agents-at-scale-ark: Skill for Claude Code

Ark Dependabot Management

Consolidate open Dependabot PRs into a single integration branch for unified review and merge.

Strategy

All open Dependabot PRs get merged into a single integration/dependabot branch which has one PR into main. This avoids CI churn from merging individual dependency bumps.

Pre-flight: Check for stale config

Before consolidating, verify all directories in .github/dependabot.yaml still exist:

yq '.updates[].directory // .updates[].directories[]' .github/dependabot.yaml | while read dir; do
  [ ! -d "$dir" ] && echo "STALE: $dir"
done

Remove stale entries before proceeding — they cause Dependabot workflow errors.

Consolidate Pull Requests

Preferred approach: Git merge

The fastest method is to merge each dependabot branch directly into a fix branch:

git checkout -b fix/build-consolidation origin/main

# For each dependabot PR branch:
git fetch origin <dependabot-branch>
git merge --no-edit origin/<dependabot-branch>

This is simpler than the GitHub API approach below, avoids needing --admin permissions, and lets you test all updates together locally before pushing.

Alternative approach: GitHub API

Use the API method when you need to keep individual PRs open for tracking, or when merging into the integration/dependabot branch.

Step 1: List open Dependabot PRs

gh pr list --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark --state open --author "app/dependabot" \
  --json number,title,headRefName --jq '.[] | "\(.number)\t\(.title)"'

Step 2: Check for existing integration branch and PR

EXISTING_PR=$(gh pr list --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark --state open \
  --head integration/dependabot --json number --jq '.[0].number // empty')

if [ -n "$EXISTING_PR" ]; then
  echo "Existing open PR: #${EXISTING_PR}"
fi

If no open PR exists, check if the branch exists and if there's a merged PR to reopen from:

BRANCH_EXISTS=$(gh api repos/mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark/git/ref/heads/integration/dependabot \
  --jq '.object.sha' 2>/dev/null || echo "")

MERGED_PR=$(gh pr list --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark --state merged \
  --head integration/dependabot --json number --jq '.[0].number // empty')