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Waleed dca1fd60be improvement(ci): scan CodeQL PRs at the promotion boundary, refresh main daily (#7213)
Feature PRs land on staging and are ~90% of PR scan volume (90 of the last 100
PRs target staging, 4 target main). Every one of them is scanned again — against
the exact tree being promoted — when the staging->main PR opens, so restricting
PR scans to main defers the signal to the promotion boundary rather than
dropping it. No ruleset or branch protection requires a CodeQL check, and the
alert view is fed by the push-to-main and scheduled analyses, not by PR runs.

Deliberately a branch cut rather than an activity-type cut. Dropping
`synchronize` would have cut a similar share of runs, but it scans a PR's first
commit and never its final state — backwards, since review fixups land in later
pushes.

The scheduled scan moves from weekly to daily. Pushes to main are rare, so with
PR scans limited to main the default-branch alert view leans on the cron more
than it used to, and a week is too long to leave it stale. It also reseeds the
overlay-base database that PR runs restore from: that cache key embeds the
CodeQL bundle version, so a bundle bump invalidates it, and an unused Actions
cache is evicted after 7 days.

Also records, in codeql-config.yml, why the obvious speed-up is a trap: adding
`queries:`/`packs:`/`query-filters:` trips OverlayDisabledReason.NonDefaultQueries
and permanently disables overlay analysis, trading a documented up-to-10x win on
the extraction phase (~53% of a run) for a few percent off the query phase.
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