This new feature combines the real-time capabilities of GitHub’s Copilot with CodeQL, the company’s semantic code analysis engine. The company first previewed this capability last November.

The team employs CodeQL in various ways to ensure the security of GitHub’s repositories. The standard configuration uses default and security-extended query suites, which are sufficient for the ...

Microsoft has open-sourced CodeQL queries that developers can use to scan source code for malicious implants matching the SolarWinds supply-chain attack. In December, it was disclosed that threat ...