Update query-metadata-style-guide.md

Added a bit about the @security-severity tag.
2026-05-18 13:17:08 +02:00 · 2021-07-29 17:41:58 +01:00
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 When you tag a query like this, the associated CWE pages from [MITRE.org](http://cwe.mitre.org/index.html) will automatically appear in the reference section of its associated qhelp file.

+Security relevant queries that will be run in Code Scanning should also have a `@security-severity` tag.  See https://github.com/github/cwe-scores for more information about this tag.
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 ## QL area

 ### Alert messages