Ark DevSpace

A development setup for running Ark from a cloned source-code repository with DevSpace. DevSpace is a tool for deploying and developing applications in a Kubernetes cluster.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy Ark with `devspace deploy`, check its Kubernetes services and pods, and wait for the Ark components to become ready. It requires a cloned Ark repository and a running kind cluster.
Why use it?
It provides a documented way to test Ark pull requests or source changes in a local or development cluster. If DevSpace fails, the instructions require stopping and diagnosing that failure.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dwmkerr/claude-code-agent/ark-devspace
Any agent
npx skills add dwmkerr/claude-code-agent --skill ark-devspace
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dwmkerr/claude-code-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 604 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00012 $0.00604
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00060

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4c23bd457975, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Ark DevSpace scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

examples/ark/plugin/skills/ark-devspace/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ark DevSpace

Run Ark from a cloned repository using devspace for development/PR testing.

CRITICAL: Failure Behavior

If devspace fails, you MUST STOP and report the error. Do NOT try alternative approaches like ark-cli or npm install. DevSpace failures must be diagnosed and fixed.

When to use

  • Testing Ark pull requests
  • Running Ark from source code

Prerequisites

  • Ark repo cloned (e.g., /workspace/ark or /workspace/agents-at-scale-ark)
  • Kind cluster running (use kind-setup skill if needed)
  • Verify cluster: kubectl cluster-info

Steps

  1. Navigate to ark repo

    cd /workspace/ark  # or /workspace/agents-at-scale-ark
    
  2. Deploy with devspace (non-interactive)

    devspace deploy
    

    This deploys all components and exits. Check the exit code - if non-zero, STOP and troubleshoot.

  3. Verify deployment succeeded

    kubectl get pods -n ark-system
    kubectl get pods -n cert-manager
    
  4. Wait for pods to be ready

    kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready pods --all -n ark-system --timeout=300s
    
  5. Check services

    kubectl get svc -n ark-system
    

Troubleshooting

Check devspace logs

ls -la .devspace/logs/
cat .devspace/logs/default.log

Common failures

  1. "namespace not found" - Set namespace first

    devspace use namespace ark-system
    
  2. "image pull error" - Build images locally

    devspace build
    
  3. Cert-manager not ready - Wait for it

    kubectl wait --for=condition=Available deployment --all -n cert-manager --timeout=120s
    
  4. Cluster connectivity - Re-export kubeconfig

    kind export kubeconfig --name ark-cluster --internal
    

If devspace exits with error

  1. Check the exit code and error message
  2. Check .devspace/logs/ for detailed logs
  3. Check pod status: kubectl get pods -A
  4. Check events: kubectl get events -A --sort-by='.lastTimestamp'
  5. STOP and report the specific error - do not try workarounds

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 99 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 4c23bd457975

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Ark DevSpace is a skill published in the GitHub repository dwmkerr/claude-code-agent (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 604 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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