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+name: "CodeQL Analysis for Anvilock"
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ "main" ]  # Trigger on push to the 'main' branch
+  pull_request:
+    # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
+    branches: [ "main" ]  # Trigger on pull requests to the 'main' branch
+
+jobs:
+  codeql:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      actions: read
+      contents: read
+      security-events: write
+
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        language: [ "c" ]  # Specify the primary language of your repo
+
+    steps:
+    - name: Checkout repository
+      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    - name: Initialize CodeQL
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@v2
+      with:
+        languages: ${{ matrix.language }}
+
+    - name: Run build-ubuntu.sh script
+      run: |
+        cd .github/workflows/
+        chmod +x ./build-ubuntu.sh
+        ./build-ubuntu.sh
+
+    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@v2