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

.claude/skills/issue-creation/SKILL.md

issue-creation is a skill for Claude Code from mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,398 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A research-first workflow for drafting new GitHub issues with a clear problem statement, duplicate checks, codebase investigation, and a testing approach. It asks clarifying questions and requires approval before creating the issue.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to report bugs, request features, or create work items that need supporting technical research.
Why use it?
It prevents vague, duplicate, or poorly researched issues from entering the project tracker.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

This is mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on agents-at-scale-ark itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything agents-at-scale-ark configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark/main/.claude/skills/issue-creation/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,398 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00058 $0.01398
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00699
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00280
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00140

Measured 6d ago against content hash d4610ea00fb5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

issue-creation 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/issue-creation/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Issue Creation

Create well-researched, problem-focused GitHub issues for mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark.

When to use this skill

Use when the user asks to create an issue, report a bug, request a feature, or track work. This skill enforces a research-first approach before creating any issue.

Process

Follow these steps in order. Do NOT skip steps.

Step 1: Ask clarifying questions

ALWAYS ask clarifying questions before doing any research or drafting. Never assume you have enough context. Use AskUserQuestion to gather:

  • What exactly is the problem? (Get specifics, not just a vague description)
  • Who is affected and how severely?
  • How is the problem reproduced? (for bugs)
  • What is the motivation or trigger? (for features)
  • Is there any urgency or deadline?
  • Are there any constraints the user already knows about?

Do NOT proceed to Step 2 until the user has answered your questions. If the user's initial description is detailed, still confirm your understanding by summarizing back and asking if anything is missing.

Step 2: Research the codebase

Before writing anything, investigate the relevant code:

  • Find the files, modules, and components involved
  • Understand the current behavior and architecture
  • Identify the scope and blast radius of the problem
  • Note relevant file paths and code references

Use Grep, Glob, Read, and the Explore agent as needed. Include key findings in the issue's Context section so reviewers can orient themselves without re-doing the research.

Important: The purpose of research is to understand the problem's scope and surface area — NOT to prescribe a solution. Do not let research findings leak into prescriptive implementation steps. Knowing which files are involved helps the implementer orient; telling them what to change in those files anchors them on a path that may be wrong.

Step 3: Check for duplicates and dependencies

Search existing issues thoroughly in the main repo:

gh search issues --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark "<keywords>" --json number,title,state,labels --jq '.[] | "\(.number) [\(.state)] \(.title)"'

gh issue list --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark --state open --json number,title,labels --jq '.[] | "\(.number) \(.title)"' | grep -i "<keyword>"

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 6d ago First seen · 129 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A d4610ea00fb5

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issue-creation is a skill published in the GitHub repository mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark (422 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,398 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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