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+### Risk assessment
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+For internal use only. Please select the risk level of this change:
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+- **Low risk:** Changes are fully under feature flags, or have been fully tested and validated in pre-production environments and are highly observable, or are documentation or test only.
+- **High risk:** Changes are not fully under feature flags, have limited visibility and/or cannot be tested outside of production.
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 ### Merge / deployment checklist
 
-- [ ] Confirm this change is backwards compatible with existing workflows.
-- [ ] Confirm the [readme](https://github.com/github/codeql-action/blob/main/README.md) has been updated if necessary.
-- [ ] Confirm the [changelog](https://github.com/github/codeql-action/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) has been updated if necessary.
+- Confirm this change is backwards compatible with existing workflows.
+- Consider adding a [changelog](https://github.com/github/codeql-action/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md) entry for this change.
+- Confirm the [readme](https://github.com/github/codeql-action/blob/main/README.md) and docs have been updated if necessary.