Quality Clouds Livecheck for Salesforce – VS Code Extension

Governed, real-time code validation for Salesforce development

The Quality Clouds extension brings enterprise-grade governance, real-time validation, and AI-safe guardrails to every developer, from individual builders to large enterprise teams, directly inside Visual Studio Code. It helps Salesforce developers build faster, safer, and fully compliant solutions, whether code is written manually or generated by an AI assistant.

The extension includes:

• LivecheckAI (MCP) – Real-time validation of AI-generated code directly within your AI assistant
• Core Livecheck – Full code & metadata analysis for Salesforce development
• Quality Center – Centralized dashboard with quality metrics, Livecheck results, Peer Review management and QC Copilot
• Quality Gates – Automated governance enforcement, preventing new technical debt in your Salesforce development
• QC Copilot – AI-powered, real-time code guidance that helps developers fix issues instantly and follow enterprise best practices
• Peer Review – Controlled write-off workflow for managing exceptions and enforcing governance

📘 Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. LivecheckAI (MCP)
3. Core Livecheck
4. Quality Center
5. Quality Gates
6. QC Copilot
7. Peer Review
8. Supported Salesforce Components
9. Learn More
10. User Demo

🧭 Overview

Quality Clouds helps enterprises and developers govern and scale Salesforce with automated analysis, continuous validation, and AI-powered insights.

This VS Code extension enables:

• Continuous validation of Apex, LWC, metadata, and configuration
• Inline detection of issues and anti-patterns
• Real-time best-practice enforcement
• AI-safe governance
• Rule-based validation aligned with your organization's standards

Developers gain fast feedback, higher code quality, and consistent adherence to enterprise governance.

🚀 LivecheckAI (MCP)

Real-time validation of AI-generated code

LivecheckAI functionality integrates directly with your AI assistant using Quality Clouds MCP, ensuring that every AI-generated suggestion respects:

• Salesforce platform limits
• Enterprise development standards
• Metadata & configuration rules
• Security and compliance constraints
• Naming conventions & architecture guidelines
• Your org-specific governance model

All best-practice rules and governance policies are fully customizable through the Quality Clouds Admin Portal, allowing each organization (or individual developer) to tailor validations to their specific needs.

If you want to learn more, read the article on LivecheckAI via MCP.

To see it in action, jump to the User demo section at the end of this README.

Learn more about Quality Clouds LivecheckAI (via MCP) for Salesforce

🔌 Installation & Configuration (LivecheckAI via MCP)

1. Install the extension: Livecheck Quality for Salesforce
2. • New users: Sign up at https://id.qualityclouds.com/sign-up and complete the account activation steps
   • Existing customers: Contact your Quality Clouds administrator to enable your access
3. Open the Quality Clouds Settings panel in VS Code (bottom-left corner)
4. Authenticate with your QC credentials
5. LivecheckAI will activate automatically once your account is enabled
6. For a full onboarding guide, follow this article: LivecheckAI for Salesforce via MCP

⭐ Core Livecheck

Full Salesforce code & metadata analysis

Core Livecheck funcionality validates in real time any code you write or already have, regardless of whether it was manually written or generated by AI.

It provides:

• Manual Livechecks on any file
• Project-wide validation
• Inline issue markers
• +900 best practices to validate your code
• Severity-based filtering (High, Medium, Low, Warnings)
• Embedded access to Quality Gates, Quality Center, QC Copilot & Peer Review

🔌 Installation & Configuration (Core Livecheck)

1. Install the extension
2. • New developers or new customers: request a license or free trial at sales@qualityclouds.com
   • Existing customers: contact your QC administrator to enable your license
3. Authenticate in the Quality Clouds Settings panel in VS Code
4. Core Livecheck will activate automatically once licensed
5. For full Onboarding guide, follow this article: Livecheck in Visual Studio Code

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🟦 Quality Center

Centralized dashboards & insights

Quality Center provides a unified dashboard inside VS Code to help developers monitor, improve, and govern their work.

It includes:

• Real-time Livecheck results
• Quality trends & metrics
• Time-to-fix insights
• Org-wide and project-level best practices
• Developer activity & performance tracking
• Integrated Peer Review status and governance view

Quality Center becomes your single hub for understanding and improving code quality.

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🟥 Quality Gates

Automated governance enforcement

Quality Gates ensure that only compliant, high-quality changes progress through your development pipeline.

They provide:

• Blocker thresholds
• Minimum quality & coverage requirements
• Governance rules defined by enterprise standards
• Automatic pass/fail validation before promotion
• Prevention of new technical debt entering your org

Quality Gates seamlessly integrate governance into day-to-day development.

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🤖 QC Copilot

AI-guided refactoring & safe recommendations

QC Copilot is an enterprise-ready AI assistant that enhances developer productivity while staying fully governed.

It offers:

• Real-time guided fixes for detected issues
• AI-driven refactoring aligned with QC best practices
• Automatic suggestions that avoid anti-patterns
• Learning based on your organization's rule models
• Performance, security, metadata & naming-aware insights

QC Copilot speeds up development without compromising quality or compliance.

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👥 Peer Review

Governed write-off & exception management

Peer Review provides a structured and controlled workflow for managing exceptions (write-offs) when issues cannot be resolved immediately.

It includes:

• Write-off requests for Livecheck-detected issues
• Approval or rejection by designated reviewers
• Kanban-style workflow (“To Do”, “In Progress”, “Done”)
• Integration with Quality Gates for non-compliant Update Sets
• Full governance traceability for each exception

Peer Review ensures quality and compliance even when justified exceptions are necessary.

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💻 Supported Salesforce Components

• Apex Classes
• Apex Triggers
• Lightning Web Components
• Visualforce Pages
• Visualforce Components
• Flows & Reports
• Metadata Files (Profiles, Permission Sets, Custom Objects, ...)

📚 Learn More

🔗 Documentation

🔗 Website

🔗 For Support contact us at: Help@qualityclouds.com

🎬 User Demo

Below you will find a quick visual walkthrough of the extension in action.

Core Livecheck Funcionality

LivecheckAI Funcionality