Managed Pentesting With Strix

Strix Cloud API (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.

Full reference: docs.app.strix.ai · OpenAPI: https://docs.app.strix.ai/openapi.json

Setup

• Base URL: https://app.strix.ai/api/v1

• Auth: every request sends Authorization: Bearer <token>. Tokens are org-scoped.

• Get a token: the user creates one in the dashboard at Settings → API Access (app.strix.ai). Ask them for it; never hardcode, log, or commit it. Store it in an env var or the CI secret store.

• Scopes (least-privilege): assign only what the integration needs and rotate regularly:

  Scope	Grants
  scans:read / scans:write	list/read/report scans · create/rerun/cancel scans
  vulnerabilities:read / :write	read findings · update status & notes
  assets:read / :write	read domains/repos · register/update them
  schedules:read / :write	read schedules · create/trigger recurring scans
  pr_reviews:write	trigger PR security reviews
  webhooks:read / :write	manage webhook subscriptions
  tokens:write	create/revoke API tokens

export STRIX_API_TOKEN="<token>"
BASE=https://app.strix.ai/api/v1
auth=(-H "Authorization: Bearer $STRIX_API_TOKEN")

All examples use jq to parse JSON. Handle HTTP errors: 401 bad/expired token, 402 out of credits, 403 scope/plan-tier limit, 422 validation error.

1. Register the target as an asset

Scans run against registered assets, not raw URLs. Register once, then reuse the returned UUID.

# Domain (black-box / live target). Requires domain verification before external scanning.
# asset_type must be one of: web_app | api | attack_surface.
curl -sS "$BASE/domains" "${auth[@]}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"staging.example.com","asset_type":"web_app"}' | jq '{id:.domain.id, status, reachable, verification}'

# Repository (white-box / code review). `full_name` is "owner/name".
# Send one repository object, or a bare JSON array for several — not an object
# wrapping a "repositories" key (that is rejected with 400).
curl -sS "$BASE/repositories" "${auth[@]}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"full_name":"org/app","provider":"github"}]' | jq '.repositories[] | {id, full_name}'

Look up existing assets instead of re-adding: GET /domains, GET /repositories (both assets:read, paginated with ?page=&limit=).

2. Launch a scan

POST /scans (scans:write). Provide at least one target via domain_ids, repository_ids, or internal_targets (internal infra needs a network connector — see docs).

scan_id=$(curl -sS "$BASE/scans" "${auth[@]}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
  "engagement_type": "live_test",
  "domain_ids": ["<domain-uuid>"],
  "focus": "IDOR, auth bypass, SSRF",
  "context": "Staging. Test account creds are configured as a test user.",
  "notify_on_completion": true
}' | jq -r .scan_id)
echo "$scan_id"

Useful CreateScanRequest fields:

Field	Purpose
engagement_type	live_test (default), code_review, internal_infra, compliance_pentest
domain_ids / repository_ids / internal_targets	targets (at least one)
domain_paths / repository_branches	narrow to specific paths / branches
credentials	authenticated scanning, incl. mfa_method (totp/email_otp/…) + totp_secret
headers	extra HTTP headers (API keys, for example) for the target
focus / concerns / context	steer the agents
upload_ids	attach uploaded source/docs archives for white-box context
notify_on_completion / notification_emails	email when done

Response is { scan_id, title, status } with status = pending.

3. Poll to completion

GET /scans/{scanId} (scans:read). Status flow: pending → running → completed (or failed / cancelled). Poll on an interval — scans take minutes to hours. Do not block.

while :; do
  s=$(curl -sS "$BASE/scans/$scan_id" "${auth[@]}" | jq -r .status)
  echo "status=$s"; [[ "$s" =~ ^(completed|failed|cancelled)$ ]] && break
  sleep 60
done

4. Read findings

The scan-detail response includes executive_summary, methodology, recommendations, a findings severity roll-up, and a vulnerabilities[] array. Each vulnerability carries title, severity, status, cvss, cwe, endpoint, method, impact, technical_analysis, poc_description, poc_script_code, and (for code findings) code_file/code_diff/code_before/code_after.

curl -sS "$BASE/scans/$scan_id" "${auth[@]}" \
  | jq '["critical","high","medium","low","info"] as $order
       | .vulnerabilities
       | sort_by(.severity as $s | $order | index($s))
       | .[] | {title, severity, endpoint, cwe}'

Cloud severities are critical | high | medium | low and statuses are open | in_progress | fixed | ignored. Sort by an explicit severity order rather than sort_by(.severity), which sorts alphabetically (critical, high, low, medium).

Org-wide triage across scans: GET /vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities:read; filter by severity/status). Update triage state with the vulnerabilities :write endpoints. To remediate, hand off to the fix-security-vulnerabilities-with-strix skill.

5. Export & report

# SARIF 2.1.0 for GitHub code scanning / ASPM ingestion
curl -sS "$BASE/scans/$scan_id/sarif" "${auth[@]}" -o findings.sarif

# Report. The format and file type are query params (`Accept` is ignored):
#   format=technical (default) | retest | attestation | executive_summary
#   type=pdf (default) | docx
# Any report download requires the Enterprise plan; formats beyond `technical`,
# DOCX, and white-label branding are Enterprise-only too. Scan must be completed.
curl -sS "$BASE/scans/$scan_id/report?format=technical&type=pdf" "${auth[@]}" -o strix-report.pdf

6. PR reviews

Trigger an automated security review of a pull request (pr_reviews:write); results appear as PR comments and in the dashboard:

curl -sS "$BASE/pr-reviews/start" "${auth[@]}" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"repository_full_name":"org/app","pr_number":123}'

List/inspect via GET /pr-reviews and GET /pr-reviews/{id}. Repo-level PR-review behavior is configured with the repository-settings endpoint.

7. Continuous testing (schedules & webhooks)

• Schedules (schedules:write, Pro plan): create recurring scans and trigger them on demand — the managed equivalent of a cron-driven CLI loop.
• Webhooks (webhooks:write): subscribe to pentest/vulnerability lifecycle events such as scan.completed and vulnerability.created to push results into Slack, ticketing, or your own pipeline instead of polling.

See the schedules and webhooks sections at docs.app.strix.ai for payloads.

Safety

Only scan assets the user's organization owns or is authorized to test. External domain scans require verification (DNS/file/meta-tag) enforced by the platform — do not try to bypass it.