No option to re-try failed CodeQL jobs

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
32/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, typescript
Domain
ci-cd, security

Research direction

The issue names no repository files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing how native/non-YAML CodeQL jobs are represented after failure and how retry actions are exposed, then determine whether the requested retry option belongs in this repository; done means a failed job can be retried without closing and reopening its pull request.

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Description

We're using the native/non-YAML CodeQL implementation. GitHub had an outage earlier today, where git itself was returning HTTP 500's for about an hour. During this time, the CodeQL jobs for our repo failed. Unlike other jobs, we have no option to retry them. It's "view" or "delete". The only workaround I could think of is closing the triggering PR and opening a new one, but I shouldn't have to do that on native GitHub functionality failing.

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