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# Introduction

Your introduction to understanding how to use quality gates in SonarQube Server 2026.5.

Quality gates enforce a quality policy for the results of code review and analysis in your organization by answering one question: is my project ready for release?

Two built-in quality gates are provided: *Sonar way* which is used by default as the default quality gate, and *Sonar way for agentic AI* which is recommended for agent centric development.

With the Administer Quality Gates permission, you can create your own quality gates, called custom quality gates.

**In this section:**

* [Understanding quality gates](/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/introduction-to-quality-gates.md)
* [Viewing a quality gate](/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/viewing-quality-gate.md)
* [Managing custom quality gates](/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/managing-custom-quality-gates.md)
* [Changing instance's default quality gate](/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/changing-default-quality-gate.md)
* [Associating a quality gate with projects](/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/managing-quality-gates/associating-projects-with-quality-gate.md)
* [Quality gate for agentic AI](/sonarqube-server/quality-standards-administration/ai-code-assurance/quality-gate-for-agentic-ai.md)


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