if the copy that skips the call is the wrong one, that bug is already live.
IC1 · Incompleteness & stubs· Markup wires an event to an empty handler · ×1
Markup wires an event to an empty handler src/Notepads/Controls/FindAndReplace/FindAndReplaceControl.xaml.cs:254— `FindAndReplaceControl.xaml` wires an event to `ReplaceBar_OnTextChanged`, whose body is empty — the markup attaches a listener that does nothing. Implement the handler, or remove the attribute that wires it.
IC1 · Incompleteness & stubs· Both branches open with the same statements · ×1
Both branches open with the same statements — the condition does not decide them src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.MainMenu.cs:82— The first 2 statements of the `if` and of the `else` are identical, so they run on both paths regardless of the condition. Lift them above the `if` — leaving them duplicated inside makes the branches read as though they handled this differently.
SC1 · Supply-chain hygiene· NuGet dependencies are not locked · ×1
NuGet dependencies are not locked — No packages.lock.json and no central package management — restores aren't reproducible or pinned (SSDF PW.4.4). Enable <RestorePackagesWithLockFile>true</RestorePackagesWithLockFile> (commit the lockfile) or adopt Directory.Packages.props. Advisory — never scored.
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Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/Helpers/DispatcherQueueHelper.cs:91— 11 consecutive lines of code sit inside a `/* … */` block — a block of code switched off rather than removed, which rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/InAppNotification/InAppNotification.cs:51— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.Methods.cs:314— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.Methods.cs:317— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.cs:47— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.cs:76— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.cs:77— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.cs:78— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.cs:79— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.cs:112— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.cs:113— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/MarkdownTextBlock.cs:114— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/App.xaml.cs:305— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/App.xaml.cs:306— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/App.xaml.cs:307— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:292— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:298— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:301— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:302— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:307— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:310— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:311— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:319— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:320— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Commented-out code src/Notepads/Controls/DiffViewer/SideBySideDiffViewer.xaml.cs:322— A line of code has been commented out rather than removed — dead weight that rots and confuses. Delete it (version control remembers).
Silent fallback default in catch src/Notepads/Utilities/FutureAccessListUtility.cs:62— `GetFutureAccessListItemCount` swallows every exception into `return -1;` — a data error becomes a silent behavior change with no trail. Log the failure or let validation throw.
Silent fallback default in catch src/Notepads/Views/Settings/TextAndEditorSettingsPage.xaml.cs:448— `IsValidUrl` swallows every exception into `return false;` — a data error becomes a silent behavior change with no trail. Log the failure or let validation throw.
Silent fallback default in catch src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.cs:727— `GoTo` swallows every exception into `return false;` — a data error becomes a silent behavior change with no trail. Log the failure or let validation throw.
Silent fallback default in catch src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.StatusBar.cs:587— `CreateAutoGuessEncodingItem` swallows every exception and sets `encoding = null;` — a data error becomes a silent behavior change with no trail. Log the failure or let validation throw.
Silent fallback default in catch src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs:319— `IsFileWritableAsync` swallows every exception into `return false;` — a data error becomes a silent behavior change with no trail. Log the failure or let validation throw.
Silent fallback default in catch src/Notepads/Utilities/FileSystemUtility.cs:331— `GetFileAsync` swallows every exception into `return null;` — a data error becomes a silent behavior change with no trail. Log the failure or let validation throw.
Duplicated predicate src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/SubscriptTextInline.cs:67— `ParseHelpers.IsMarkdownWhiteSpace(markdown[innerStart]) || ParseHelpers.IsMarkdownWhiteSpace(markdown[innerEnd - 1])` appears character-identically in 2 files — src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/SubscriptTextInline.cs, src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/SuperscriptTextInline.cs. It is one line, so the duplication detector's token window never sees it; the copies drift when only one is corrected. Give the condition a name and one home.
Duplicated predicate src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/LinkReferenceBlock.cs:80— `pos < end && ParseHelpers.IsMarkdownWhiteSpace(markdown[pos])` appears character-identically in 2 files — src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Blocks/LinkReferenceBlock.cs, src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Inlines/ImageInline.cs. It is one line, so the duplication detector's token window never sees it; the copies drift when only one is corrected. Give the condition a name and one home.
Duplicated predicate src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Helpers/Common.cs:397— `startOfLine < end && markdown[startOfLine] == ' '` appears character-identically in 2 files — src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/Helpers/Common.cs, src/Notepads.Controls/MarkdownTextBlock/Markdown/MarkdownDocument.cs. It is one line, so the duplication detector's token window never sees it; the copies drift when only one is corrected. Give the condition a name and one home.
Duplicated predicate src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs:185— `textEditors == null || textEditors.Length == 0` appears character-identically in 2 files — src/Notepads/Core/SessionManager.cs, src/Notepads/Views/MainPage/NotepadsMainPage.IO.cs. It is one line, so the duplication detector's token window never sees it; the copies drift when only one is corrected. Give the condition a name and one home.
D34 · Knowledge Freshness· Most significant orphaned file · ×3
Most significant orphaned file src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditor.xaml.cs:1— One of the orphaned files carrying the most lost knowledge — ranked by size weighted by the file's role in the codebase, the same weighting behind the score above, so core code outranks equally large plumbing. A reasonable place to start a read-through before the aggregate risk above bites.
Most significant orphaned file src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/TextEditorCore.cs:1— One of the orphaned files carrying the most lost knowledge — ranked by size weighted by the file's role in the codebase, the same weighting behind the score above, so core code outranks equally large plumbing. A reasonable place to start a read-through before the aggregate risk above bites.
Most significant orphaned file src/Notepads/Core/NotepadsCore.cs:1— One of the orphaned files carrying the most lost knowledge — ranked by size weighted by the file's role in the codebase, the same weighting behind the score above, so core code outranks equally large plumbing. A reasonable place to start a read-through before the aggregate risk above bites.
Fat interface: ITextEditor (61 members) src/Notepads/Controls/TextEditor/ITextEditor.cs:19— `ITextEditor` declares 61 members: `Loaded`, `Unloaded`, `KeyDown`, `ModeChanged`, `ModificationStateChanged`, `FileModificationStateChanged`, `LineEndingChanged`, `EncodingChanged`, `SelectionChanged`, `FontZoomFactorChanged`, `TextChanging`, `ChangeReverted`, `FileSaved`, `FileReloaded`, `FileRenamed`, `Id`, `FileType`, `LastSavedSnapshot`, `RequestedLineEnding`, `RequestedEncoding`, `FileNamePlaceholder`, `EditingFileName`, `EditingFilePath`, `EditingFile`, `IsModified`, `FileModificationState`, `Mode`, `DisplayLineNumbers`, `DisplayLineHighlighter`, `Init`, `RenameAsync`, `GetText`, `StartCheckingFileStatusPeriodically`, `StopCheckingFileStatus`, `GetTextEditorStateMetaData`, `ResetEditorState`, `ReloadFromEditingFileAsync`, `GetLineEnding`, `GetEncoding`, `CopyTextToWindowsClipboard`, and 21 more. Counted as the author wrote them — a property is ONE member and its get/set accessors are not counted separately, and an event counts once. A wide interface forces every implementer and caller to depend on methods they don't use (the Interface-Segregation 'I' in SOLID). Split it into focused role-interfaces.
Fat interface: INotepadsCore (39 members) src/Notepads/Core/INotepadsCore.cs:21— `INotepadsCore` declares 39 members: `TextEditorLoaded`, `TextEditorUnloaded`, `TextEditorEditorModificationStateChanged`, `TextEditorFileModificationStateChanged`, `TextEditorSaved`, `TextEditorClosing`, `TextEditorRenamed`, `TextEditorSelectionChanged`, `TextEditorFontZoomFactorChanged`, `TextEditorEncodingChanged`, `TextEditorLineEndingChanged`, `TextEditorModeChanged`, `TextEditorMovedToAnotherAppInstance`, `StorageItemsDropped`, `TextEditorKeyDown`, `CreateTextEditorAsync`, `CreateTextEditor`, `OpenNewTextEditor`, `OpenTextEditor`, `OpenTextEditors`, `SaveContentToFileAndUpdateEditorStateAsync`, `DeleteTextEditor`, `GetNumberOfOpenedTextEditors`, `TryGetSharingContent`, `HaveUnsavedTextEditor`, `HaveNonemptyTextEditor`, `ChangeLineEnding`, `SwitchTo`, `SwitchTo`, `SwitchTo`, `GetSelectedTextEditor`, `GetTextEditor`, `GetTextEditor`, `GetAllTextEditors`, `FocusOnTextEditor`, `FocusOnSelectedTextEditor`, `CloseTextEditor`, `GetTabScrollViewerHorizontalOffset`, `SetTabScrollViewerHorizontalOffset`. Counted as the author wrote them — a property is ONE member and its get/set accessors are not counted separately, and an event counts once. Those 39 declarations carry 36 distinct name(s), so part of the width is overloading rather than separate responsibilities — but 36 operations clears the >15 bar on its own, so the row is about responsibilities, not signatures. A wide interface forces every implementer and caller to depend on methods they don't use (the Interface-Segregation 'I' in SOLID). Split it into focused role-interfaces.
Documentation: no contributor guidance README.md— There is no guidance for contributors in the document. Link to Contributing and add a short overview of what PRs are expected, such as feature requests or bug fixes.
D21 · Naming Consistency· Inconsistent spelling of 'Fallback'. The method `GetFallBackEncoding` uses the two-word spelling 'Fall Back', while the rest of the codebase (e.g., `GetOrCreateFileAsync`, `FileSystemUtility`) and standard .NET conventions use the single word 'Fallback'. · ×1
Inconsistent spelling of 'Fallback'. The method `GetFallBackEncoding` uses the two-word spelling 'Fall Back', while the rest of the codebase (e.g., `GetOrCreateFileAsync`, `FileSystemUtility`) and standard .NET conventions use the single word 'Fallback'. — Rename `GetFallBackEncoding` to `GetFallbackEncoding` to align with the single-word convention used in `GetOrCreateFileAsync` and standard terminology. (symbols: Notepads.Utilities.FileSystemUtility.GetFallBackEncoding, Notepads.Utilities.FileSystemUtility.GetOrCreateFileAsync)
D26 · Project Cohesion· Projects may be oversized for their cohesion · ×1
Projects may be oversized for their cohesion — 1 of 2 project(s) overshoot their size bounds, lowering Project Cohesion to 0.0/10. The most over is `Notepads` (14588 LoC, 95 public types across 19 namespaces). Review these for cohesion — draw the boundary inside the assembly first (group each responsibility into its own namespace/folder and keep the cross-boundary members internal), since splitting a published assembly moves types between packages and breaks consumers.
Dormant codebase — 115 of 115 significant files have no living knowledge — the codebase as a whole is dormant, not 115 separate risks. Counted over 115 of the 209 production source files in this repository: the rest are under the ~2,400-byte size floor this dimension measures over. Re-engage owners or document before change.
No tests found — No test suite could be collected — no discoverable tests to count. If this repository does test, wiring the suite to a framework a runner can collect (xUnit, NUnit or MSTest) is what makes it countable here; a pipeline step that invokes a runner is not evidence on its own, because a runner over an empty suite passes. Tests written as plain executables or shell/PowerShell harnesses are not collectible this way and are not scored here.
No ADRs — No Architecture Decision Records found — no conventional ADR directory, no numbered `NNNN-title` documents in any markup this check reads, and nothing ADR-shaped by content. Design rationale recorded elsewhere (a design-notes tree, a mailing list, pull-request discussion) is not visible to this check and is not re-findable per decision, so a future maintainer cannot ask why one choice was made and get an answer.
M2 · Architecture documentation· No architecture diagram/doc · ×1
No architecture diagram/doc — No C4/Structurizr/PlantUML/Mermaid/Graphviz/D2 diagram, no drawn diagram named for the architecture, no file named `architecture` or `design` in any markup this check reads, and nothing in the README, docs or contributor guides that announces the shape — no `## Architecture` heading, no "architecture overview"/"high-level design" phrasing, no "the architecture is …" introduction, no guided code tour. A shape laid out in prose that never names itself as the architecture is not visible to this check, and neither is one kept outside the repository, so this row reports the absence of a re-findable shape document — not evidence that nobody wrote the shape down.
No release approval gate — The release is automated and no gate that pauses it for a human is DECLARED IN THIS REPOSITORY'S PIPELINE FILES. What was read: every file under `.github/workflows/`, `.forgejo/workflows/`, `.gitea/workflows/`, `.azuredevops/` and `.azure-pipelines/`, plus `.gitlab-ci*` and `azure-pipelines*` — with comment text stripped, so documenting a gate is not declaring one. What would have counted: GitLab's `when: manual`, CircleCI's `type: approval`, an Azure `ManualValidation@` task or an `approvals:` block, a Jenkins `input` step, a `uses:` step naming an approval action, an `environment:` paired with `reviewers` / `required_reviewers` / `protection` / `wait-timer` / `deployment_branch_policy`, a draft-release step, a `workflow_dispatch` promotion, or a release-event gate. ★ What this cannot see, because none of it is a file: a GitHub environment whose required reviewers are configured in repo SETTINGS, a branch protection rule, or an organisation deployment policy — all of them real, enforced gates that live outside the repository. If yours is one of those, this row is wrong and nothing in the tree could have told us. Otherwise: whatever the release trigger points at is published to users unreviewed, so a mistagged or unverified commit ships and the only remedy is a follow-up release.
X2 · Cancellation propagation· Not all async methods take a CancellationToken · ×1
Not all async methods take a CancellationToken — Only 1/80 async methods accept a CancellationToken, so in-flight work can't be stopped early when the caller gives up — whatever ends it in your host (shutdown signal, timeout, abandoned request, user cancel). Thread a token through the call chain and honour it at each await and loop; where a method genuinely cannot be interrupted, omitting it is a deliberate choice — judge against your hosting model.
Every external tool invocation behind a deep-scan dimension — the tool, its captured version, the exact command, how many findings it yielded, and a link to the retained raw output. To reproduce any finding: check out the same commit and run the command shown (repo-relative — never an absolute scratch path). The complete raw scanner output is retained verbatim under artifacts/raw/ (indexed in artifacts/raw/index.json); per-invocation exit codes and wall-clock durations are in sidecar.json — kept out of this table so the rendered report stays byte-identical across runs of the same commit.
nuget: not applicable — nuget: the solution did not restore on the analyzer's .NET SDK (an SDK/target-framework/restore mismatch, common for an older codebase), so there was no restored dependency graph to scan
trivy: not applicable — No Infrastructure-as-Code or container manifests found (Dockerfile, Docker Compose, Terraform, Kubernetes/Helm, CloudFormation, ARM, Bicep, Ansible); nothing to scan.
semgrep: not applicable — No personal data was found crossing a boundary the PII/GDPR ruleset checks — nothing written to a log or console sink, placed in a URL or query string, or persisted to browser storage. That is a clean result for the LEAK surface only: this ruleset detects personal data escaping, it does not inventory the personal data a repository holds, so it is not evidence that this repository has no personal-data surface. The personal-data map (Appendix C) and the C1-C5 compliance cards are what speak to that. semgrep could not parse 1 file(s) — `src/Notepads.Controls/SetsView/SetsView.HeaderLayout.cs` — so the PII/GDPR sweep did not cover the unparsed regions of them; rows reported elsewhere in those files are real.
disclosure: not applicable — No vulnerability-disclosure policy file found (SECURITY.md/.markdown/.rst/.txt at root or under .github/.forgejo/.gitea/docs, .well-known/security.txt). A coordinated-disclosure policy may live off-repo, so this is not evidenced rather than failed.
runtime-hardening: not applicable — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; network egress policy is a cluster-native control that may live at the platform/firewall layer, so there is nothing to assess here.
runtime-hardening: not applicable — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; seccomp/AppArmor/SELinux confinement is a workload-level control, so there is nothing to assess here.
runtime-hardening: not applicable — No Kubernetes/orchestration workloads found in the repository manifests; runtime threat-detection and admission-control policy are cluster-level controls, so there is nothing to assess here.
none (no readable dependency manifest): not applicable — Not scored — no dependency manifest in a supported ecosystem was read for this repository. A gap in the analyzer's language coverage, NOT a finding that the repository is free of vulnerable dependencies (a Python pyproject.toml/requirements.txt (pip/uv/Poetry), a Swift Package.swift/Package.resolved, a Cargo manifest, a Go module (go.mod/go.sum), a Gradle version catalogue, a Maven POM, an sbt build (build.sbt), composer.json, package.json, a Dart pubspec.yaml, an Elixir mix.exs/mix.lock (Hex), a rebar.config / erlang.mk DEPS (Hex), a Ruby Gemfile/Gemfile.lock or .gemspec (Bundler/RubyGems) — not scanned yet).
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Run 01a167b1-8482-780d-a70a-a6e46fc43497 · every finding is also locatable in findings.md, and the complete scoring record (with exit codes + durations) in sidecar.json.
Issues: 48 · Warnings: 210 · Recommendations: 176 · Info: 1 — Appendix A · all findings · full markdown report.
Generated by Watchdog — deterministic code-health analysis. 23-10-2026 @ 07:37 UTC.
Downloadable artifacts
Machine-readable and reproducible from this commit + frozen rubric — drop them straight into a contract appendix, a CRA dossier, or a downstream SCA / VEX tool.