stackhawk-hawkscan-install

Instructions for installing HawkScan, StackHawk’s web-application security scanner, on macOS, Linux, or Windows.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps install or upgrade the HawkScan command-line tool, verify its version, sign in, configure CI secrets, and use Docker as an alternative.
Why use it?
It provides platform-specific installation and verification steps and explains that the current scanner includes its own runtime.

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

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,471 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 $0.00039 $0.01471
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00736
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00147

Measured 2d ago against content hash abe1b52329ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

stackhawk-hawkscan-install 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-hawkscan-install.mdc · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HawkScan Installation Reference

Minimum hawk version: This skill calls hawk config show <section> for live config documentation. You need hawk v6.0.0 or later. Verify with:

hawk version
hawk config --help

If hawk config is unrecognized, upgrade hawk before running this skill.

Contents


CLI Installation

HawkScan 6 ships as a single self-contained native binary per platform — the runtime is embedded, so no separate Java install is needed. The source of truth for the current version and every download URL is the manifest:

https://download.stackhawk.com/hawkdocs/hawk.manifest.json

URL pattern: https://download.stackhawk.com/hawk/<version>/<group>/hawk[.pkg|.exe|.msi], where <group> is one of darwin-arm64, darwin-x64, linux-x64, linux-aarch64, windows-x64, windows-arm64. Always resolve the URL from the manifest rather than hand-building it — the version and asset list are authoritative there.

Homebrew (macOS — recommended)

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

Download the binary (macOS / Linux)

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 ;;
  *) echo "unsupported platform"; exit 1 ;;
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
hawk version

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 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 · 162 lines · 39 tokens per session scan B abe1b52329ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stackhawk-hawkscan-install is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository stackhawk/agent-skills (15 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,471 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.