MistSeeker focuses on change safety, not just current runtime success. These cases show how hidden structural fragility appears in production-grade systems.
FIELD VALIDATION
FRAME
MistSeeker quantifies structural change risk through COI, ORI, GSS, and related safety indicators. Enterprise teams can use this to identify high-blast-radius zones before migration, refactor, or release.
Operationally stable code can still hide structural break risk.
Log4Shell highlighted a trust-structure failure. MistSeeker flagged high fragility in structural dimensions even when operational behavior looked healthy.
| Metric | Result | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| ORI | ~0.96 (A+) | Functionally stable operation |
| COI | ~0.74 (B) | Relatively organized code structure |
| GSS | ~0.43 - 0.47 (F) | High semantic/structural fragility |
| CSI | ~72 - 73 (C+) | Change impact risk remains |
TAKEAWAY
Well-written and well-running code does not automatically imply safe change dynamics. MistSeeker surfaces hidden propagation risk before production failures.
Mature systems can accumulate high change fragility over time.
Analysis of the Git codebase showed concentrated dependencies and extensive global-state mutation zones, especially around core configuration flows.
| Metric | Result | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| Dependency concentration | High | Core paths tightly coupled |
| Global state dependencies | Hundreds | Wide mutation surface |
| Core file COI | ~0.34 - 0.38 (F) | Structurally weak hotspots |
| Core file ORI | ~0.10 (F) | High operational fragility in critical nodes |
TAKEAWAY
Even highly successful infrastructure software can contain concentrated high-risk zones. MistSeeker helps teams prioritize safe modification boundaries.
Improving runtime quality does not guarantee safer change behavior.
Across versions (v1.26.12, v1.27.11, v1.35.0), operational stability improved, but change fragility and propagation radius remained high.
| Metric | Result | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| CSI | 53.x (RISK) | Persistently risky change baseline |
| ORI | 0.882 -> 0.889 | Operational stability trending up |
| Change Fragility | 0.82 (HIGH) | No meaningful reduction over versions |
| Propagation Radius | 1.00 (MAX) | Maximal blast radius potential |
TAKEAWAY
System performance can improve while structural change risk remains flat. MistSeeker makes this mismatch measurable for release planning.
ENTERPRISE IMPLICATION