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@mbg mbg commented Feb 11, 2026

First stab at adding this new analysis kind.

Best reviewed commit-by-commit.

Risk assessment

For internal use only. Please select the risk level of this change:

  • High risk: Changes are not fully under feature flags, have limited visibility and/or cannot be tested outside of production.

Which use cases does this change impact?

Workflow types:

  • Advanced setup - Impacts users who have custom CodeQL workflows.
  • Managed - Impacts users with dynamic workflows (Default Setup, CCR, ...).

Products:

  • Code Scanning - The changes impact analyses when analysis-kinds: code-scanning.
  • Code Quality - The changes impact analyses when analysis-kinds: code-quality.
  • CCR - The changes impact analyses for Copilot Code Reviews.

Environments:

  • Dotcom - Impacts CodeQL workflows on github.com and/or GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency.
  • GHES - Impacts CodeQL workflows on GitHub Enterprise Server.

How did/will you validate this change?

  • Test repository - This change will be tested on a test repository before merging.
  • Unit tests - I am depending on unit test coverage (i.e. tests in .test.ts files).
  • End-to-end tests - I am depending on PR checks (i.e. tests in pr-checks).

If something goes wrong after this change is released, what are the mitigation and rollback strategies?

  • Rollback - Change can only be disabled by rolling back the release or releasing a new version with a fix.

How will you know if something goes wrong after this change is released?

  • Telemetry - I rely on existing telemetry or have made changes to the telemetry.
    • Dashboards - I will watch relevant dashboards for issues after the release. Consider whether this requires this change to be released at a particular time rather than as part of a regular release.
    • Alerts - New or existing monitors will trip if something goes wrong with this change.

Are there any special considerations for merging or releasing this change?

  • Special considerations - This change should only be merged once certain preconditions are met. Please provide details of those or link to this PR from an internal issue.

Merge / deployment checklist

  • Confirm this change is backwards compatible with existing workflows.
  • Consider adding a changelog entry for this change.
  • Confirm the readme and docs have been updated if necessary.

@mbg mbg self-assigned this Feb 11, 2026
@github-actions github-actions bot added the size/M Should be of average difficulty to review label Feb 11, 2026
@mbg mbg force-pushed the mbg/risk-assessment-analysis branch from deac236 to 29847d7 Compare February 11, 2026 23:24
@mbg mbg force-pushed the mbg/risk-assessment-analysis branch from 29847d7 to 40e87b6 Compare February 11, 2026 23:51
@github-actions github-actions bot added size/L May be hard to review and removed size/M Should be of average difficulty to review labels Feb 11, 2026
@mbg mbg force-pushed the mbg/risk-assessment-analysis branch from 40e87b6 to c48cd24 Compare February 11, 2026 23:56
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