hawkscan

hawkscan is a skill for Claude Code from stackhawk/agent-skills. It costs 217 tokens per session (7,389 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-testing workflow that checks a running web application or API for vulnerabilities, then helps address every reported issue and checks again.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure and run HawkScan, review its findings, create fix tasks, and rescan the application.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents a repeatable way to find security problems and verify that fixes worked, including issues outside the latest code changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: Claude Code plugin machinery.

Part of the hawkscan plugin — 1 skill, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure and run HawkScan, review its findings, create fix tasks, and rescan the application.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stackhawk/agent-skills/hawkscan
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 stackhawk/agent-skills --skill hawkscan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stackhawk/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hawkscan, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 217 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,389 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 82
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 294
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 12
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 139
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00217 $0.07389
Opus 5.5 $0.00087 $0.02956
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00043 $0.01478
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00739

Measured 8d ago against content hash b72acdd48808, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hawkscan 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/hawkscan/skills/hawkscan/SKILL.md · 519 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 519 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

HawkScan Skill

This skill enables Claude to act as the security testing orchestrator in an agentic coding loop. The core workflow is:

Code changes → Start Application/API → Configure HawkScan → Run scan → Parse findings → Generate fix tasks → Repeat


Prerequisites (preflight — run before anything else)

This skill requires hawk v6.0.0 or newer. Verify:

hawk version
hawk config --help >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "MISSING: hawk config — upgrade hawk to v6.0.0+"
[ -n "${HAWK_API_KEY:-}" ] || [ -f ~/.hawk/hawk.properties ] || echo "MISSING: credentials — set HAWK_API_KEY (headless) or run hawk init --browser (interactive)"
hawk skills status

If hawk is older than 6.0.0 or hawk config --help fails, stop and tell the user to upgrade first. Do not inline auth recipes from memory — they live in hawk config show and are stale by design when hardcoded.

hawk skills status reports whether the installed StackHawk agent skills are current. If it lists anything out of date, surface the exact upgrade command it prints (e.g. /plugin marketplace update stackhawk && /plugin update hawkscan) and recommend the user update before continuing — a stale skill may be missing fixes for the very issues you'll hit. It's a recommendation, not a hard stop: proceed if the user prefers. (If the subcommand isn't recognized, the installed hawk predates it — skip this check.)

See references/installation.md for upgrade and install instructions.


Companion Skills

The api skill wraps read-only StackHawk platform lookups via the hawk CLI (hawk op …):

Purpose Command
Check if App exists hawk op app list --format json
Check if Env exists hawk op env list --app <NAME|UUID> --format json
Get findings with triage hawk op scan get --app <NAME|UUID> --detail full --format json
List ASM repos hawk op repo list --format json
Link app to ASM repo hawk op repo link --repo-id <ID> --app-id <ID>
Get tech flags hawk op app tech-flags get --app <NAME|UUID> --format json
Disable all tech flags hawk op app tech-flags disable-all --app <NAME|UUID> --yes
Set specific tech flags hawk op app tech-flags set --app <NAME|UUID> Key=true
Triage a finding hawk op scan triage --scan <ID> --hash <HASH> --status false-positive --note ""
Bulk triage from file hawk op scan triage --scan <ID> --from-file triage.yaml
Annotate w/o triage perm hawk op finding note --scan <ID> --hash <HASH> --note "..."
Get scanned URIs hawk op scan uris <scanId> --format json (skip if the subcommand errors)
Get effective scan config hawk op scan config <scanId> (skip if the subcommand errors)

Read the full file on GitHub · 519 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 Changed · -1 lines b72acdd48808
  2. 15d ago Changed 82a25b127ad7
  3. 19d ago Changed b6fb2b6b1df8
  4. 23d ago Changed 9a31277fb636
  5. 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines a5f76f3fe03a
  6. 1mo ago Changed 8982cf65ae3e
  7. 1mo ago First seen · 511 lines · 217 tokens per session scan A 60718eacd7b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

hawkscan is a skill published in the GitHub repository stackhawk/agent-skills (16 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 217 tokens to every session and 7,389 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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