The ignore list in Clayton is a feature that allows teams to exclude specific files or directories. It’s useful when there are areas of the codebase, like autogenerated files, third-party libraries, or legacy code, that you know you don’t want flagged by Clayton’s rules.
By adding items to the ignore list, you can:
Reduce noise in scan results
Focus attention on the parts of the codebase you actively maintain
Improve scan performance for large projects
This helps tailor Clayton's checks to your team’s actual workflow and priorities, keeping the feedback relevant and actionable.
Adding to the ignore list
Ignore lists can set up ignore lists on individual repositories or Salesforce Orgs.
The list of ignored files can be managed by going to your project > Settings > Ignore list.
From here you can use regular expressions to match specific files names or parth that you want the scan to ignore.
Wildcards
You can use wildcards to exclude entire folders or files that follow specific naming patterns from being scanned by Clayton. This helps you tailor scans to focus only on what matters most.
Examples:
src/ProjectName/classRoot.*— Ignores all files starting withclassRootin this foldersrc/ProjectName/lib1/— Ignores everything inside thelib1directorysrc/ProjectName/folder1/*.xml— Ignores all.xmlfiles infolder1*file_to_exclude.*— Ignores any file that includesfile_to_excludein its name, regardless of extension or path