managed-pentesting-with-strix

Strix Cloud (managed, no local infra)

Use this when you want Strix's autonomous pentesting without running Docker or an LLM yourself — the scan runs on Strix's infrastructure and results are tracked in a team dashboard. This is the right choice in sandboxed/hosted agent and CI environments, for teams, and for scheduled/continuous testing (downloadable PDF/DOCX reports are an Enterprise-plan feature). For fully local, free, air-gapped, or BYO-LLM runs, use the open-source CLI in the penetration-testing-with-strix skill instead — both share the same engine and SARIF output, so you can mix them.

There are two equivalent interfaces. Prefer the CLI:

• strix cloud CLI — every REST operation has a command in the form strix cloud <resource> <verb>. Install with curl -sSL https://strix.ai/install | bash. Run strix cloud to list all resources and strix cloud <resource> help (or -h) to list a resource's verbs; a bare resource with a safe read operation runs its documented default.
• REST API — base URL https://app.strix.ai/api/v1, Authorization: Bearer <token> on every request. Full reference: docs.app.strix.ai · agent index: https://docs.app.strix.ai/llms.txt · OpenAPI: https://docs.app.strix.ai/openapi.json.

The CLI is equally usable by agents and people. Output is complete JSON when stdout is not a terminal, or when you pass --json; terminal tables favor names, branches, lifecycle states, and numbered selectors. Human lists retain the selectors needed by follow-up commands but omit internal organization/user IDs; a selector too long for the compact table is repeated losslessly in a copyable block. Paginated lists print the next --page or --offset, and detail views preserve useful prose within a safe terminal bound; use --json for the complete record. Token lists label credentials as active, expired, or revoked. Binary downloads are the exception: redirect raw bytes intentionally, or use --output FILE --json to write the file and receive structured metadata. There are no interactive prompts when stdin is not a terminal. Exit codes: 0 success, 1 request/runtime error, 2 invalid usage, 4 authentication or plan limit, 5 payment required.

Every resource group with a safe read operation has a useful default action, and -h or help always shows its verbs. Native tab completion includes resources, verbs, flags, workspace commands, and local paths:

source <(strix completions zsh)       # current zsh session
source <(strix completions bash)      # current bash session
strix completions fish | source       # current fish session

Write commands take request fields as flags. Every write command also accepts one JSON object with --data, which is the way to send fields that have no flag:

strix cloud scans start --data '{"engagement_type":"code_review"}'   # literal JSON
strix cloud scans start --data @request.json                         # read a file
cat request.json | strix cloud scans start --data -                  # read standard input

The platform enforces plan and role limits, and the CLI passes the platform message through. Report downloads need the Enterprise plan. Schedules need the Pro plan. Billing writes need an admin token. A blocked command exits with code 4.