Plonix documentation

How to use Plonix: projects and sessions, the Bench, filters, scans, AI agents, the Market and detection rules, plus how it keeps your data and updates on your terms.

New to Plonix? The README covers installing it and the first steps. The plonix command explains itself too: run plonix --help.

• Projects, sessions and settingsA project is a folder. Plonix creates new ones in ~/Plonix/<name> unless you choose another place (on the Start screen, or plonix projects new <name> --location <dir>).
• The BenchThe Bench is where you work on one request at a time and where you run many at once. Each tab is an experiment. A tab has two panels:
• Named filters and filter packsNamed filters are shortcuts for searches you'd otherwise type over and over: "auth flows", "API docs", "hide analytics and trackers". Anyone can write them, share them as a…
• ScanningScanning in Plonix turns captured traffic and a fingerprinted application into discovered targets and reproducible findings. It is built for authorized research on applications…
• Agents and MCPPlonix lets an AI agent work with your live project: the traffic you captured, the map of the target, detected technologies, scope and findings. It does this through MCP, the…
• The Market and skillsThe Market is where Plonix gets everything modular, in one catalog:
• Detection rulesPlonix recognises the technologies behind every host you browse (servers, frameworks, CMSs, CDNs, WAFs, identity providers, exposed admin consoles) using declarative detection…
• ExtensionsPlonix is meant to be maintained by its community. Extensions are how people add what the core deliberately leaves out: new detections, filters, tabs and panels, tweaks to how…
• UpdatesPlonix.app never installs anything on its own. Every step that changes the app on disk is the user's choice, and closing a dialog always means "no".
• Privacy and usage statisticsPlonix keeps your work on your computer. Captured traffic, projects, findings, scope and settings are stored only in folders on your disk (~/.plonix and your project folders).…
• Crash reportsIf Plonix crashes, it writes a report on your computer and sends nothing. There is no crash-reporting service: you decide whether a report goes anywhere, and you see it first.
• Releasing PlonixThis page is for maintainers. It covers the one-time setup that lets CI sign and notarize Plonix.app, and how to cut a release.
• Setting up capture on any MacPlonix aims to take you from download to captured traffic in under a minute, whatever is installed on your Mac. This page covers the three things that can stand in the way and…