VAC and Cheatengine

This is probably the wrong section if so sorry but I was just wondering if just using cheat engine to find addresses without actually changing anything in memory will result in being flagged by VAC?

Reading memory is fine just don't write memory with cheat engine. Use reclass for that.

Is there a thread on bypassing VAC / How VAC works? If I wrote up a console application to edit an address would it be detected?