Set up the OpenSSF Scorecard GitHub Action to run security checks and upload results as SARIF to GitHub code scanning
domain: github.com/ossf/scorecard-action · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Create .github/workflows/scorecard.yml in your repository
Use ossf/scorecard-action@latest as a workflow step; set on: schedule with a weekly or daily cron trigger, and on: push to the default branch
Set permissions: security-events: write, id-token: write, and contents: read in the workflow
Pass SCORECARD_TOKEN (a fine-grained PAT or GITHUB_TOKEN) via the token input to authenticate Scorecard API calls against the GitHub API
Add the upload-artifact step after the Scorecard action to upload the SARIF output file, then add github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v3 pointing to the scorecard results SARIF file to publish findings to the Security tab
View results in the repository's Security > Code scanning alerts tab after the first successful workflow run
Known gotchas
The id-token: write permission is required for keyless OIDC publishing of Scorecard results to the public scorecard API; omitting it disables the public badge but does not block SARIF upload
SARIF upload to code scanning requires the repository to have GitHub Advanced Security enabled on private repositories; public repositories get it for free
Scorecard checks make authenticated GitHub API calls; without a valid GITHUB_TOKEN or PAT the workflow will hit API rate limits and checks will fail or return incomplete scores
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