diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index fab8bc63..f4eb5e60 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -587,8 +587,8 @@ jobs:
       # check — pinning the hash here makes that fail instead. To upgrade, bump
       # the version and replace the hash with the new release's published
       # .sha256 (confirm the bytes first).
-      HAWKEYE_VERSION: v6.5.1
-      HAWKEYE_SHA256: d6eb0505a45a15244f4f789158aafe5e3f1a7dc86c9dc1d7651f3cb1e1b321e0
+      HAWKEYE_VERSION: v7.0.0
+      HAWKEYE_SHA256: 2617b43ec6f871511f7b381e3d34544d6aa47c2468541ca67102d69ff7d0f541
       HAWKEYE_INSTALL_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/.hawkeye-bin
     # A manual E2E dispatch only exercises the E2E jobs; skip the rest.
     if: github.event_name != 'workflow_dispatch'
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           tarball="hawkeye-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz"
           curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf \
-            "https://github.com/korandoru/hawkeye/releases/download/${HAWKEYE_VERSION}/${tarball}" \
+            "https://github.com/fast/hawkeye/releases/download/${HAWKEYE_VERSION}/${tarball}" \
             -o "${tarball}"
           echo "${HAWKEYE_SHA256}  ${tarball}" | sha256sum -c -
           mkdir -p "${HAWKEYE_INSTALL_DIR}"
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 553271e1..926a00ac 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ repos:
         stages: [pre-push]
         groups: [local-tools] # local-only; CI uses the `commit-signatures` job
 
-  # License headers: mirrors the korandoru/hawkeye CI check.
+  # License headers: mirrors the fast/hawkeye CI check.
   # Requires: cargo install hawkeye
   - repo: local
     hooks:
diff --git a/licenserc-md-header.toml b/licenserc-md-header.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 35ff9136..00000000
--- a/licenserc-md-header.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# Custom header style for Markdown files: HTML comment block matching our
-# existing <!-- ... --> header format (no indentation on body lines).
-[MARKDOWN_STYLE]
-firstLine = "<!--"
-endLine = "-->"
-beforeEachLine = ''
-afterEachLine = ''
-allowBlankLines = true
-multipleLines = true
-padLines = false
-firstLineDetectionPattern = '(\s|\t)*<!--.*$'
-lastLineDetectionPattern = '.*-->(\s|\t)*$'
diff --git a/licenserc.toml b/licenserc.toml
index 50de08d8..1e42e442 100644
--- a/licenserc.toml
+++ b/licenserc.toml
@@ -1,23 +1,15 @@
 ## hawkeye license-header enforcement configuration.
 ## Run locally: hawkeye check
-## Docs: https://github.com/korandoru/hawkeye
-##
-## Note: `!**/*.md` is a force-include that overrides hawkeye's built-in
-## default exclusion of *.md. It also overrides the positive excludes below
-## for .md files — there is no way to subsequently re-exclude a subset of
-## .md paths once the negation is in effect. In practice this is harmless
-## because hawkeye's git integration skips untracked directories, but any
-## tracked *.md file (e.g. in third_party/) would be required to carry a
-## copyright header.
+## Docs: https://github.com/fast/hawkeye
 
-inlineHeader = """
+[header]
+text = """
 Copyright © Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., or its affiliates.
 
 SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 """
 
-additionalHeaders = ["licenserc-md-header.toml"]
-
+[files]
 includes = [
   "**/*.rs",
   "**/*.py",
@@ -26,12 +18,12 @@ includes = [
 ]
 
 excludes = [
-  "!**/*.md",
   "target/**",
   ".claude/**",
   ".tmp-*/**",
   "third_party/**",
 ]
 
-[mapping.MARKDOWN_STYLE]
+[[rules]]
 extensions = ["md"]
+style_out = "xml"