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+name: "Code Scanning - Action"
+
+# Docs for this at https://github.com/github/codeql-action#usage
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+  schedule:
+    #        ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
+    #        │  ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
+    #        │  │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
+    #        │  │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12 or JAN-DEC)
+    #        │  │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6 or SUN-SAT)
+    #        │  │ │ │ │
+    #        │  │ │ │ │
+    #        │  │ │ │ │
+    #        *  * * * *
+    - cron: '30 1 * * 1'
+
+jobs:
+  CodeQL-Build:
+    # CodeQL runs on ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, and macos-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    permissions:
+      # required for all workflows
+      security-events: write
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
+      - name: Initialize CodeQL
+        uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
+
+      - name: Autobuild
+        uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@v2
+
+      - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+        uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2