stackhawk-hawkscan-model

A reference explaining StackHawk's platform model for security scans. It covers how organisations, applications, environments, scans, findings, tags, and configuration files relate to one another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding whether to create or reuse StackHawk objects, interpreting finding statuses, tracing scans to commits or branches, handling rescans, or determining what belongs in stackhawk.yml.
Why use it?
It helps an agent understand where scan settings belong and how security findings move through states such as new, accepted, false positive, or reopened. This prevents incorrect decisions when creating scans or updating findings.

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

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 111 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,058 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 $0.00111 $0.04058
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.02029
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00812
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00406

Measured 2d ago against content hash 80cff131d5fd, 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-model 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-model.mdc · 413 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 413 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

StackHawk Platform Model

Deep reference for the object model behind every HawkScan run. Read this when the primer in SKILL.md isn't enough, when you see an unexpected findings[].paths[].status value, or when deciding whether to create a new App / Env.

Table of Contents

  1. The Four Objects in Detail
  2. What Goes in stackhawk.yml (and What Doesn't)
  3. The Finding Lifecycle (Triage States)
  4. Tags and Commit Traceability
  5. Technology Flags
  6. Rescan: Derived Scans for Fast Fix Verification
  7. Create vs. Reuse Decision Tree
  8. Cross-Reference to the api Skill

The Four Objects in Detail

Organization (orgId)

The tenant. A UUID tied to your StackHawk account. Set implicitly by your HAWK_API_KEY (each key is scoped to one org); you rarely reason about it directly. hawk op org get shows the active org.

Most customers have a single org. Multi-org setups exist (consultancies, MSSPs) — when present, every hawk op command accepts --org <ID> or uses named profiles (hawk op -P <profile> app list).

Not in stackhawk.yml. Implicit via auth.

Application (applicationId)

The long-lived object representing "the thing you're scanning." Each App:

  • Has a stable UUID (shown as applicationId in configs, APIs, everywhere)
  • Has a name (human-readable — used for hawk op app list lookups)
  • Has a team ownership assignment
  • Has technology flags that shape scan rule selection (see §5)
  • Is scanned across one or more Environments

An App lives for the lifetime of the thing you're protecting. Renaming a repo, refactoring, changing languages — none of these should produce a new App. New Apps are for genuinely new services.

In stackhawk.yml: app.applicationId.

Read the full file on GitHub · 413 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 · 413 lines · 111 tokens per session scan A 80cff131d5fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stackhawk-hawkscan-model is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository stackhawk/agent-skills (15 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 111 tokens to every session and 4,058 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. 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.