stackhawk-optimize-trial Cursor ruleA

stackhawk-optimize-trial from stackhawk/agent-skills is a Cursor rule: instructions the Cursor agent follows in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add stackhawk/agent-skills/cursor/.cursor/rules/stackhawk-optimize-trial.mdc@git:20260914.5fe0d68

Pins git:20260914.5fe0d68 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
Cursor rule
Repository
stackhawk/agent-skills
Path
cursor/.cursor/rules/stackhawk-optimize-trial.mdc
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260914.5fe0d68, committed Sep 14, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 30, 2026
Size
3,178 bytes
Repository stars
16
License
MIT

Optimize trial lifecycle: how a named scan policy reaches a scan via S3 download (non-destructive), deterministic OPTIMIZE_TRIAL_<APP>_<ENV> naming, crash-safe create/promote/discard sequences (orphan-policy and backup-file guards, reconstruct from the live policy), and failure handling.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Trial Lifecycle

> Setup mode builds + references the policy (steps 1–4, no scan); Refine mode runs the trial
> scan and promotes/discards (steps 5–9). Setup is re-runnable and is what hawkscan Phase 0c invokes on every fresh `stackhawk.yml`.

## How a named policy reaches a scan (why this is non-destructive)
When `app.scanPolicy.name` is set in `stackhawk.yml`, HawkScan bootstrap detects an
org-level policy and downloads it directly from S3 at scan start
(`AssetManagerClient.getDownloadedAsset(orgId, SCAN_POLICY, name)`), applying its tech flags
+ plugins and then layering the local `includePluginIds`/`excludePluginIds` toggles. The
application's own stored policy/flags are never read or mutated by this path.

## Naming
Trial policy name: `OPTIMIZE_TRIAL_<APP>_<ENV>`, transformed to match `^[A-Z0-9_]+$`
(uppercase; replace any non `[A-Z0-9]` run with `_`). Deterministic so re-runs are
idempotent.

## Create (trial)
1. Build the trial `ScanPolicy` JSON (base preset + edited tech flags + toggled plugins).
2. Clean up any stale orphan first: `hawk op policy delete --name OPTIMIZE_TRIAL_… --yes`
   (ignore "not found").
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add stackhawk/agent-skills/cursor/.cursor/rules/stackhawk-optimize-trial.mdc@sha256:2094e5a737ad5e65

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260914.5fe0d68, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 30, 2026 and Sep 14, 2026, about one every 76 days.

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  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

stackhawk/agent-skills · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fktpmmq3tcgl66lf
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stackhawk/agent-skills/cursor/.cursor/rules/stackhawk-optimize-trial.mdc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2094e5a737ad5e6545259625a90466fd967b080a25c8a038cf62baa2a4fe51ff

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