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CLI Commands

Reference for the overview and audit commands exposed by AnswerLint.

The CLI is intentionally compact. Most teams use `overview` for orientation and `audit` for day-to-day work.

Command

answerlint overview   (alias: info)

answerlint audit [options]

  --url <url>           Single URL
  --file <path>         Local .md or .html
  --dir <path>          Directory of .md / .html
  --sitemap <url>       Crawl URLs from sitemap.xml

  --output <format>     html | json | csv (default: html)
  --output-path <path>  Write report to this path

  --threshold <n>       CI threshold (default: 70)
  --ci                  Exit 1 if composite < threshold

  --ignore-robots       Ignore robots.txt
  --depth <n>           Crawl depth (default: 1)
  --rate <n>            Requests per second (default: 1)
  --config <path>       Path to .answerlint.json

  --probe               Reserved for future LLM probe mode
  --compare <url>       Compare one target URL against one competitor URL
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