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# Introduction

Your introduction to understanding how to use quality profiles in SonarQube Cloud.

Quality profiles are a key part of your organization configuration. A quality profile defines the set of coding rules to be applied during analysis.

Quality profiles come in two types:

* You can apply general profiles to all or multiple languages at once. You define them by selecting security standards and setting a rule activation threshold for each software quality.
* You can apply language-specific profiles to a single language. You define them rule by rule.

See [Understanding quality profiles](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/understanding-quality-profiles.md#profile-types) for more information.

Each project has a single quality profile activated, for each language, at any given time. By default, the built-in **Sonar way core** quality profile is activated for every language. However, a different one can be chosen by a project administrator from among those available within the organization. The quality profiles available in your organization can be defined at the organization level by an organization administrator.

The *Sonar agentic AI* is a built-in quality profile for agent centric development. It activates the security and reliability rules most relevant to AI-generated code, while reducing noise from maintainability rules that are less critical in agentic workflows. See [Quality profiles for agentic AI](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/ai-code-assurance/quality-profiles-for-agentic-ai.md) for more information.

The built-in Sonar way quality profiles are provided in your organization: **Sonar way core**, **Sonar way extended**, and **Sonar way comprehensive**. See [Built-in quality profiles](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/built-in-quality-profiles.md) for details on each. From the Team plan, as a quality profile administrator, you can create your own custom general or language-specific quality profiles to meet your coding analysis needs.

This section explains the quality profile concept in the Sonar solution, how to retrieve and view quality profiles and, for quality profile administrators, how to manage their custom quality profiles.

See:

* [Built-in quality profiles](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/built-in-quality-profiles.md)
* [Understanding quality profiles](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/understanding-quality-profiles.md)
* [Viewing quality profiles](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/viewing-quality-profiles.md)
* [Creating a quality profile](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/creating-a-quality-profile.md)
* [Editing a quality profile](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/editing-a-custom-quality-profile.md)
* [Associating with projects](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/associating-a-quality-profile-with-projects.md)
* [Changing default quality profile](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/changing-default-quality-profile.md)
* [Maintaining quality profiles](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/maintaining-your-custom-quality-profiles.md)
* [Granting permissions to users](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/managing-quality-profiles/authorizing-other-users-to-manage-quality-profile.md)
* [Quality profiles for agentic AI](/sonarqube-cloud/standards/ai-code-assurance/quality-profiles-for-agentic-ai.md)


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