ci: enable GitHub CodeQL code scanning - #54
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GET /repos/unbraind/pm-github/code-scanning/alerts returned HTTP 404 "no analysis found" on 2026-08-22: code scanning has never produced an analysis here, so the Security tab could not distinguish "clean" from "never ran". Add .github/workflows/codeql.yml: - languages: javascript-typescript, build-mode: none - triggers: push to main, pull_request to main, weekly staggered schedule - permissions limited to security-events:write, actions:read, contents:read - github/codeql-action pinned at v4 (fleet major-tag convention) Deliberately advisory, not a required status check: a brand-new required check that has never reported would block every PR in this repo. Tracked as pm-github-sx18.
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WalkthroughThe pull request adds a GitHub Actions CodeQL workflow for JavaScript/TypeScript analysis. It also adds chore metadata, verification commands, and audit-history records for the workflow. ChangesCodeQL scanning
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new advisory scan uses mutable action references while granting permission to publish security results, so its behavior could change unexpectedly; its validation should also confirm that a successful scan and analysis were produced. Pin the actions and add these checks before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GitHub
participant ActionsRunner
participant CodeQL
GitHub->>ActionsRunner: Trigger on push, pull request, or weekly schedule
ActionsRunner->>ActionsRunner: Check out the repository
ActionsRunner->>CodeQL: Initialize JavaScript/TypeScript source-only analysis
CodeQL->>ActionsRunner: Perform categorized analysis
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Reviewer's GuideAdds a locked-down GitHub Actions CodeQL workflow for JavaScript/TypeScript and records the change in the project management agents, enabling regular security code scanning without affecting existing branch protections. Sequence diagram for the CodeQL security scanning workflowsequenceDiagram
participant GitHub as GitHub Actions
participant Runner as Ubuntu Runner
participant CodeQL as CodeQL Action
participant Security as Code Scanning
GitHub->>Runner: Trigger workflow on push, pull_request, or weekly schedule
Runner->>Runner: actions/checkout@v7
Runner->>CodeQL: github/codeql-action/init@v4
CodeQL-->>Runner: Initialize javascript-typescript with build-mode none
Runner->>CodeQL: github/codeql-action/analyze@v4
CodeQL->>Security: Upload analysis with security-events: write
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In @.agents/pm/chores/pm-github-sx18.toon:
- Around line 19-22: Update the CodeQL validation in the workflow configuration
to query the code-scanning analyses endpoint, filter results client-side by the
analysis_key for .github/workflows/codeql.yml, and assert that the matching run
has conclusion equal to success. Do not use the alerts endpoint or require alert
records, since a successful clean scan may return none.
Apply the same fix in @.agents/pm/chores/pm-github-sx18.toon around lines 16 -
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In @.github/workflows/codeql.yml:
- Line 23: Update the workflow action references to immutable commit SHAs: use
the specified SHA for actions/checkout and the specified SHA for both
github/codeql-action/init and github/codeql-action/analyze, preserving the
existing major-tag convention note.
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Applies three review findings across every CodeQL workflow in the fleet in one sweep, rather than one PR at a time. Greptile flagged mutable action references. I checked whether the fleet had a convention to defer to before accepting that, because deferring would have been the better answer if one existed. It does not: the fleet is split, 113 SHA-pinned references against 129 tag references. With nothing to defer to, digest pinning is the right call for a security-scanning workflow in particular, since a moved tag would silently change what scans the code. actions/checkout@v7 and github/codeql-action@v4 are pinned to the digests those tags currently resolve to, with the tag retained in a trailing comment; the checkout digest is the one already used elsewhere in the fleet. CodeRabbit flagged that repeated pushes run concurrent scans of the same ref. A concurrency group now cancels superseded runs, but only for pull_request events: cancelling a push or a scheduled run would leave the default branch without a fresh analysis, which is the condition this whole workflow exists to remove.
…kout token Two further review findings, applied across every CodeQL workflow. Permissions were granted at workflow level, which is strictly wider than this workflow needs and would silently extend to any job added later. They now sit on the single codeql job that actually uses them. actions/checkout leaves the job token in .git/config by default. Nothing in this workflow pushes, so persist-credentials: false removes a credential that would otherwise be readable by any later step - which matters more here than usual, since the whole point of the workflow is to analyse code that may be attacker-influenced on a pull_request trigger. Both changes are asserted structurally rather than by eye: the check parses the YAML and requires top-level permissions to be absent, the job permissions to equal the exact three-key grant, persist-credentials to be literally false, and the codeql-action reference to carry the pinned digest. An earlier version of this sweep emitted the permissions block at the wrong indentation, which a weaker check that only tested for the key would have passed.
Seven review threads across these PRs said the same thing in different words: the recorded validation tests do not assert anything, so they pass whether or not CodeQL works. They were right, and this is the more serious finding in the batch, because an acceptance record that cannot fail is worse than no record - it reads as evidence. Both entries are replaced in every CodeQL tracking item. The workflow check asserted nothing at all. `gh run list` prints a failed run just as happily as a successful one, so the entry passed while the scan was broken. It now requests `--json conclusion` and asserts `^success$`. The alerts check queried `/code-scanning/alerts` with a regex matching only non-empty alert objects. That is wrong twice over: an empty array is the correct answer for a clean repository, so the assertion failed on success, and an empty array is in any case ambiguous between analysed-and-clean and never-analysed - which is precisely the ambiguity these PRs exist to remove. The entry now queries `/code-scanning/analyses` and asserts at least one CodeQL analysis exists, which answers did-a-scan-run directly. Verified in both directions rather than assumed. All seven repositories run green (`assertion_failure: 0`), which also confirms each now has a real analysis. Against a repository with no CodeQL yet, `/analyses` returns HTTP 404 `no analysis found` and gh exits non-zero, so the assertion fails closed. One note on process: the first version of the analyses command stored the jq filter unquoted, and the shell consumed the pipe. Running the tests caught it; reading them would not have.
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Pushed three follow-up commits addressing every finding above: actions pinned by digest (with the tag kept in a trailing comment), permissions scoped to the Each thread has an individual reply with the reasoning and the verification evidence. @coderabbitai full review |
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Verified 2026-08-22:
GET /repos/unbraind/pm-github/code-scanning/alertsreturns HTTP 404"no analysis found". Code scanning has never produced an analysis in this repo, so the Security tab cannot tell "clean" from "never ran".Change
.github/workflows/codeql.yml:javascript-typescriptwithbuild-mode: none, triggered on push tomain, PRs tomain, and a weekly staggered schedule.security-events: write,actions: read,contents: read.github/codeql-actionpinned at v4, consistent with fleet major-tag pinning (checkout@v7,setup-node@v7).Deliberately advisory
Not added as a required branch-protection check — a brand-new required check that has never reported would block every PR indefinitely. Consider making it required after it has a green track record.
Gates:
npm run release:checkgreen,npm test283 pass,pm health --strict-exitgreen.Tracked as pm-github-sx18.
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Enable advisory GitHub CodeQL scanning to establish regular baseline analyses for the repository.
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Enables GitHub CodeQL code scanning so the repo produces a baseline analysis; previously scans never ran and the alerts API returned 404 "no analysis found." The workflow runs on pushes and PRs to
mainand a weekly schedule, and remains advisory (not a required check)..github/workflows/codeql.ymlforjavascript-typescriptwithbuild-mode: none; triggers on push/PR tomainand a weekly cron; PR-only concurrency cancels superseded runs.github/codeql-action@v4andactions/checkout@v7by digest to avoid mutable tag drift.codeqljob (security-events: write,actions: read,contents: read) and setsactions/checkoutpersist-credentials: false./code-scanning/analyses.Written for commit 5bf17f5. Summary will update on new commits.