cx-devassist-sca

cx-devassist-sca is a skill for Cursor from Checkmarx/cx-agentic-ai. It costs 102 tokens per session (3,919 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A dependency security checker for open-source packages listed in files such as package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, or pom.xml. It uses Checkmarx SCA, or Software Composition Analysis, to find vulnerable or malicious packages and help remediate them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scanning dependency manifests and lockfiles, reviewing package findings, and fixing affected dependencies with Checkmarx.
Why use it?
It helps identify risky third-party packages before they become a security problem, and guides fixes for reported 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 dependency manifests and lockfiles, reviewing package findings, and fixing affected dependencies with Checkmarx.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/checkmarx/cx-agentic-ai/cx-devassist-sca
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-sca
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 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,919 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 $0.00102 $0.03919
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01959
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00784
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00392

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5567e1a11bf3, 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-sca 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-sca/SKILL.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CX DevAssist SCA

Detects and remediates vulnerable / malicious open-source dependencies using Checkmarx SCA (OSS realtime). This is the dependency / package counterpart to cx-devassist-asca (which scans source code for SAST vulnerabilities).

When to Use

This skill has two entry points:

  1. On-demand scan — User asks to scan or audit dependencies (e.g., "scan my dependencies", "check package.json", "are my npm/pip packages safe?", "audit go.mod").
  2. Remediation — User asks to fix SCA/OSS findings, or SCA findings from a hook message need fixing.

If SCA findings are already present in context (e.g., provided by a hook message or a prior scan), skip Flow 1 and go directly to Flow 2 using those findings. Do not re-run the scan.

Routing — which Checkmarx capability to use

The plugin exposes three scan surfaces; pick by the target, and ask if it is ambiguous:

The user wants to scan… Use
A source code file (.py, .js, .java, .go, …) for code vulnerabilities cx-devassist-asca (SAST)
A dependency manifest / lockfile (package.json, requirements.txt, go.mod, pom.xml, …) this skill (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: a manifest/lockfile → this skill; source code → cx-devassist-asca. 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:

    "$HOME/.checkmarx/bin/cx"                       # bash / sh (macOS, Linux)
    "$LOCALAPPDATA/Checkmarx/cx/cx.exe"             # bash / sh (Git Bash on Windows)
    & "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Checkmarx\cx\cx.exe"       # PowerShell — & is REQUIRED
    "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Checkmarx\cx\cx.exe"            # cmd.exe
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 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 · 303 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 5567e1a11bf3

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cx-devassist-sca is a skill published in the GitHub repository Checkmarx/cx-agentic-ai (0 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 3,919 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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