stackhawk-api-hawk-op

A quick-reference guide that maps common security-reporting requests to StackHawk's hawk op command-line commands. StackHawk is a service for scanning web applications and reporting security findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose commands for listing applications, checking scans, reviewing findings, and performing other one-command StackHawk API operations.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent looking up which command to run for a specific StackHawk task.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/stackhawk/agent-skills/stackhawk-api-hawk-op
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stackhawk/agent-skills

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,042 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00061 $0.03042
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01521
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00608
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00304

Measured 2d ago against content hash 26d644bafe10, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

stackhawk-api-hawk-op scanned grade B with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

curl -fsSL "$url" -o hawk && chmod +x hawk && sudo mv hawk /usr/local/bin/hawk

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

url=$(curl -fsSL "$MANIFEST" | jq -r --arg g "$GROUP" \
cursor/.cursor/rules/stackhawk-api-hawk-op.mdc · 306 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 306 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hawk op Shortcuts — StackHawk API, one command at a time

Cheat sheet: user intent → hawk op command. hawk op --help and hawk op <cmd> --help are the canonical flag references.

See SKILL.md for the full workflow.


Setup (once) {#setup-once}

Install the combined hawk CLI — a single self-contained binary (no Java needed).

macOS — Homebrew (recommended):

brew tap stackhawk/cli
brew trust stackhawk/cli
brew install hawk

Otherwise resolve the binary from the manifest (the source of truth for the version and every download URL, https://download.stackhawk.com/hawkdocs/hawk.manifest.json):

# macOS / Linux — resolve the right binary from the manifest, then install
MANIFEST=https://download.stackhawk.com/hawkdocs/hawk.manifest.json
case "$(uname -s)/$(uname -m)" in
  Darwin/arm64)              GROUP=darwin-arm64 ;;
  Darwin/x86_64)             GROUP=darwin-x64 ;;
  Linux/x86_64)              GROUP=linux-x64 ;;
  Linux/aarch64|Linux/arm64) GROUP=linux-aarch64 ;;
esac
url=$(curl -fsSL "$MANIFEST" | jq -r --arg g "$GROUP" \
  '.latest.assets[] | select(.asset.group == $g and (.url | endswith("/hawk"))) | .url')
curl -fsSL "$url" -o hawk && chmod +x hawk && sudo mv hawk /usr/local/bin/hawk

URL pattern: https://download.stackhawk.com/hawk/<version>/<group>/hawk[.pkg|.exe|.msi] (<group>: darwin-arm64, darwin-x64, linux-x64, linux-aarch64, windows-x64, windows-arm64). macOS .pkg and Windows .msi installers are also available — see https://docs.stackhawk.com/downloads/.

hawk init --browser    # Browser device-flow auth; writes ~/.hawk/hawk.properties
hawk op status         # Confirm auth

hawk init writes credentials to ~/.hawk/hawk.properties.
hawk op reads that file plus the HAWK_API_KEY env var.

CI/CD only: For pipeline use, set HAWK_API_KEY directly as a secret. Org ID and output format can be set via env vars:

export HAWK_API_KEY=<your-api-key>   # from app.stackhawk.com → Settings → API Keys
export HAWK_ORG_ID=<org-uuid>
export HAWK_FORMAT=json

hawk op app list

Read the full file on GitHub · 306 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 306 lines · 61 tokens per session scan B 26d644bafe10

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stackhawk-api-hawk-op is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository stackhawk/agent-skills (15 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 3,042 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.