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Creating a workflow for code scanning

Create and customize a GitHub Actions workflow to control the analysis of your codebase.

Important

Code scanning is available for organization-owned repositories in GitHub Enterprise Server. This feature requires a license for GitHub Advanced Security. For more information, see "About GitHub Advanced Security."

Configuring code scanning

You can configure code scanning for a repository to find security vulnerabilities in your code.

Customizing code scanning

You can customize how GitHub scans the code in your project for vulnerabilities and errors.

CodeQL code scanning for compiled languages

Understand the autobuild method CodeQL analysis uses to build code for compiled languages and learn how you can customize the build command if you need to.

Configuring code scanning with CodeQL at scale

You can use a script to configure code scanning for a specific group of repositories in your organization.

Recommended hardware resources for running CodeQL

Recommended specifications (RAM, CPU cores, and disk) for running CodeQL analysis on self-hosted machines, based on the size of your codebase.

Running CodeQL code scanning in a container

You can run code scanning in a container by ensuring that all processes run in the same container.