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What does Code Sight do?
The Synopsys Code Sight plug-in helps you find quality and security issues in your source code. It helps you fix these issues, and increases your confidence that you are checking in clean code.

What does Code Sight do?
The Synopsys Code Sight plug-in helps you find quality and security issues in your source code. It helps you fix these issues, and increases your confidence that you are checking in clean code.
- Information that Code Sight displays
  Code Sight displays views that show details about the issue that is currently highlighted. These views also help you navigate the issues that Code Sight finds.
- How do I use Code Sight in Eclipse and Visual Studio?
  In Eclipse or Visual Studio, by default Code Sight runs automatically: Whenever you open a source file or save it, Code Sight runs a scan.
- How do I use Code Sight in JetBrains IDEs (including IntelliJ) and VS Code?
  In JetBrains IDEs and in VS Code, Code Sight supports two static scanning modes: auto-scan and manual scan.
- Code Sight preferences
  Code Sight has some preference settings to help you manage the plug-in’s behavior.
- Scan engines that Code Sight can run
  Code Sight is an interface to certain Synopsys software integrity tools, which are also known as scan engines. The Code Sight controls provide a convenient way to manage code scans, but the work of scanning itself is done by other Synopsys products.
- Finding your way: Code Sight controls in the various development environments
  The interface of each IDE presents the Code Sight controls in its own way.
- Code Sight terms

What does Code Sight do?

The Synopsys Code Sight plug-in helps you find quality and security issues in your source code. It helps you fix these issues, and increases your confidence that you are checking in clean code.

Code Sight launches one or more Synopsys® software analysis engines to scan your source code and detect issues.

Code Sight runs within a number of IDE applications. It displays the information it finds in its own views, which appear within the IDE interface.

Here are quick, interactive tours of the Code Sight plug-in:

Both software composition analysis (SCA) and static analysis (SAST) scanning in the Code Sight Standard Edition for VS Code and IntelliJ:

Software composition analysis (SCA) scanning:

Static analysis (SAST) scanning: