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-name: "Compile all queries using the latest stable CodeQL CLI"
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:  # makes sure the cache gets populated - running on the branches people tend to merge into.
-      - main
-      - "rc/*"
-      - "codeql-cli-*"
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - '**.ql'
-      - '**.qll'
-      - '**/qlpack.yml'
-      - '**.dbscheme'
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  detect-changes:
-    if: github.repository_owner == 'github'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    outputs:
-      languages: ${{ steps.detect.outputs.languages }}
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      - name: Detect changed languages
-        id: detect
-        run: |
-          if [[ "${{ github.event_name }}" == "pull_request" ]]; then
-            # For PRs, detect which languages have changes
-            changed_files=$(gh pr view ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }} --json files --jq '.files.[].path')
-            languages=()
-            for lang in actions cpp csharp go java javascript python ql ruby rust swift; do
-              if echo "$changed_files" | grep -qE "^($lang/|shared/)" ; then
-                languages+=("$lang")
-              fi
-            done
-            echo "languages=$(jq -c -n '$ARGS.positional' --args "${languages[@]}")" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          else
-            # For pushes to main/rc branches, run all languages
-            echo 'languages=["actions","cpp","csharp","go","java","javascript","python","ql","ruby","rust","swift"]' >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          fi
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-
-  compile-queries:
-    needs: detect-changes
-    if: github.repository_owner == 'github' && needs.detect-changes.outputs.languages != '[]'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest-xl
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        language: ${{ fromJson(needs.detect-changes.outputs.languages) }}
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      - name: Setup CodeQL
-        uses: ./.github/actions/fetch-codeql
-        with:
-          channel: 'release'
-      - name: Cache compilation cache
-        id: query-cache
-        uses: ./.github/actions/cache-query-compilation
-        with: 
-          key: ${{ matrix.language }}-queries
-      - name: check formatting
-        run: find shared ${{ matrix.language }}/ql -type f \( -name "*.qll" -o -name "*.ql" \) -print0 | xargs -0 -n 3000 -P 10 codeql query format -q --check-only
-      - name: compile queries - check-only
-        # run with --check-only if running in a PR (github.sha != main)
-        if : ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
-        shell: bash
-        run: codeql query compile -q -j0 ${{ matrix.language }}/ql/{src,examples} --keep-going --warnings=error --check-only --compilation-cache "${{ steps.query-cache.outputs.cache-dir }}" --compilation-cache-size=500 --ram=56000
-      - name: compile queries - full
-        # do full compile if running on main - this populates the cache
-        if : ${{ github.event_name != 'pull_request' }}
-        shell: bash
-        run: codeql query compile -q -j0 ${{ matrix.language }}/ql/{src,examples} --keep-going --warnings=error --compilation-cache "${{ steps.query-cache.outputs.cache-dir }}" --compilation-cache-size=500 --ram=56000