Editor's Summary

Pro audits get an editor’s summary at the top of the report: a couple of plain-English paragraphs on the state of the site, a short point-form list of the highest-impact things to fix, and a one-line verdict. Think of it as the quick note you’d email a manager - the bottom line, not a wall of checks.

It’s generated automatically for every Pro cloud audit (like the site profile and technology detection) and is informational - it never affects your health score.

What it looks like

EDITOR'S SUMMARY
Auto-generated editor's summary - informational, not scored.

The site is in solid shape overall - an 82/100 health score, clean
security headers, and fast core pages. The drag is mostly in links and
images: a handful of broken internal links and missing alt text.

Nothing here is structural. These are quick wins that, cleared, would
push the score into the 90s.

Big-ticket items:
  - Fix 3 broken internal links (links category, -6 pts)
  - Add alt text to 14 images (accessibility)
  - Set a canonical tag on the blog index

Verdict: Healthy site; clear the links and images and you're golden.

The summary appears at the top of every output format - console, HTML, Markdown, JSON, XML, and LLM - and in the dashboard audit detail.

What goes into it

A single Claude Sonnet 4.6 pass over the audit aggregate - never your raw pages:

• Overall and per-category health scores
• The highest-impact issues, ranked
• Counts of passing / warning / failing checks
• Deltas vs. the previous audit when one is available (“score up 7 since last run”) - it degrades gracefully to a first-run framing when there’s no prior audit
• The resolved site profile for context (site type, audience, identity)

Requirements

• Plan: Pro (paid). Free audits silently skip it.
• Cost: a flat 8 credits per audit - small enough to run silently under your confirm_threshold. See Credits & Pricing.
• Config: on by default for logged-in Pro users. Turn it off per project:

[cloud]
editor_summary = false   # skip the editor's summary for this project

Like all cloud features, it never fails your audit: if you’re logged out, on the free plan, or out of credits, the summary is simply omitted and the rest of the report is unaffected.

Related

• Cloud overview - what cloud features add
• Credits & Pricing - pricing and spend controls
• Site metadata - the site profile the summary draws on