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 A comprehensive network scanning and infrastructure monitoring platform with web interface and CLI scanner. SneakyScanner uses masscan for fast port discovery, nmap for service detection, sslyze for SSL/TLS analysis, and Playwright for webpage screenshots to perform comprehensive infrastructure audits.
 
 **Primary Interface**: Web Application (Flask-based GUI)
-**Alternative**: Standalone CLI Scanner (for testing and CI/CD)
+**Scripting/Automation**: REST API (see [API Reference](docs/API_REFERENCE.md))
 
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ A comprehensive network scanning and infrastructure monitoring platform with web
 - 🌐 **Web Dashboard** - Modern web UI for scan management, scheduling, and historical analysis
 - 📊 **Database Storage** - SQLite-based scan history with trend analysis and comparison
 - ⏰ **Scheduled Scans** - Cron-based automated scanning with APScheduler
-- 🔧 **Config Creator** - CIDR-to-YAML configuration builder for quick setup
+- 🔧 **Config Creator** - Web-based target configuration builder for quick setup
 - 🔍 **Network Discovery** - Fast port scanning with masscan (all 65535 ports, TCP/UDP)
 - 🎯 **Service Detection** - Nmap-based service enumeration with version detection
 - 🔒 **SSL/TLS Analysis** - Certificate extraction, TLS version testing, cipher suite analysis
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ A comprehensive network scanning and infrastructure monitoring platform with web
 
 ## Quick Start
 
-### Web Application (Recommended)
+### Web Application
 
 **Easy Setup (One Command):**
 
@@ -69,28 +69,13 @@ docker compose up --build -d
 
 **See [Deployment Guide](docs/DEPLOYMENT.md) for detailed setup instructions.**
 
-### CLI Scanner (Standalone)
-
-For quick one-off scans without the web interface:
-
-```bash
-# Build and run
-docker compose -f docker-compose-standalone.yml build
-docker compose -f docker-compose-standalone.yml up
-
-# Results saved to ./output/
-```
-
-**See [CLI Scanning Guide](docs/CLI_SCANNING.md) for detailed usage.**
-
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 ## Documentation
 
 ### User Guides
 - **[Deployment Guide](docs/DEPLOYMENT.md)** - Installation, configuration, and production deployment
-- **[CLI Scanning Guide](docs/CLI_SCANNING.md)** - Standalone scanner usage, configuration, and output formats
-- **[API Reference](docs/API_REFERENCE.md)** - Complete REST API documentation
+- **[API Reference](docs/API_REFERENCE.md)** - Complete REST API documentation for scripting and automation
 
 ### Developer Resources
 - **[Roadmap](docs/ROADMAP.md)** - Project roadmap, architecture, and planned features
@@ -107,7 +92,7 @@ docker compose -f docker-compose-standalone.yml up
 - ✅ **Phase 1**: Database schema, SQLAlchemy models, settings system
 - ✅ **Phase 2**: REST API, background jobs, authentication, web UI
 - ✅ **Phase 3**: Dashboard, scheduling, trend charts
-- ✅ **Phase 4**: Config creator, YAML editor, config management UI
+- ✅ **Phase 4**: Config creator, target editor, config management UI
 - ✅ **Phase 5**: Webhooks & alerting, notification templates, alert rules
 
 ### Next Up: Phase 6 - CLI as API Client
@@ -188,7 +173,7 @@ See [Deployment Guide](docs/DEPLOYMENT.md) for production security checklist.
 
 ## Contributing
 
-This is a personal/small team project. For bugs or feature requests:
+This is a personal project. For bugs or feature requests:
 
 1. Check existing issues
 2. Create detailed bug reports with reproduction steps
@@ -206,7 +191,6 @@ MIT License - See LICENSE file for details
 
 **Documentation**:
 - [Deployment Guide](docs/DEPLOYMENT.md)
-- [CLI Scanning Guide](docs/CLI_SCANNING.md)
 - [API Reference](docs/API_REFERENCE.md)
 - [Roadmap](docs/ROADMAP.md)
 
@@ -214,5 +198,5 @@ MIT License - See LICENSE file for details
 
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-**Version**: Phase 5 Complete
+**Version**: 1.0.0-beta
 **Last Updated**: 2025-11-19