The Vibe Quality Model

From ad-hoc to professional vibe coding.

The Vibe Quality Model (VQM) helps teams and individual developers produce professional software with AI agents, of a quality their employers and customers can trust. Developers keep working much as they do now. The model instructs the AI to follow professional practice, and to keep the records that show it did.

Coming in November 2026: the full reference for the model, a free self-assessment for your repository, and the book The Vibe Quality Model.

UnguidedLevel 1 · ad-hoc

Code is prompted, accepted and shipped when it runs.

GuardedLevel 2 · professional basics

Requirements, tests, review, security scans and records on every change.

StandardizedLevel 3 · one standard

One way of working across projects, enforced and audited.

MeasuredLevel 4 · quality in numbers

Defects, security and delivery tracked against limits.

Self-ImprovingLevel 5 · learns from mistakes

Every escaped defect becomes a rule the system enforces.