Heyo, I'm the Product Director for detection & remediation engines, including CodeQL.

I would love to hear what kind of local experience you're looking for and where CodeQL isn't working well today.

As a general overview:

The CodeQL CLI is developed as an open-source project and can run CodeQL basically anywhere. The engine is free to use for all open-source projects, and free for all security researchers.

The CLI is available as release downloads, in homebrew, and as part of many deployment frameworks: https://github.com/advanced-security/awesome-codeql?tab=read...

Results are stored in standard formats and can be viewed and processed by any SARIF-compatible tool. We provide tools to run CodeQL against thousands of open-source repos for security research.

The repo linked above points to dozens of other useful projects (both from GitHub and the community around CodeQL).