stackhawk-optimize-mapping

Rules for matching a codebase’s technology choices to a StackHawk security-scanning configuration. StackHawk is a tool that tests web applications and APIs for security problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps choose scan plugins, configure REST, HTML, single-page, OpenAPI, and GraphQL applications, and balance scan speed with coverage.
Why use it?
It reduces incorrect or unnecessary scan settings by using evidence from the project and checking the chosen configuration.

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

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 448 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 $0.00059 $0.00448
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00224
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash 44cc50efeb0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stackhawk-optimize-mapping 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-optimize-mapping.mdc · 39 lines

What it actually says

Codebase → Config Mapping

Tech flags

Reuse the hawkscan skill's tech-flag detection heuristics (linked from the Companion skills section of SKILL.md) — evidence files such as package.json, pom.xml, go.mod, requirements.txt, docker-compose.yml, Gemfile, *.csproj/*.sln. Map detected techs to canonical flag keys. The canonical flag list is authoritative — fetch it with hawk op app tech-flags get --app <APP> --format json and only use keys that exist. When enabling a child flag (e.g. Language.Java.Spring), also enable its parents.

Plugins

Start from a base preset that matches the app shape:

  • Plain REST/HTML app → DEFAULT
  • OpenAPI-described API → DEFAULT_API
  • GraphQL API → the GraphQL preset (confirm exact name via hawk op policy list)

Fetch the base with hawk op policy get --name <PRESET>. Then:

  • DROP plugin families irrelevant to the detected stack (reduces noise + time).
  • KEEP/ADD families the stack needs. Validate every plugin id against the base policy's plugin list — never invent ids.

stackhawk.yml correctness

  • App type: SPA → enable SPA/spider settings; REST → leave spider conservative.
  • OpenAPI spec present → set app.openApiConf to point at it.
  • GraphQL → consider app.autoPolicy: true.
  • Base paths → set sensible scope.
  • Auth → FLAG for the user; never fabricate credentials.

Profile lean

Default balanced. A speed lean drops more borderline plugin families and tightens scope; a coverage lean keeps families when in doubt. Only deviate from balanced if the user explicitly asks.

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 · 39 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 44cc50efeb0d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stackhawk-optimize-mapping is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository stackhawk/agent-skills (15 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 448 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.