{"meta":{"title":"Interpreting the code quality results for your repository","intro":"Use Code Quality results to assess the maintainability and reliability of your codebase, so your teams can focus remediation where it matters most.","product":"Security and code quality","breadcrumbs":[{"href":"/en/code-security","title":"Security and code quality"},{"href":"/en/code-security/how-tos","title":"How-tos"},{"href":"/en/code-security/how-tos/maintain-quality-code","title":"Maintain quality code"},{"href":"/en/code-security/how-tos/maintain-quality-code/interpret-results","title":"Interpret results"}],"documentType":"article"},"body":"# Interpreting the code quality results for your repository\n\nUse Code Quality results to assess the maintainability and reliability of your codebase, so your teams can focus remediation where it matters most.\n\n## Prerequisites\n\n* Code Quality is enabled, see [Enabling GitHub Code Quality](/en/code-security/how-tos/maintain-quality-code/enable-code-quality?utm_campaign=code-quality-ga-july-2026\\&utm_medium=docs\\&utm_source=docs-interpret-results-enable-cq).\n\n## Viewing the full backlog of code quality results\n\n1. Navigate to the ** Security and quality** tab of your repository.\n2. Click to expand ** Code quality**, then click **Standard findings**.\n\nAlternatively, if you want to view AI-powered findings for the most recently changed files, see [Fixing code quality findings in recently merged files](/en/code-security/how-tos/maintain-quality-code/fix-findings-in-recent-merges).\n\n## Exploring the backlog for your repository\n\nThe \"Standard findings\" dashboard shows all the results found by CodeQL analysis on the default branch of your repository. This view helps you visualize the full backlog of quality results and prioritize work to fix specific types of problems.\n\nThe overview, at the top of the page, summarizes the maintainability and reliability of the codebase.\n\n![Screenshot of the \"Standard findings\" dashboard for code quality results. The summary is outlined in dark orange.](/assets/images/help/code-quality/all-findings-overview-repo.png)\n\nUnderneath the overview, the full list of results is shown with a header with filters that you can use to focus on a specific set of findings. The results are:\n\n* Grouped by the rule that detected each finding\n* Within each rule, ordered by file path alphabetically\n\nExplore the results by expanding a rule to list the affected files and clicking on the name of a rule to see full details of the findings.\n\n![Screenshot of the Rules table on the \"Standard findings\" dashboard for code quality. The \"Overwritten property\" rule name is outlined in dark orange.](/assets/images/help/code-quality/all-findings-rules-repo.png)\n\n## Interpreting scores and metrics\n\nCode quality results should always be interpreted in the context of your repository. For example:\n\n* Small repositories, or repositories with only a small amount of code written in supported languages, tend to have few results and good scores.\n* Repositories with a lot of generated code may have many maintenance results, lowering the score for maintainability. This is not a problem if the source code itself is maintainable.\n* Large repositories with a lot of code in a fully supported language often have many results even if the majority of the code has good maintainability and reliability standards.\n\nTo learn more about the metrics and how the scores are calculated, see [Metrics and scores reference](/en/code-security/reference/code-quality/metrics-and-ratings)."}