diff --git a/.github/actions/analysis/codeql/action.yml b/.github/actions/analysis/codeql/action.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1296205
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/actions/analysis/codeql/action.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#
+# BSD 3-Clause License
+# Copyright (C) 2026 Intel Corporation
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+#
+name: 'CodeQL Scan'
+description: 'Initialize CodeQL, build dvledtx, and perform CodeQL analysis for C/C++'
+
+runs:
+  using: composite
+  steps:
+    # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning.
+    - name: Initialize CodeQL
+      uses: github/codeql-action/init@8aad20d150bbac5944a9f9d289da16a4b0d87c1e # v4.36.2
+      with:
+        languages: c-cpp
+        build-mode: manual
+
+    # `c-cpp` always requires a manual build so CodeQL can trace the
+    # compiler invocations produced by meson/ninja.
+    - name: Build dvledtx
+      uses: ./.github/actions/build-dvledtx
+
+    - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis
+      uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@8aad20d150bbac5944a9f9d289da16a4b0d87c1e # v4.36.2
+      with:
+        category: "/language:c-cpp"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58d9afd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/codeql.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#
+# BSD 3-Clause License
+# Copyright (C) 2026 Intel Corporation
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+#
+# CodeQL Advanced workflow for dvledtx (C/C++ project built with meson/ninja).
+#
+# This repository only contains C sources, so the language matrix has been
+# reduced to `c-cpp` and the build mode set to `manual`, reusing the existing
+# environment-check/build-dvledtx composite actions so CodeQL traces the same
+# build the rest of CI performs.
+name: CodeQL Scan
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Weekly on Monday at 07:19 UTC
+    - cron: '19 7 * * 1'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions: {}
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  codeql:
+    name: CodeQL Scan
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 45
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      security-events: write # Required to upload SARIF results to GitHub Security tab
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Clean up previous run
+        env:
+          WORKSPACE: ${{ github.workspace }}
+        run: |
+          find "$WORKSPACE" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} +
+
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.sha }}
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          persist-credentials: false
+
+      - name: Environment check
+        uses: ./.github/actions/environment-check
+
+      - name: CodeQL Scan
+        uses: ./.github/actions/analysis/codeql
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scan_on_demand.yml b/.github/workflows/scan_on_demand.yml
index 3214385..3efa0de 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/scan_on_demand.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/scan_on_demand.yml
@@ -103,18 +103,27 @@ jobs:
           cat "$REPORT"
 
       - name: ShellCheck
+        if: always()
         uses: ./.github/actions/analysis/shellcheck
 
       - name: zizmor Scan
+        if: always()
         uses: ./.github/actions/analysis/zizmor
 
       - name: cppcheck
+        if: always()
         uses: ./.github/actions/analysis/cppcheck
 
       - name: Trivy Scan
+        if: always()
         uses: ./.github/actions/analysis/trivy
 
+      - name: CodeQL Scan
+        if: always()
+        uses: ./.github/actions/analysis/codeql
+
       - name: Coverity Scan
+        if: always()
         uses: ./.github/actions/analysis/coverity
         env:
           COVERITY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.COVERITY_TOKEN }}
@@ -122,17 +131,19 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Upload SARIF to Security tab
         uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@8aad20d150bbac5944a9f9d289da16a4b0d87c1e # v4.36.2
-        if: always()
+        if: always() && hashFiles('reports/coverity-results.sarif') != ''
         with:
           sarif_file: reports/coverity-results.sarif
           category: coverity
 
       - name: AFL Fuzz
+        if: always()
         uses: ./.github/actions/analysis/afl-fuzz
         with:
           max-seconds: '300'
 
       - name: libFuzzer
+        if: always()
         uses: ./.github/actions/analysis/libfuzzer
         with:
           max-seconds: '300'