cx-devassist-asca

cx-devassist-asca is a skill for Cursor from Checkmarx/cx-agentic-ai. It costs 109 tokens per session (4,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A source-code security checker for files such as Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, and TypeScript. It uses Checkmarx ASCA, or SAST, to find security weaknesses in code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scanning source files, responding to blocked writes caused by security findings, and remediating issues with Checkmarx.
Why use it?
It catches source-code vulnerabilities during development and provides a defined path for addressing findings.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin.

Part of the cx-devassist plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Scanning source files, responding to blocked writes caused by security findings, and remediating issues with Checkmarx.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/checkmarx/cx-agentic-ai/cx-devassist-asca
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Checkmarx/cx-agentic-ai --skill cx-devassist-asca
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Checkmarx/cx-agentic-ai

Made for: Cursor.

Or install cx-devassist, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 109 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,100 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00109 $0.04100
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.02050
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00820
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00410

Measured 8d ago against content hash 8de8c172789d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cx-devassist-asca 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 8d 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.

plugins/cursor-devassist/skills/cx-devassist-asca/SKILL.md · 328 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 328 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CX Security ASCA

Detects and remediates SAST vulnerabilities in source files using Checkmarx ASCA.

When to Use

This skill has two entry points:

  1. On-demand scan — User asks to scan a source code file for vulnerabilities (e.g., "scan this file", "check app.py for security issues"). If the target is a dependency manifest/lockfile (package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, …), use cx-devassist-sca instead.
  2. Remediation — User asks to fix ASCA findings, the agent receives a hook deny on Write/StrReplace (agent_message / CHECKMARX_HOOK_DENY), or ASCA findings are surfaced via the stop hook's followup_message.

If ASCA findings are already present in context (hook deny agent_message, CHECKMARX_HOOK_DENY block, prior scan result, or stop-hook message), skip Flow 1 entirely and proceed directly to Flow 2. Do not retry the blocked write, paste code in chat, or use shell workarounds.

Routing — which Checkmarx capability to use

Pick by the target, and ask if it is ambiguous:

The user wants to scan… Use
A source code file (.py, .js, .java, .go, .ts, …) for code vulnerabilities this skill (SAST/ASCA)
A dependency manifest / lockfile (package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, pom.xml, …) cx-devassist-sca (SCA/OSS)
An entire project / repository at cloud scale, or existing platform scan results the Checkmarx MCP (Cx1 cloud) tools

A bare "scan this file" refers to whatever file is in context: source code → this skill; a manifest/lockfile → cx-devassist-sca. If it is unclear which, ask the user.

Prerequisites

  • Checkmarx cx CLI installed. On a first-install session cx is in the canonical store but not yet on the agent shell's PATH, so invoke it by its absolute path, written for the shell you are actually in — PowerShell needs the & call operator and $env: variables, cmd needs %VAR%, bash needs forward slashes. All four forms are in ../cx-cli-setup/references/shells.md; the short version is:

Read the full file on GitHub · 328 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. 8d ago First seen · 328 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 8de8c172789d

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cx-devassist-asca is a skill published in the GitHub repository Checkmarx/cx-agentic-ai (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 109 tokens to every session and 4,100 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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