Abstract Our manuscript aims to analysis the viability and stability of
anisotropic stellar objects in the modified symmetric teleparallel
gravity. A particular model of this extended theory is considered to
formulate explicit field equations which govern the interaction
between matter and geometry. The configuration of static spherical
symmetric structures is examined through the Finch-Skea solution.
However, the values of unknown constants in the metric potentials
are evaluated by the Darmois junction conditions. For the viability
of proposed stellar objects, the physical parameters including
density, pressure, anisotropy, mass, energy constraints, compactness
function and redshift are analyzed. Furthermore, stability of the
proposed stellar objects is investigated by causality condition,
Herrera cracking approach and adiabatic index. Our findings indicate
that the proposed stellar objects are viable as well as stable in
the presence of correction terms.