Fit check

Run a fit check when you know which page you need but have not chosen how to work with it:

analog assess https://example.com/catalog

The command fetches the page locally, then performs no extraction and makes no backend call. It does not require sign-in.

What it reports

• Markdown size — an approximate token count for reading the full rendered page as markdown.
• Task guidance — whether the page is better suited to structured records or a direct read, with separate advice for data work, one-off questions, and long-form prose.
• Declared navigation — top-level destinations the page identifies in its own navigation.
• Platform data feeds — when a recognized platform offers a feed, whether that feed responded and the item count it reported at the time of the check. This verifies that the feed exists; it does not claim the feed is authoritative.
• Sitemaps — sitemap URLs listed by the site’s robots.txt. The sitemap files themselves are not fetched.
• Pagination — whether the current URL appears to be one page of a larger collection, and how far its own links reach.

Use --no-probe to skip the feed and sitemap checks.

Choose the path that matches the task

• Extract when you need to filter, compare, export, or revisit the page’s records.
• Read the markdown directly when the page is primarily prose or you need one answer from one page.
• For a row-and-column comparison, use the extraction only when the result names both axes and reports no withheld comparison fields.
• Follow the page’s navigation, sitemap, or verified feed when the task calls for a different page or a broader collection.

The fit check is advice, not a gate. In its default auto mode, analog get runs the same check, attaches the guidance to the result, and still performs the extraction.