Run Scan

Skill: Run Scan

Run an OpenTaint scan over the project model and collect its findings

Inputs

Provided by the caller, fall back to the default value when omitted. Ask back only when a required input is missing and has no sensible default

• project-root (optional) — root of the target project. Opentaint keeps all analysis artifacts under the fixed <project-root>/.opentaint/ directory, so every .opentaint/... path below resolves there. Default: current directory
• rule-ids (optional) — full rule IDs to restrict the scan to
• max-memory (optional) — a --max-memory value to run scan with. Default: unset (engine default 8G)

Workflow

1. Run the scan

Scan the pre-built model at .opentaint/project. Write the report to .opentaint/results/report.sarif and load both the built-in ruleset and the project's own rules under .opentaint/rules:

opentaint scan --project-model .opentaint/project \
  -o .opentaint/results/report.sarif \
  --ruleset builtin --ruleset .opentaint/rules \
  --track-external-methods

• --rule-id <full-id> — restrict to specific rules (repeatable, one per input rule ID); every unnamed rule is dropped, including library refs, so list every id the restricted rules depend on. Omit to run all loaded rules
• --passthrough-approximations .opentaint/pass-through — add when that directory exists: passThrough configs override built-ins at the rule level, a provided rule overriding a built-in only when it matches one
• --dataflow-approximations .opentaint/dataflow — add when that directory exists: code-based approximations (sources auto-compiled; pre-compiled .class dirs passed through as-is)

Both approximation-dir flags walk their trees recursively; pass each parent directory once, not every package or batch separately.

The scan is long — run it in the background and wait for it to finish. Leave --timeout at the engine default (900s); the CLI ends the analysis itself and writes whatever SARIF it has.

2. Retry once on out-of-memory

Start at the 8G default. An out-of-memory failure at 8G — even when the engine still wrote a partial SARIF — is not an acceptable result: retry once at --max-memory 16G before collecting anything. Never higher (more RAM won't improve results), one bump only. When the caller passed max-memory, run at it from the first attempt instead

3. Collect the report, or escalate

A SARIF is complete enough to use even alongside the two normal scan errors — a timeout (the CLI ended the analysis and wrote what it had), or an out-of-memory at 16G (after §2's bump), take it as-is. The other two outcomes are not results to accept. A config-load failure on a malformed approximation is fixed, not bumped: report the engine error and the offending file under .opentaint/pass-through/.opentaint/dataflow per Output so it can be repaired and rescanned. No SARIF at all, even at 16G, is a plain failure: report it per Output with the scan setup.

Output

Short and concise report of what was done

Artifacts:

All three sit next to the report under .opentaint/results/:

• .opentaint/results/report.sarif — findings with code-flow traces
• .opentaint/results/dropped-external-methods.yaml — external methods where dataflow facts were killed for lack of a model
• .opentaint/results/approximated-external-methods.yaml — external methods already modeled

Summary:

• finding count, and dropped-vs-approximated external-method counts
• whether memory was bumped to 16G
• if the scan failed at config-load on a malformed approximation: the engine error and the offending file under .opentaint/pass-through or .opentaint/dataflow (located from the error), so it can be fixed and rescanned — this is not an out-of-memory failure and 16G won't help
• if no SARIF came out even at 16G: that the scan is left failed, with the setup used (full scan command with ruleset, approximation dirs, model)

Constraints

• Never hand-edit the project model to change scan results — this skill only reads it. If the model is wrong, rebuild it at the model stage rather than patching project.yaml or anything under it