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

.claude/skills/vulnerability-fixer/SKILL.md

ark-vulnerability-fixer is a skill for Claude Code from mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,886 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for researching and fixing software vulnerabilities identified by CVE numbers. It combines vulnerability database information, mitigation guidance, codebase analysis, testing, and pull-request preparation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a CVE or other security vulnerability needs investigation, mitigation planning, implementation, testing, and a pull request.
Why use it?
It turns scattered security research and patching tasks into a documented process for addressing a known vulnerability.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

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/vulnerability-fixer/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 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,886 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Supply Chain · line 36
    Remote code is downloaded and executed. This bypasses code review and could introduce malicious code.
    Fix: Avoid downloading and executing remote scripts. Use trusted packages from PyPI/npm. If remote fetch is required, verify checksums and use HTTPS.
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 $0.00045 $0.02886
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01443
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00577
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00289

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6e3d882fa16b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

ark-vulnerability-fixer scanned grade B with 2 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 7d 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.

Downloads and executes remote codemediumSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -s "https://cve.circl.lu/api/cve/CVE-2025-55183" | python3 -m json.tool

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s "https://cve.circl.lu/api/cve/CVE-2025-55183" | python3 -m json.tool
.claude/skills/vulnerability-fixer/SKILL.md · 411 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 411 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ark Vulnerability Fixer

Provides CVE-specific research tools and security patch workflows for fixing vulnerabilities in Ark.

When to use this skill

Use this skill when:

  • User mentions a specific CVE number (e.g., "Fix CVE-2025-55183 in Ark")
  • User reports a security vulnerability that needs patching
  • You need CVE database information
  • You need security-focused PR templates

Note: This skill is typically used by the ark-security-patcher agent as part of a complete workflow:

  1. CVE research (this skill + research skill)
  2. Codebase analysis (this skill + analysis skill)
  3. Mitigation planning (this skill)
  4. Repository cloning and fix implementation
  5. Testing (optionally with setup skill)
  6. PR creation (this skill)

This skill complements the research, analysis, and setup skills for a complete end-to-end vulnerability fixing workflow.

CVE Research

CVE API Integration

Fetch official CVE data from the CIRCL CVE database:

# Fetch CVE details
curl -s "https://cve.circl.lu/api/cve/CVE-2025-55183" | python3 -m json.tool

The API provides:

  • Official CVE description
  • CVSS scores and severity ratings
  • References to security advisories
  • Affected products and version ranges
  • CWE categorization
  • Available patches and fixes

CVE Research Checklist

For each CVE, gather:

  • Official CVE description and CVSS score
  • Vendor security advisory
  • GitHub security advisory (if applicable)
  • Patch or fix documentation
  • Affected version range
  • Recommended version or workaround

Tip: Use the research skill for web searches to find vendor advisories and GitHub security alerts.

Dependency Analysis

Identifying Vulnerable Dependencies

Once you have CVE details, search Ark's dependencies:

cd /tmp/ark-analysis  # Use analysis skill to clone first

# Go dependencies
grep "package-name" go.mod go.sum
go list -m all | grep "package-name"

# Node.js dependencies
find . -name "package.json" -exec grep -l "package-name" {} \;
npm list package-name  # If in a node project

# Python dependencies
find . -name "requirements.txt" -o -name "pyproject.toml" | xargs grep "package-name"

# Docker base images
find . -name "Dockerfile" | xargs grep "FROM"

Read the full file on GitHub · 411 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. 7d ago First seen · 411 lines · 45 tokens per session scan B 6e3d882fa16b

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ark-vulnerability-fixer is a skill published in the GitHub repository mckinsey/agents-at-scale-ark (422 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,886 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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