# sonarqube

Enables coding agents to operate SonarQube repositories via the sonar CLI: inspect quality gates, check issues, scan for secrets, and analyze code changes.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 381
- Author: DougTrajano
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/DougTrajano/pydantic-ai-skills/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/sonarqube/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/sonarqube

## What it does

This skill guides coding assistants to manage SonarQube and SonarQube Cloud projects using the local `sonar` CLI executable. The agent begins with preflight checks via `sonar auth status` and `sonar --version`. Project identification follows a strict order, reading `sonar-project.properties`, checking `.sonarlint/` bindings, or querying keys through `sonar list projects`.

It handles targeted inspections of modified files via `sonar analyze --file`, scans uncommitted Git changes, detects secrets, and checks dependencies. For diagnostics, it uses commands like `sonar list issues` and `sonar quality-gate status` with JSON formatting, falling back to authenticated REST calls with `sonar api get`.

The workflow strictly depends on a pre-installed `sonar` CLI binary in PATH. Agents cannot complete interactive browser logins or extract credentials from a broken system Keychain, requiring authentication tokens supplied via environment variables.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add DougTrajano/pydantic-ai-skills --skill sonarqube -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/sonarqube/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/sonarqube/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add DougTrajano/pydantic-ai-skills --skill sonarqube -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/sonarqube/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add DougTrajano/pydantic-ai-skills --skill sonarqube -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/sonarqube/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install DougTrajano/pydantic-ai-skills sonarqube
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/sonarqube/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add DougTrajano/pydantic-ai-skills --skill sonarqube -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/DougTrajano/pydantic-ai-skills --path .claude/skills/sonarqube
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/sonarqube/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add DougTrajano/pydantic-ai-skills --skill sonarqube -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/DougTrajano/pydantic-ai-skills/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/sonarqube/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- verify quality gate status for a project, branch, or pull request
- list and inspect static analysis issues using `sonar list issues`
- scan repository files and diffs for hardcoded secrets
- run incremental analysis on uncommitted Git changes
- call authenticated SonarQube REST API endpoints directly

## Example prompts
- Check the quality gate status for this project in SonarQube
- Analyze my uncommitted Git changes with `sonar analyze` and summarize the issues
- Scan the repository for leaked secrets using `sonar analyze secrets`

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: sonarqube
description: >-
  Operate SonarQube-enabled repositories through the SonarQube CLI (`sonar`): verify authentication, discover project
  keys, inspect project metadata, issues, measures, and quality gates, analyze changed code, scan secrets and dependency
  risks, call authenticated APIs, trigger remediation, configure integrations, and troubleshoot the CLI. Use whenever
  the user mentions SonarQube, SonarQube Cloud/SonarCloud, Sonar project details, quality gates, Sonar issues, `sonar`
  commands, agentic analysis, dependency risks, secrets scanning, or Sonar integrations, even if they do not explicitly
  name this skill. Do not use for generic static analysis unrelated to SonarQube.
compatibility: >-
  Requires the SonarQube CLI executable `sonar`; commands were verified against v1.7.0. Some operations require Git, a
  SonarQube Cloud plan or Server edition, or product-specific entitlements.
---

# SonarQube CLI

Use the installed `sonar` CLI as the source of truth for a SonarQube-enabled project. Prefer structured, read-only inspection before analysis or mutation, and make the final response state the project, branch or pull request, command scope, and result.

## Start with a preflight

Run these checks from the repository or worktree the user placed in scope:

```bash
command -v sonar
sonar --version
sonar auth status
```

If the task involves installation state, integrations, or a confusing auth error, also run `sonar system status --json`.

Treat `sonar auth status` as the authoritative credential check. Do not infer authentication merely from a saved config file. In a sandbox, container, SSH session, or background agent, OS Keychain access may fail even though authentication works in the user's interactive terminal. Explain that distinction and use the environment-variable route in [authentication.md](references/authentication.md) when the user has made credentials available; never retrieve, print, or persist a token yourself.

The CLI is evolving. If the installed version differs from the reference snapshot or a command rejects an option, run `sonar --help` and `sonar <command> --help`, then follow the installed help. Read [commands.md](references/commands.md) when selecting flags or when the user asks what the CLI supports.

## Resolve the project before querying it

Use the exact project key, not the display name. Resolve it in this order:

1. Use a project key explicitly supplied by the user.
2. Inspect `sonar.projectKey` in `sonar-project.properties` at the repository root.
3. Inspect SonarQube for IDE connected-mode binding under `.sonarlint/`, such as `.sonarlint/connectedMode.json`.
4. Let the CLI auto-detect when the command supports it.
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