URL: /cloud/editor-summary

---
title: "Editor's Summary"
description: "An auto-generated, exec-email-style summary of your audit - prose narrative plus point-form big-ticket items - for Pro audits"
icon: "newspaper"
---

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](/cloud/site-metadata) and [technology detection](/cloud/technologies)) 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](/dashboard) audit detail.

## What goes into it

A single [Claude Sonnet 4.6](/cloud) 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](/cloud/site-metadata) for context (site type, audience, identity)

## Requirements

<Note>The editor's summary is a **Pro feature**. Free-plan audits skip it (the rest of the audit runs normally); upgrade to Pro to enable it.</Note>

- **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](/cloud/credits).
- **Config:** on by default for logged-in Pro users. Turn it off per project:

```toml squirrel.toml
[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](/cloud) - what cloud features add
- [Credits & Pricing](/cloud/credits) - pricing and spend controls
- [Site metadata](/cloud/site-metadata) - the site profile the summary draws on