URL: /dashboard/audit-settings

---
title: "Audit Settings"
description: "Choose which rules run for your organization's cloud audits and toggle external link checking"
icon: "sliders-horizontal"
---

Cloud audits don't read your local `squirrel.toml`, so the **Settings → Audit** page in the dashboard is where you control which rules run in the cloud for everyone in your organization.

Open it at **Dashboard → your org → Settings → Audit**. Owners and admins can edit; other members see a read-only view.

## Rule selection

Every audit rule is **on by default**. The page lists all rules grouped by category (sorted by priority). For each rule you can:

- Toggle it on or off individually.
- Toggle a whole category with the category master switch (it shows a mixed state when only some rules in the category are on).
- **Enable all** / **Disable all** across every category.
- Search by rule name or id to jump to a specific rule.

The header shows how many rules are enabled out of the total. Changes are staged locally — click **Save** to apply them.

This setting is **per organization**: it applies to all cloud audits the org runs (dashboard-triggered and scheduled). It does **not** affect CLI audits, which keep using your local config.

<Note>
  The model is "disable-based": the dashboard stores the set of rules you turned
  off (as patterns like `a11y/*` or `core/meta-title`). A new rule added in a
  later release is enabled by default — and stays disabled automatically if you'd
  turned off its whole category.
</Note>

## Credit-backed rules

Some rules are powered by [cloud services](/cloud/rules) and spend credits when they run. These are marked with a credit badge showing the per-unit cost (for example `1 cr/page`). Turning them off is also a way to cap what an audit can spend. See [Credits](/cloud/credits) for the full pricing.

## External link checking

A separate card toggles **external link checking** for cloud audits. When on, audits verify that outbound links resolve, using the [dead-links service](/rules/links/dead-links). It's **off by default** because it's credit-gated (1 credit per 100 URLs). The card links to your org's credit usage.

## What runs where

| Surface | Honors org audit settings? |
|---------|----------------------------|
| Dashboard cloud audits | Yes |
| Scheduled cloud audits | Yes |
| CLI audits (`squirrel audit`) | No — uses your local `squirrel.toml` |

Per-rule option tuning (thresholds and the like) and per-website overrides aren't configurable here yet — they're tracked as follow-ups.