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Environment Variables and the Vibgrate CLI

Understand how environment-level configuration interacts with the Vibgrate CLI, including offline mode, proxy settings, and credentials, and how environment context flows into scans and uploads.

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Using Environment Variables with the CLI

Learn where environment variables fit in a Vibgrate workflow, especially for supplying secrets like a DSN to vg push in CI without committing them.

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Configuration Precedence: Flags, Config, and Environment

Understand how command-line flags, the committed configuration file, and environment-provided values combine, so you can predict exactly what a scan will do.

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Reading and Understanding Vibgrate SBOM Output

Open a Vibgrate-generated CycloneDX or SPDX file and understand its structure — components, versions, licenses, and identifiers — so you can review and use it with confidence.

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SBOM Formats Supported by Vibgrate CLI

Vibgrate CLI exports CycloneDX and SPDX SBOMs and can generate OpenVEX documents. Learn what each format is for and how to choose the right one for your use case.

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Pick Path Endpoints with --pick-a and --pick-b

Learn how to choose the two endpoints for vg path using --pick-a and --pick-b so you trace the connection between exactly the nodes you mean.

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Control the Call Tree with --callers and --depth

Flip vg tree to show callers instead of callees with --callers, and control how deep it traverses with --depth, to focus the call tree on exactly what you need.

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Troubleshooting the MCP Server

Common issues when running Vibgrate AI Context (vg serve) and how to fix them — from clients not seeing tools to stale context, slow first runs, and offline library gaps.

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Enabling and Focusing Scanners for a Scan

Learn how to control which scanners run and narrow a scan to what you care about, why focusing improves signal and speed, and how to keep configuration consistent across your team and CI.

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Understanding Scanner Output Across Formats

Understand how scanner results are presented — text, JSON, SARIF, and Markdown — why each format suits a different audience, and how to choose the right one for humans, machines, and CI.

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Global Flags Reference for the Vibgrate CLI

A reference for the flags that apply across Vibgrate CLI commands, including path selection, output control, and quiet mode. Learn what each common flag does and when to reach for it.

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Vibgrate Config File: A Deep Reference

A detailed reference for the Vibgrate configuration file created by vg init. Learn where config lives, what it controls, and how scanner toggles, thresholds, and exclusions shape every scan.

Reading Vibgrate JSON Output

Learn how to produce and consume JSON output from the Vibgrate CLI for scripting and dashboards. Understand how JSON relates to the other output formats and how to write it to a file.

SARIF Output Reference for the Vibgrate CLI

Learn how to emit SARIF from Vibgrate scans and feed it into code-scanning surfaces such as GitHub code scanning. Understand when SARIF is the right format and how to write it to a file.

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Supported Manifests by Ecosystem

A reference for the language ecosystems Vibgrate scans for upgrade drift, including Node.js, .NET, Python, Java, Go, Rust, PHP, and Ruby. Learn how manifests and lockfiles drive results.

Vibgrate CLI Glossary

Plain-language definitions for the terms you will meet using the Vibgrate CLI, including DriftScore, baseline, code map, Vibgrate AI Context, and SBOM. A quick reference for new and returning users.

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Vibgrate CLI Command Cheat-Sheet

A compact, copy-friendly list of every Vibgrate CLI command grouped by purpose: scanning, baselines and reports, uploads, and the Vibgrate Graph code-map commands. Real commands only.

Proxy and Offline Configuration for the Vibgrate CLI

Configure the Vibgrate CLI for proxied networks and air-gapped environments. Learn how offline mode works, how to bypass caches, and how local code-map queries stay fully offline after first use.

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Troubleshooting Vibgrate CLI Installation

Fix common problems installing or running the Vibgrate CLI, including the vg binary not being found, version mismatches, and trying the CLI without installing. Practical, command-first guidance.

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Troubleshooting Vibgrate Login and Authentication

Resolve authentication problems with the Vibgrate CLI, from the browser login flow to DSN tokens for CI. Learn how to re-authenticate, clear stale credentials, and authenticate non-interactively.

Troubleshooting Slow Vibgrate Scans

Speed up slow Vibgrate scans with concurrency tuning, exclusions, scoping, and cache control. Learn which knobs to turn first on large or monorepo codebases.

Troubleshooting Vibgrate Failures in CI

Understand why a Vibgrate step fails in CI and how to fix it, separating intentional drift-gate failures from real errors. Learn to read exit codes, gates, and authentication problems.

Troubleshooting: No Projects Detected

Fix the case where a Vibgrate scan finds no projects. Learn how detection works, how exclusions and working directory affect it, and how to confirm the CLI is scanning the right tree.

Troubleshooting the Code-Map Build

Fix problems building or querying the Vibgrate code map. Learn how to check freshness, rebuild incrementally, precompute the semantic index, and confirm queries work offline.

Vibgrate CLI Error Message Reference

A guide to the categories of problems the Vibgrate CLI reports and how to act on each, from command not found and detection issues to gate failures and upload errors. Includes how to read exit codes.