User Guides
Step-by-step onboarding paths for developers, security teams, and legal & compliance.
Overview
FOSSA serves different roles on your team. Each guide is a sequenced path from setup to your first real outcome — with links to the docs you need along the way.
Brand new to FOSSA? Start with Get Started for a five-minute walkthrough, then return here for your role-specific path.
For Developers
Install the CLI, analyze your first project, and wire FOSSA into CI so every pull request is checked automatically — no manual scans.
For Security Teams
Detect CVEs across your dependencies, set severity policies that gate builds, and focus on vulnerabilities that are actually reachable in your code.
For Legal & Compliance
Surface license obligations per dependency, enforce policies that flag or block disallowed licenses, and produce audit-ready attribution reports automatically.