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Expand Up @@ -652,9 +652,8 @@ Reusable static-analysis check with Semgrep Community Edition
stands in for CodeQL on the private `nightowlstudiollc` repos, which do not
have GitHub Code Security. The pilot caller is nightowlstudiollc/reliquarist.

It is **not** a required check. On a pull request it fails only on findings
that are new in that PR, so existing findings in a repo do not turn every PR
red.
Every caller makes it a required check, so Dependabot auto-merge waits for
it. On a pull request it fails only on findings that are new in that PR.

The triggering event and the secret pick the mode:

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```

- The status check is `semgrep-scan / semgrep` (caller job / inner job).
After the first `push` run on `main` is green, add it to the default
branch's required status checks.
- Pass the secret by name, not with `secrets: inherit`. With no such secret
in the repo it is empty, and the run uses scan mode.
- To skip paths, add a `.semgrepignore` to the caller repo.
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