---
title: "Submit libraries for vulnerability scanning"
method: POST
path: "/api/v2/static-analysis-sca/dependencies/scan"
tags: ["Static Analysis"]
---

# Submit libraries for vulnerability scanning

`POST /api/v2/static-analysis-sca/dependencies/scan`

## Request body

- McpScanRequest — The top-level request object for submitting an MCP SCA dependency scan.
  - `data` McpScanRequestData, required — The data object in an MCP SCA scan request, containing the scan attributes and request type.
    - `attributes` McpScanRequestDataAttributes, required — The attributes of an MCP SCA scan request, describing the libraries to scan and their context.
      - `commit_hash` string, required — The commit hash of the source code being scanned.
      - `libraries` McpScanRequestDataAttributesLibrariesItems[], required — The list of libraries to scan for vulnerabilities.
        - `exclusions` string[] — The list of dependency PURLs to exclude when resolving transitive dependencies for this library.
        - `is_dev` boolean, required — Whether this library is a development-only dependency.
        - `is_direct` boolean, required — Whether this library is a direct (rather than transitive) dependency.
        - `package_manager` string, required — The package manager that produced this library entry (for example, `npm`, `pip`, `nuget`).
        - `purl` string, required — The Package URL (PURL) uniquely identifying the library and its version.
        - `target_frameworks` string[] — The list of target framework identifiers associated with the library.
      - `resource_name` string, required — The name of the resource (typically the repository or project name) being scanned.
    - `id` string — An optional identifier for this scan request.
    - `type` 'mcpscanrequest', required — The type identifier for MCP SCA scan requests.

## Response `202`

Accepted

- McpScanRequestResponse — The top-level response object returned when an MCP SCA dependency scan request has been accepted.
  - `data` McpScanRequestResponseData, required — The data object returned when a scan request has been accepted.
    - `attributes` McpScanRequestResponseDataAttributes, required — The attributes returned when a scan request has been accepted, containing the job identifier used to poll for results.
      - `job_id` string, required — The job identifier assigned to the scan, used to retrieve the scan result.
    - `id` string, required — The job identifier assigned to the scan.
    - `type` 'mcpscanrequestresponse', required — The type identifier for MCP SCA scan request responses.

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `429` — Too many requests

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