A helper for obtaining an OAuth access token from the correct OpenShift cluster when several cluster contexts are configured. OpenShift is a platform for running containerised applications.

It helps authenticate API requests, verify access to a selected cluster, and safely run commands against OpenShift services.

It reduces authentication mistakes when commands need to work with different clusters.

oc-auth — Skill for Claude Code by openshift-eng

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.

Any agent

npx skills add openshift-eng/ai-helpers --skill oc-auth

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openshift-eng/ai-helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ci, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 21 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,885 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00021	$0.01885
Opus 5	$0.00010	$0.00942
Sonnet 5	$0.00004	$0.00377
Haiku 4.5	$0.00002	$0.00188

Measured 6d ago against content hash aa8fa7976661, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

oc-auth scanned grade C 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (curl_with_token.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Reaches for credential fileshighPrivilege escalation

SSH keys, cloud credentials, git-credentials, .npmrc, /etc/shadow: reading these is how a config file becomes a credential leak.

The `oc` CLI maintains multiple cluster contexts in `~/.kube/config`. When a user runs `oc login` to different clusters, each login creates a separate context. This skill:

Makes network callslowCapability

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

The skill provides a single `curl_with_token.sh` script that wraps curl and automatically handles OAuth token retrieval and injection, preventing accidental token exposure.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

OC Authentication Helper — 95% identical, 6 lines differ

plugins/ci/skills/oc-auth/SKILL.md · 208 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 208 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OC Authentication Helper

This skill provides a centralized way to retrieve OAuth tokens from specific OpenShift clusters when multiple cluster contexts are configured in the user's kubeconfig.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill whenever you need to:

Get an OAuth token for API authentication from a specific OpenShift cluster
Verify authentication to a specific cluster
Work with multiple OpenShift cluster contexts simultaneously

This skill is used by all commands that need to authenticate with OpenShift clusters:

ask-sippy command (DPCR cluster)
trigger-periodic, trigger-postsubmit, trigger-presubmit commands (app.ci cluster)
query-job-status command (app.ci cluster)

The skill provides a single curl_with_token.sh script that wraps curl and automatically handles OAuth token retrieval and injection, preventing accidental token exposure.

Due to a known Claude Code bug with git-installed marketplace plugins:

When referencing files from this skill (scripts, configuration files, etc.), you MUST:

Always use the "Base directory" path provided at the top of this skill prompt
Never assume skills are located in ~/.claude/plugins/
Construct full absolute paths by combining the base directory with the relative file path

Example:

❌ WRONG: ~/.claude/plugins/ci/skills/oc-auth/curl_with_token.sh
✅ CORRECT: Use the base directory shown above + /curl_with_token.sh

If you see "no such file or directory" errors, verify you're using the base directory path, not the assumed marketplace cache location.

Prerequisites

oc CLI Installation
- Check if installed: which oc
- If not installed, provide instructions for the user's platform
- Installation guide: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/latest/cli_reference/openshift_cli/getting-started-cli.html
User Authentication
- User must be logged in to the target cluster via browser-based authentication
- Each oc login creates a new context in the kubeconfig

Read the full file on GitHub · 208 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

6d ago First seen · 208 lines · 21 tokens per session scan C aa8fa7976661

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oc-auth is a skill published in the GitHub repository openshift-eng/ai-helpers (116 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,885 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (reaches for credential files, 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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