# Viewing and managing rules

- [SonarQube rules](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/2026.2/quality-standards-administration/managing-rules/rules.md): SonarQube evaluates your code against a set of rules to generate issues.
- [Software qualities](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/2026.2/quality-standards-administration/managing-rules/software-qualities.md): Software qualities refer to code that is secure, reliable, and maintainable.
- [Security-related rules](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/2026.2/quality-standards-administration/managing-rules/security-related-rules.md): The SonarQube quality model is applied to an automated code review and analysis based on four types of rules.
- [If Sonar updates a rule](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/2026.2/quality-standards-administration/managing-rules/rule-update.md): What might change regarding rules after a software update.
- [Adding tags to a rule](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/2026.2/quality-standards-administration/managing-rules/adding-tags-to-rule.md): Tags are a way to categorize rules and issues.
- [Built-in rule tags](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/2026.2/quality-standards-administration/managing-rules/built-in-rule-tags.md): Tags are a way to categorize rules and issues. Some built-in tags are language-specific, but many more appear across languages.
- [Rules for AI CodeFix](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/2026.2/quality-standards-administration/managing-rules/rules-for-ai-codefix.md): AI CodeFix uses rules selected from a set of languages.


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