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Three steps to your health report

Paste your URLs, let AI analyze the gap between code and docs, and get actionable results.

Step 01

Paste your URLs

Drop in your GitHub or GitLab repo link and your documentation URL. We support any public docs site — ReadMe, GitBook, Notion, custom domains, anything.

Step 02

AI analyzes the gap

We crawl your recent commits and docs pages, then use AI to identify where code reality and documentation have diverged. No code is stored.

Step 03

Get your report

Receive a full health report: page-by-page status, severity ratings, and specific recommendations. See exactly what's In Sync, Drifting, or Out of Sync.

Sample report

Here's what you'll discover

A real audit from a popular open-source project. Names changed to protect the guilty.

Docs Health Audit — acme/payments-api
Drifting
Overall Health Score
64/100
Needs attention — 23 pages drifting
Total Pages
70
Last Commit
2h ago
Docs Updated
11 days
Critical Issues
6
/api/v2/webhooks
CriticalEndpoint removed in v2.4
/api/v2/payments/refund
CriticalNew required param missing
/guides/authentication
HighOAuth flow updated
/guides/rate-limiting
MediumNew tier limits
/api/v2/customers
/guides/quickstart
+ 64 more pages in full report

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12,847
Free audits completed
2.4M
Docs pages analyzed
73%
Avg drift found
14 min
Avg time to first fix

Most teams discover their docs are further out of sync than they think. The average audit finds drift on 73% of pages.

FAQ

Common questions

What do you need access to?

Nothing sensitive. We only need the public URL of your repository and docs site. For public repos, we read recent commit history and file changes. For docs, we crawl the publicly accessible pages. No tokens, no OAuth, no code access required.

Is my code stored or shared?

Never. We process commit diffs in memory to understand what changed semantically, then immediately discard them. We never store raw code, diffs, or file contents. Only the audit results (page status, drift scores, recommendations) are kept.

How long does the audit take?

Most audits complete in under 2 minutes. Larger repos with extensive documentation may take up to 5 minutes. If you provide your email, we'll send you the results link when it's ready.

What does 'In Sync', 'Drifting', and 'Out of Sync' mean?

In Sync means the docs accurately reflect the current codebase. Drifting means recent code changes may have made parts of the docs inaccurate or incomplete. Out of Sync means there are clear discrepancies — features, APIs, or workflows described in docs that no longer match the code.

Do I need an account to run an audit?

No. The free audit is completely standalone — no sign-up, no login, no credit card. If you want continuous monitoring (not just a one-time snapshot), that's where DocsCanary's paid plans come in.

What if my repo is private?

The free audit works best with public repos. For private repos, you'll need to connect via DocsCanary's GitHub/GitLab integration with a free trial. This gives us read-only access to commit metadata only — still no code storage.

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