Glossary
Documentation Index
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Admin | Manages the plan, billing, seats, and account settings. You’re an admin if you’re an admin of your GitHub organization or GitLab group, or if Sourcery itself lists you as an admin. Roles |
| Autocreate | Opens a Jira task automatically when a scan reports a security finding, gated by a severity threshold, per-type toggles, and a daily cap. Connect Jira |
| Deeplink | A URL that opens a supported editor straight on the Sourcery extension, used for one-click installs. Install the extension |
| Finding | A single security issue found by one of Sourcery’s scanners, with a severity score, a status, and membership in a group. Security findings |
| Group | Findings that look alike, shown as one row in the issues view. Turn grouping off to see every finding on its own. Security findings |
| Ignore | Permanently marks a finding as not needing action. Available for a single finding, a path prefix, or a rule. Triage |
| Member | Uses Sourcery (reviews, IDE, dashboard) but can’t change the plan, billing, or seats. Roles |
| Review rule | A check you write in plain language, scoped to file paths, that Sourcery applies on every review. Review rules |
| Reviewer’s guide | A review comment that walks through the change set file by file and tells human reviewers where to focus. Anatomy of a review |
| Risk profile | A per-repository setting (network exposure and data sensitivity) that Sourcery uses to weight finding severities for that repo. Repository risk profile |
| Scan | A security scan run over a repository’s default branch. Sourcery’s scanners run and report their findings to the dashboard. The scanners |
| Seat | One person’s access to Sourcery’s code reviews, the IDE extension, and the dashboard. Seats and team |
| Severity override | Adjusts a finding’s severity when the scored level isn’t how you’d rank it. Remove the override to restore the original score. Triage |
| Snooze | Sets a finding aside until a date you choose, with an optional reason. Future scans still detect the issue. Triage |
| Status check | The single “Sourcery review” check on the pull request’s head commit. It reports the review’s outcome. Anatomy of a review |
| Summary | A summary of the pull request’s purpose and risk, written into the description under a “Summary by Sourcery” heading. Anatomy of a review |