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

.claude/skills/issues/SKILL.md

ark-issues is a skill for Claude Code from mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark. It costs 60 tokens per session (2,146 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for finding, viewing, listing, and updating existing GitHub issues, including issues that track CVEs. A CVE is a public identifier for a known software security vulnerability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for vulnerability issues, inspect their details and status, or connect fixes to existing GitHub issues.
Why use it?
It helps developers locate related work and avoid losing security fixes among duplicate or disconnected issues.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

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/issues/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 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,146 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 $0.00060 $0.02146
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01073
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00429
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00215

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5d2f55180348, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ark-issues 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 5d 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/issues/SKILL.md · 301 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 301 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ark Issues

Manage GitHub issues for the Ark project (mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark).

When to use this skill

Use this skill when:

  • Searching for existing issues by keyword or CVE number
  • Finding issues related to security vulnerabilities
  • Creating new issues to track bugs or features
  • Viewing issue details and status
  • Listing open or closed issues

Note: This skill is commonly used by the ark-security-patcher agent to:

  1. Search for existing CVE-related issues before starting work
  2. Link PRs to existing issues with "Closes #N" syntax
  3. Create new issues for tracking discovered vulnerabilities

GitHub CLI Commands

Use the gh CLI tool for all issue operations:

Searching Issues

# Search issues by keyword
gh search issues --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark "CVE"

# Search for specific CVE numbers
gh search issues --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark "CVE-2025-55183"

# Search with filters
gh search issues --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark "security" --state open
gh search issues --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark "vulnerability" --label security

Listing Issues

# List all open issues
gh issue list --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark

# List issues with filters
gh issue list --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark --state open
gh issue list --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark --label bug
gh issue list --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark --assignee @me

# List with custom fields
gh issue list --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark --json number,title,state,labels

Viewing Issue Details

# View specific issue
gh issue view 123 --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark

# View with comments
gh issue view 123 --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark --comments

# View as JSON for parsing
gh issue view 123 --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark --json number,title,body,state,labels

Creating Issues

# Create issue interactively
gh issue create --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark

# Create with title and body
gh issue create --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark \
  --title "Security: Fix CVE-2025-XXXXX" \
  --body "Description of the vulnerability..."

# Create with labels
gh issue create --repo mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark \
  --title "Bug: API endpoint fails" \
  --body "Steps to reproduce..." \
  --label bug,priority:high

Read the full file on GitHub · 301 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. 5d ago First seen · 301 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 5d2f55180348

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ark-issues is a skill published in the GitHub repository mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark (422 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,146 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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