Go CodeQL queries for Code Quality

Explore the queries that CodeQL uses to analyze code quality for code written in Go.

Code Quality uses the following CodeQL queries to analyze Go code and detect code quality issues on:

Your default branch, with results shown on the repository's "Standard findings" dashboard
Pull requests, with findings shown as comments made by github-code-quality[bot]

Copilot Autofix suggestions are provided for findings where possible.

Query name	Category	Severity
Useless assignment to field	Maintainability	Warning
Useless assignment to local variable	Maintainability	Warning
Bitwise exclusive-or used like exponentiation	Reliability	Warning
Comparison of identical values	Reliability	Warning
Constant length comparison	Reliability	Warning
Duplicate 'if' branches	Reliability	Warning
Duplicate 'if' condition	Reliability	Error
Duplicate switch case	Reliability	Error
Expression has no effect	Reliability	Warning
Identical operands	Reliability	Warning
Impossible interface nil check	Reliability	Warning
Inconsistent direction of for loop	Reliability	Error
Missing error check	Reliability	Warning
Off-by-one comparison against length	Reliability	Error
Redundant call to recover	Reliability	Warning
Redundant check for negative value	Reliability	Warning
Self assignment	Reliability	Warning
Shift out of range	Reliability	Warning
Unreachable statement	Reliability	Warning
Whitespace contradicts operator precedence	Reliability	Warning
Wrapped error is always nil	Reliability	Warning
Writable file handle closed without error handling	Reliability	Warning