Is Hawkscan safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores Hawkscan on public evidence — it is currently active. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install Hawkscan?

Drop the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ (user scope) or .claude/skills/ (project scope).

Who maintains Hawkscan?

7 GitHub contributors, source: stackhawk/claude-skills.

‹ The Index

Hawkscan

skill

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 (feature, bugfix, refactor) — "done" means "done and secure," so run the loop without asking permission. Do NOT trigger for: informational questions about what HawkScan is, detects, or how it works (e.g. …

Works with: Claude Code (native) · Cursor, Codex CLI (manual)
native: this artifact type is that client's own format

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Install (Claude Code):

cp -r hawkscan ~/.claude/skills/

Adoption: 1 repos
Upkeep: 97.0
Freshness: 93.0
Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use — the rest are unknown, and the score is discounted for it
Health: active
Contributors: 7
License: MIT

Security audit

Not scanned yet. We audit npm-published capabilities for known advisories, install-time scripts and permission surface; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue.

Its own instructions

Its SKILL.md says when to use it, shows worked examples, covers setup and states a limitation.

Read from the capability’s own SKILL.md. This is not a grade and does not compare to the instruction-depth verdict on an MCP server — a skill has no tools to document, so that rubric does not apply to it.

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Measured 2026-08-16 · scorer s5 · how · something wrong here?