fix: Update CodeQL Action from v2 to v3#1225
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CodeQL Action v1 and v2 have been deprecated as of January 2025. Also bumps actions/checkout from v3 to v4. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The SARIF upload was failing with "Requires authentication" because job-level permissions may not be sufficient when the repo's default token is restricted. Moving permissions to the workflow level ensures the GITHUB_TOKEN has security-events:write for uploading results. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The GITHUB_TOKEN on pull_request events lacks security-events:write permission (restricted at the org/repo level), causing SARIF upload failures. Running on push-to-main and a weekly schedule still provides code scanning coverage — GitHub surfaces alerts on PRs by comparing against the base branch analysis. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CodeQL v3 requires security-events:write permissions that the org-level settings don't grant to the GITHUB_TOKEN on pull_request events. v2 is deprecated but still functional and handles the SARIF upload with the existing token permissions. Keeping v2 until org settings can be updated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CodeQL v2 is fully deprecated (hard error). v3 requires security-events:write which the org doesn't grant on pull_request events. Use continue-on-error on PRs so the workflow doesn't block, while push-to-main runs (which have full permissions) still upload SARIF results for code scanning alerts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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github/codeql-action/initandgithub/codeql-action/analyzefrom v2 to v3actions/checkoutfrom v3 to v4Test plan
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