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Introduction

• What is SiteCMD

  A desktop command center for website health: live-site checks, source-code audit, and integrations, all running locally.

• Why local-first

  Why SiteCMD is a desktop app instead of a SaaS, what that decision costs, and what you get back.

Scans

• How a scan works

  What SiteCMD actually does when you click Run Scan, and the two engines under the hood.

• Live-site checks

  The categories of checks SiteCMD runs against your URL, what each one looks for, and why it matters.

• Source audit (Code Scan)

  The second engine: SiteCMD walks your linked project folder and audits the source for the issues a live-site scan can't see.

• Scheduled scans and notifications

  Run scans on a schedule and receive OS notifications while SiteCMD runs in the tray.

• Dependency updates

  The Updates page: review package updates by severity, catch vulnerable dependencies, and verify upgrades after you apply them.

Issues

• Understanding findings

  What severity, confidence, and status mean on every issue SiteCMD shows you.

• The SiteCMD Score

  How the score is calculated, what changes it, and how to read it.

• Triaging issues

  Work through findings: filter, verify, ignore, block, and reopen. The day-to-day workflow.

• Fixing with AI editors

  Use Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, or any MCP-capable AI editor to actually fix the issues SiteCMD finds.

• Reports and exports

  Generate stakeholder-ready reports of your scan history, score trends, and findings.

• Alerts

  The Alerts page: what SiteCMD alerts on, where each alert comes from, and how to work the unread list.

• Activity timeline

  The Activity page: one date-grouped timeline of scans, deploys, updates, and monitoring events, with CSV and JSON export.

• Deploys

  The Deploys page: commits, CI runs, and post-deploy regressions connected to your scan history.

Integrations

• Connecting data sources

  How integrations work in SiteCMD, what they add, and where to set them up.

• Analytics: GA4 and Plausible

  Connect Google Analytics 4 or Plausible to surface traffic data alongside your scan findings.

• Search Console and Bing Webmaster

  Connect Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to see how your site performs in search and which issues are tanking visibility.

• UptimeRobot and Cloudflare

  Connect UptimeRobot for uptime monitoring and Cloudflare for CDN and edge analytics.

• GitHub and Jira

  Connect GitHub for deploy and PR signals, and link SiteCMD findings to tickets in GitHub Issues or Jira.

AI editor setup

• AI editor setup overview

  How SiteCMD's MCP server lets your AI editor read scan results, request fixes, and verify them.

• Cursor

  Set up SiteCMD with Cursor to fix issues with full scan context.

• Claude Code

  Set up SiteCMD with Claude Code to fix issues with full scan context.

• Windsurf

  Set up SiteCMD with Windsurf to fix issues with full scan context.

• VS Code

  Set up SiteCMD with VS Code to fix issues with full scan context.

• GitHub Copilot

  Set up SiteCMD with GitHub Copilot to fix issues with full scan context.

• Cline

  Set up SiteCMD with Cline to fix issues with full scan context.

• JetBrains

  Set up SiteCMD with JetBrains IDEs to fix issues with full scan context.

• Zed

  Set up SiteCMD with Zed to fix issues with full scan context.

• Codex

  Set up SiteCMD with OpenAI Codex CLI to fix issues with full scan context.

CLI

• CLI reference

  The sitecmd command-line interface: installation, subcommands, flags, and exit codes.

• Quality gates in CI

  Use the sitecmd CLI to fail a build when site health regresses. Examples for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, and more.

• Pre-push hooks

  Install sitecmd check as a git pre-push hook to catch regressions before they leave your machine.

Account

• Pricing & SiteCMD Connect

  What stays free locally, what SiteCMD Connect adds, and how beta access works.

• Connecting a site

  Turn on SiteCMD Connect for a production site: activate, prove ownership, inspect the payload, and sync.

• Existing licenses & billing

  Activate an existing license, manage billing, handle offline use, and recover from license errors.

• Privacy & data

  Where SiteCMD stores your data, what network requests it makes, and what those requests do and don't contain.

• Security disclosure

  How to report a security vulnerability in SiteCMD and what happens after you do.

Reference

• Troubleshooting

  Common problems, where SiteCMD's logs and database live, and how to get unstuck.

• Glossary

  Quick definitions for every term that has a specific meaning in SiteCMD.

• FAQ

  Quick answers to the questions people ask most often about SiteCMD.

• Keyboard shortcuts

  Every keyboard shortcut in the SiteCMD desktop app, in one place.