Governance · June 2026
From Hardcoded to Live: Quality Calibration at Runtime.
Rewrite quality thresholds used to live inside the extension. Any calibration change meant a new release, a fresh security review, and another change management cycle. Live Quality Tuning moves calibration to QRA's servers. When QRA tunes a threshold or refines how suggestions surface, the new behavior is available the next time the extension loads. No install required.
Connect with QRANote: This is a QRAcloud-side release and will be automatically updated in your QRAcloud environment.
The Old Cycle: Every Calibration Change Meant a Release.
Rewrite quality thresholds were baked into the client build. The thresholds determined when suggestions surfaced, how aggressively ReqWriter flagged issues, and where rewrite assistance was available. Adjusting any of it required shipping a new version of the extension.
For QRA, that meant the gap between identifying a calibration improvement and getting it to customers was measured in release cycles, not days. For customers, every calibration change carried the same cost as a major feature release: security review, IT approval, change management, rollout coordination. In regulated environments, the overhead of getting a small tuning adjustment into a production workflow often outweighed the benefit of the adjustment itself.
How Live Quality Tuning Works.
Quality thresholds and suggestion behavior now live on QRA's servers. The extension reads them at runtime each time it starts. When QRA improves a threshold based on observed customer usage, the new behavior is available immediately to every team running ReqWriter.
The extension itself does not change. The behavior does. Calibration is now separate from release.
Why This Matters for Regulated Teams.
In regulated programs, releases are defensible events. They mean documentation, change control, traceability, and audit posture. Every release demands engineering effort beyond the code itself.
Live Quality Tuning separates that overhead from the work it was actually attached to. Stable release cadence stays in place for the things that genuinely need it: new features, integration work, infrastructure changes. Quality tuning improves continuously in the background, without forcing the release apparatus to run for what amounts to a configuration adjustment.
The result is faster improvements with none of the release-cycle cost.
The Governance Foundation.
Live Quality Tuning is the architectural foundation for governance-native ReqWriter behavior. With calibration moved to the server side, the next layer becomes possible: organization-level calibration tuned to your team's engineering standards, your program's compliance environment, and your governance policies.
That work is in active development. Live Quality Tuning is what makes it possible.
See Live Quality Tuning in Action.
Walk through how Live Quality Tuning fits into your team's release governance, IT change management, and compliance posture.