build(deps): bump the actions group with 4 updates

[dependabot]

Bumps the actions group with 4 updates: github/gh-aw/actions/setup-cli, github/codeql-action/init, github/codeql-action/autobuild and github/codeql-action/analyze.

Updates github/gh-aw/actions/setup-cli from 0.89.14 to 0.89.21

Release notes

Sourced from github/gh-aw/actions/setup-cli's releases.

v0.89.21

🌟 Release Highlights

This release brings native web-search support for the Copilot engine, more flexible reusable-workflow failure reporting, and hardened safe-outputs checkout detection.

✨ What's New

• Native web-search on the Copilot engine — tools: web-search: now compiles to Copilot's built-in web_search tool (--allow-tool web_search) instead of producing a compile warning, making web search usable even in repos without GitHub tooling (e.g. Azure DevOps-hosted). See Web Search reference. (#62957)
• Dynamic failure-issue-repo for reusable workflows — safe-outputs.failure-issue-repo now accepts ${{ inputs.* }} expressions, matching existing support for report-failure-as-issue and report-failed-jobs, so reusable (workflow_call) workflows can route failure issues per caller without patching the compiled lock file. (#62945)
• Gateway steering events in audit output — gh aw audit now surfaces token_steering and timeout_steering events (type, message, timestamp) as gateway_steering_events in both JSON and console output, making it easier to see when runs are approaching AI Credit or time limits. (#62943)

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed cancelled AIC component accounting — cancelled compiler-owned component jobs are now only counted as zero AI Credits when GitHub job metadata proves execution never started; jobs with assigned runners, steps, or incomplete metadata are still accounted for correctly. (#62984)
• Safe-outputs checkout detection fixed for nested repos — the find_repo_checkout git-scan fallback now trusts scanned repositories cloned via a steps: entry or manual actions/checkout, fixing a regression where the containerized safe-outputs MCP server (different UID) couldn't read nested checkouts due to git's safe.directory trust not propagating beyond GITHUB_WORKSPACE. (#62944)

📚 Documentation

• Stale lock-file detection guidance — new docs explain how to detect stale/missing compiled .lock.yml files via gh aw list --json for CI enforcement, plus remediation steps for contributors. (#62947)
• Portable OTLP helper paths — OpenTelemetry/qmd examples now resolve the helper via RUNNER_TEMP instead of a hardcoded /tmp, for portability across runner environments. (#62940)

🔧 Internal

• Updated GitHub Actions versions and refreshed parser/repoutil/semverutil/sliceutil spec extractions.

[!WARNING]

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• o205451.ingest.us.sentry.io

To allow these domains, add them to the network.allowed list in your workflow frontmatter:

network:
  allowed:
    - defaults
    - "o205451.ingest.us.sentry.io"

See Network Configuration for more information.

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What's Changed

• [spec-extractor] Update package specifications for parser, repoutil, semverutil, sliceutil by @​github-actions[bot] in github/gh-aw#62922

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Commits

• c353937 Report gateway steering events in audit output (#62943)
• 7f9138d Fix cancelled daily AIC component accounting (#62984)
• 9ef513c Support native web-search on the Copilot engine (#62957)
• 73bc75d Document stale agentic workflow lock detection (#62947)
• d424601 Allow ${{ inputs.* }} expressions in safe-outputs.failure-issue-repo for ...
• 403aefe Add Agent of the Day blog post for 2026-09-23: Daily Caveman Optimizer (#62969)
• bd6aa2e Use portable path for OTLP helper guidance (#62940)
• 7334b08 [actions] Update GitHub Actions versions - 2026-09-23 (#62899)
• 273c72c Update package specifications for parser, repoutil, semverutil, sliceutil (#6...
• 606cfab docs: unbloat repo assist example (#62822)
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

Updates github/codeql-action/init from 4.38.0 to 4.38.1

Release notes

Sourced from github/codeql-action/init's releases.

v4.38.1

• The CodeQL Action now has experimental support for CodeQL releases for which per-language bundles are available. Per-language bundles support analysis for a single language and are therefore smaller than the combined bundles that allow analysis for all supported languages. As a result, per-language bundles take up less space on disk and are faster to download. We expect to roll this change out to everyone in the coming weeks. #4146

Changelog

Sourced from github/codeql-action/init's changelog.

CodeQL Action Changelog

See the releases page for the relevant changes to the CodeQL CLI and language packs.

[UNRELEASED]

No user facing changes.

4.38.2 - 24 Sept 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.27.1. #4160

4.38.1 - 18 Sept 2026

• The CodeQL Action now has experimental support for CodeQL releases for which per-language bundles are available. Per-language bundles support analysis for a single language and are therefore smaller than the combined bundles that allow analysis for all supported languages. As a result, per-language bundles take up less space on disk and are faster to download. We expect to roll this change out to everyone in the coming weeks. #4146

4.38.0 - 09 Sept 2026

• On GitHub-hosted runners, the CodeQL Action now deletes unused CodeQL bundles from the toolcache before downloading a different bundle, which frees up disk space for the analysis. We expect to roll this change out to everyone in September. #4124
• The CodeQL Action now supports CodeQL releases that are compatible with Linux Arm64 and downloads the native linux-arm64 CodeQL bundle when available. #4072
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.27.0. #4129

4.37.9 - 26 Aug 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.4. #4106

4.37.8 - 21 Aug 2026

No user facing changes.

4.37.7 - 13 Aug 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.3. #4085

4.37.6 - 04 Aug 2026

• Changed the default filepath for the new remote file address format that was introduced in CodeQL Action 4.37.0 / 3.37.0 to .github/codeql-config.yml to align it with the suggested path that is used elsewhere. #4070

4.37.5 - 03 Aug 2026

• Fixed a bug where a network error while streaming the download of the CodeQL bundle could terminate the init Action instead of falling back to downloading the bundle before extracting it. #4061

4.37.4 - 29 Jul 2026

• This version of the CodeQL Action adds support for the tools input for the codeql-action/init step to be specified using a github-codeql-tools repository property. This feature will gradually be rolled out following the release of this version. Once rolled out, this allows for the CodeQL CLI version that is used in GitHub-managed workflows, such as Default Setup, to be set to a custom value. For example, customers who run into issues with rate limits when a new CodeQL CLI version is released can set the value to toolcache to always use the CodeQL CLI version that is available in the runner toolcache. For Advanced Setup workflows, the value provided for tools in the workflow definition always takes precedence unless the value of the repository property starts with !. #4037
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.2. #4051

4.37.3 - 22 Jul 2026

No user facing changes.

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Commits

• 1c5b675 Merge pull request #4152 from github/update-v4.38.1-a65b83a73
• a97cdca Add changelog entry for #4146
• cc6c691 Update changelog for v4.38.1
• a65b83a Merge pull request #4146 from github/henrymercer/per-language-bundles-pr
• 07fa87d Clarify the latest-nightly eligibility exception
• f18f353 Describe the bundle URL resolver
• ecec9b5 Share per-language telemetry fields without renaming
• 79fe3a1 Move download telemetry into the status-report directory
• ead1f7d Rename the platform module
• 549d498 Simplify per-language platform eligibility checks
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

Updates github/codeql-action/autobuild from 4.38.0 to 4.38.1

Release notes

Sourced from github/codeql-action/autobuild's releases.

v4.38.1

• The CodeQL Action now has experimental support for CodeQL releases for which per-language bundles are available. Per-language bundles support analysis for a single language and are therefore smaller than the combined bundles that allow analysis for all supported languages. As a result, per-language bundles take up less space on disk and are faster to download. We expect to roll this change out to everyone in the coming weeks. #4146

Changelog

Sourced from github/codeql-action/autobuild's changelog.

CodeQL Action Changelog

See the releases page for the relevant changes to the CodeQL CLI and language packs.

[UNRELEASED]

No user facing changes.

4.38.2 - 24 Sept 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.27.1. #4160

4.38.1 - 18 Sept 2026

• The CodeQL Action now has experimental support for CodeQL releases for which per-language bundles are available. Per-language bundles support analysis for a single language and are therefore smaller than the combined bundles that allow analysis for all supported languages. As a result, per-language bundles take up less space on disk and are faster to download. We expect to roll this change out to everyone in the coming weeks. #4146

4.38.0 - 09 Sept 2026

• On GitHub-hosted runners, the CodeQL Action now deletes unused CodeQL bundles from the toolcache before downloading a different bundle, which frees up disk space for the analysis. We expect to roll this change out to everyone in September. #4124
• The CodeQL Action now supports CodeQL releases that are compatible with Linux Arm64 and downloads the native linux-arm64 CodeQL bundle when available. #4072
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.27.0. #4129

4.37.9 - 26 Aug 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.4. #4106

4.37.8 - 21 Aug 2026

No user facing changes.

4.37.7 - 13 Aug 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.3. #4085

4.37.6 - 04 Aug 2026

• Changed the default filepath for the new remote file address format that was introduced in CodeQL Action 4.37.0 / 3.37.0 to .github/codeql-config.yml to align it with the suggested path that is used elsewhere. #4070

4.37.5 - 03 Aug 2026

• Fixed a bug where a network error while streaming the download of the CodeQL bundle could terminate the init Action instead of falling back to downloading the bundle before extracting it. #4061

4.37.4 - 29 Jul 2026

• This version of the CodeQL Action adds support for the tools input for the codeql-action/init step to be specified using a github-codeql-tools repository property. This feature will gradually be rolled out following the release of this version. Once rolled out, this allows for the CodeQL CLI version that is used in GitHub-managed workflows, such as Default Setup, to be set to a custom value. For example, customers who run into issues with rate limits when a new CodeQL CLI version is released can set the value to toolcache to always use the CodeQL CLI version that is available in the runner toolcache. For Advanced Setup workflows, the value provided for tools in the workflow definition always takes precedence unless the value of the repository property starts with !. #4037
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.2. #4051

4.37.3 - 22 Jul 2026

No user facing changes.

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Commits

• 1c5b675 Merge pull request #4152 from github/update-v4.38.1-a65b83a73
• a97cdca Add changelog entry for #4146
• cc6c691 Update changelog for v4.38.1
• a65b83a Merge pull request #4146 from github/henrymercer/per-language-bundles-pr
• 07fa87d Clarify the latest-nightly eligibility exception
• f18f353 Describe the bundle URL resolver
• ecec9b5 Share per-language telemetry fields without renaming
• 79fe3a1 Move download telemetry into the status-report directory
• ead1f7d Rename the platform module
• 549d498 Simplify per-language platform eligibility checks
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

Updates github/codeql-action/analyze from 4.38.0 to 4.38.1

Release notes

Sourced from github/codeql-action/analyze's releases.

v4.38.1

• The CodeQL Action now has experimental support for CodeQL releases for which per-language bundles are available. Per-language bundles support analysis for a single language and are therefore smaller than the combined bundles that allow analysis for all supported languages. As a result, per-language bundles take up less space on disk and are faster to download. We expect to roll this change out to everyone in the coming weeks. #4146

Changelog

Sourced from github/codeql-action/analyze's changelog.

CodeQL Action Changelog

See the releases page for the relevant changes to the CodeQL CLI and language packs.

[UNRELEASED]

No user facing changes.

4.38.2 - 24 Sept 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.27.1. #4160

4.38.1 - 18 Sept 2026

• The CodeQL Action now has experimental support for CodeQL releases for which per-language bundles are available. Per-language bundles support analysis for a single language and are therefore smaller than the combined bundles that allow analysis for all supported languages. As a result, per-language bundles take up less space on disk and are faster to download. We expect to roll this change out to everyone in the coming weeks. #4146

4.38.0 - 09 Sept 2026

• On GitHub-hosted runners, the CodeQL Action now deletes unused CodeQL bundles from the toolcache before downloading a different bundle, which frees up disk space for the analysis. We expect to roll this change out to everyone in September. #4124
• The CodeQL Action now supports CodeQL releases that are compatible with Linux Arm64 and downloads the native linux-arm64 CodeQL bundle when available. #4072
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.27.0. #4129

4.37.9 - 26 Aug 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.4. #4106

4.37.8 - 21 Aug 2026

No user facing changes.

4.37.7 - 13 Aug 2026

• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.3. #4085

4.37.6 - 04 Aug 2026

• Changed the default filepath for the new remote file address format that was introduced in CodeQL Action 4.37.0 / 3.37.0 to .github/codeql-config.yml to align it with the suggested path that is used elsewhere. #4070

4.37.5 - 03 Aug 2026

• Fixed a bug where a network error while streaming the download of the CodeQL bundle could terminate the init Action instead of falling back to downloading the bundle before extracting it. #4061

4.37.4 - 29 Jul 2026

• This version of the CodeQL Action adds support for the tools input for the codeql-action/init step to be specified using a github-codeql-tools repository property. This feature will gradually be rolled out following the release of this version. Once rolled out, this allows for the CodeQL CLI version that is used in GitHub-managed workflows, such as Default Setup, to be set to a custom value. For example, customers who run into issues with rate limits when a new CodeQL CLI version is released can set the value to toolcache to always use the CodeQL CLI version that is available in the runner toolcache. For Advanced Setup workflows, the value provided for tools in the workflow definition always takes precedence unless the value of the repository property starts with !. #4037
• Update default CodeQL bundle version to 2.26.2. #4051

4.37.3 - 22 Jul 2026

No user facing changes.

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Commits

• 1c5b675 Merge pull request #4152 from github/update-v4.38.1-a65b83a73
• a97cdca Add changelog entry for #4146
• cc6c691 Update changelog for v4.38.1
• a65b83a Merge pull request #4146 from github/henrymercer/per-language-bundles-pr
• 07fa87d Clarify the latest-nightly eligibility exception
• f18f353 Describe the bundle URL resolver
• ecec9b5 Share per-language telemetry fields without renaming
• 79fe3a1 Move download telemetry into the status-report directory
• ead1f7d Rename the platform module
• 549d498 Simplify per-language platform eligibility checks
• Additional commits viewable in compare view

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What changed in this PR

Updates pinned GitHub Actions dependencies for agentic workflow tooling and CodeQL security scanning.

Changes:

• Bumps gh-aw setup action to v0.89.21.
• Bumps all CodeQL actions to v4.38.1.

File	Description
.github/​workflows/​copilot-setup-steps.yml	Updates the gh-aw setup action.
.github/​workflows/​codeql.yml	Updates CodeQL init, autobuild, and analysis actions.
.github/​workflows/​check-agentic-workflows.yml	Updates the agentic workflow checker setup action.

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