[MERGE] Closes PR #285 & PR #287

- Closes GHI #165
- Closes GHI #284

Author: reactive-firewall

.github/workflows/flake8.yml

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+---
+name: Flake8 Analysis
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+permissions: {}  # Setting default permissions to none for enhanced security
+
+jobs:
+  flake8:
+    permissions:
+      contents: read  # for actions/checkout to fetch code
+      pull-requests: read  # to get PR metadata
+      security-events: write  # for github/codeql-action/upload-sarif to upload SARIF results
+    name: Flake8 Analysis
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest]
+    env:
+      OS: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
+        with:
+          persist-credentials: false
+      - name: Flake8 Scan
+        uses: reactive-firewall/flake8-cq@3b5b942aa102be6407838c21bc3deb10ef9a4541  # v1.0.1-beta
+        with:  # optional arguments
+          config: '.flake8.ini'
+          match: '**/*.py'
+          publish-artifacts: false
+        if: ${{ success() }}