stackhawk-hawkscan-docker

Instructions for running HawkScan, a web-application security scanner, inside Docker containers. They cover normal scans, local applications, custom or combined configuration files, environment variables, and network access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to mount a project into the scanner, pass API keys and configuration files, scan local applications, merge configuration overrides, and produce JSON scan output.
Why use it?
They provide the correct container setup when the HawkScan command-line tool is unavailable or when scans run in continuous integration. They also explain why a container cannot normally reach the host's localhost address.

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-hawkscan-docker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stackhawk/agent-skills

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 440 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 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 $0.00000 $0.00440
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash 202f8ec3d4e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stackhawk-hawkscan-docker scanned grade A with 0 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

cursor/.cursor/rules/stackhawk-hawkscan-docker.mdc · 69 lines

What it actually says

HawkScan Docker Usage Reference

Use Docker when the hawk CLI isn't installed or in CI environments with Docker support.

Standard Run

# Mounts current dir as /hawk
docker run --rm \
  -v $(pwd):/hawk:rw \
  -e API_KEY=${HAWK_API_KEY} \
  -t stackhawk/hawkscan:latest

Scan Localhost (App on Host Network)

docker run --rm \
  -v $(pwd):/hawk:rw \
  --network host \
  -e API_KEY=${HAWK_API_KEY} \
  -t stackhawk/hawkscan:latest

Custom Config File

docker run --rm \
  -v $(pwd):/hawk:rw \
  -e API_KEY=${HAWK_API_KEY} \
  -t stackhawk/hawkscan:latest stackhawk-ci.yml

Merged Configs

Later files take precedence:

docker run --rm \
  -v $(pwd):/hawk:rw \
  -e API_KEY=${HAWK_API_KEY} \
  -t stackhawk/hawkscan:latest base.yml ci-override.yml

JSON Output (Agentic Use)

Note: --json-output requires at least HawkScan Dev Release v5.3.41.

docker run --rm \
  -v $(pwd):/hawk:rw \
  -e API_KEY=${HAWK_API_KEY} \
  -t stackhawk/hawkscan:latest --json-output

Networking Notes

Docker cannot reach localhost on the host by default:

  • Linux: Use --network host
  • Mac/Windows: Use host.docker.internal as the hostname in stackhawk.yml
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 · 69 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 202f8ec3d4e7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stackhawk-hawkscan-docker is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository stackhawk/agent-skills (15 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 440 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.