Track organization code quality trends

GAAug 19, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

The organization-level Code Quality dashboard now includes a Trends tab that shows how code quality has changed across your repositories over time. Instead of a point-in-time snapshot, you can see whether open findings are trending up or down and which repositories are driving the change.

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