hawkscan SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
hawkscan from stackhawk/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add stackhawk/agent-skills/hawkscan@v0.0.0-devPins v0.0.0-dev in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- stackhawk/agent-skills
- Path
plugins/hawkscan/skills/hawkscan/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- v0.0.0-dev, committed Oct 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 9, 2026
- Size
- 30,825 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- MIT
Runs the HawkScan DAST security loop — configure, scan, fix all reported vulnerabilities (not just your changes), rescan to verify. Performs code-first discovery to configure high-value scans, and quality-gates every scan against code-derived expectations before findings are parsed. Use when the user asks to run or perform a security/DAST scan, to test an app or API for vulnerabilities, or to verify a vulnerability is fixed; and AUTONOMOUSLY right after you complete a code change…
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
# 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**
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## Prerequisites (preflight — run before anything else)
This skill requires **hawk v6.0.0 or newer**. Verify:
```bash
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
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add stackhawk/agent-skills/hawkscan@sha256:03779a9c71011d35The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.0.0-dev, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_n2pbxnfjnsewy7jc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Sep 9, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.0.0-dev latest | 2026-10-28 | d9c66cc | 30,825 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.7.1 | 2026-10-28 | 6ebff33 | 30,821 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.7.0 | 2026-10-09 | d0eea86 | 30,481 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.6.3 | 2026-10-02 | ce9cc4e | 29,980 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.6.2 | 2026-09-26 | 400c868 | 29,980 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.6.1 | 2026-09-18 | fb76da6 | 29,980 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.6.0 | 2026-09-14 | 35c9084 | 29,773 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.6.0 | 2026-09-14 | 3a531c4 | 29,711 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.6.0 | 2026-09-14 | 5fe0d68 | 29,673 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.5.1 | 2026-09-09 | 4089d13 | 27,822 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (30825 bytes)
- 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
stackhawk/agent-skills · 16 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n2pbxnfjnsewy7jc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stackhawk/agent-skills/hawkscan GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/03779a9c71011d351424d506b96efbad21de77e106ab8bbc250259be9a3e17fa
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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