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+name: codeql
+
+# Default to 'contents: read', which grants actions to read commits.
+#
+# If any permission is set, any permission not included in the list is
+# implicitly set to "none".
+#
+# see https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#permissions
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - 'master'
+      - '[0-9]+.[0-9]+'
+    tags:
+      - 'v*'
+  pull_request:
+    # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
+    branches: ["master"]
+  schedule:
+    #        ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
+    #        │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
+    #        │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
+    #        │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
+    #        │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday)
+    #        │ │ │ │ │
+    #        │ │ │ │ │
+    #        │ │ │ │ │
+    #        * * * * *
+    - cron: '0 9 * * 4'
+
+jobs:
+  codeql:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+    permissions:
+      actions: read
+      contents: read
+      security-events: write
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 2
+      # CodeQL 2.16.4's auto-build added support for multi-module repositories,
+      # and is trying to be smart by searching for modules in every directory,
+      # including vendor directories. If no module is found, it's creating one
+      # which is ... not what we want, so let's give it a "go.mod".
+      # see: https://github.com/docker/cli/pull/4944#issuecomment-2002034698
+      - name: Create go.mod
+        run: |
+          ln -s vendor.mod go.mod
+          ln -s vendor.sum go.sum
+      - name: Update Go
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version: 1.22.7
+      - name: Initialize CodeQL
+        uses: github/codeql-action/init@v3
+        with:
+          languages: go
+      - name: Autobuild
+        uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v3
+      - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v3
+        with:
+          category: "/language:go"