zpa-application_segment-ba-onboard

zpa-application_segment-ba-onboard is a skill for Claude Code from zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server. It costs 117 tokens per session (2,740 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided setup for publishing a web application through Zscaler Private Access Browser Access. Browser Access lets authorised users open the application in a web browser without installing the Zscaler client software.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for onboarding browser-only web applications, including their connector and server groups, TLS certificate, application segment, and access policy.
Why use it?
It handles the connected resources needed for this type of publishing, rather than treating the web application as an isolated setting. This helps avoid missing certificates, connectors, or access rules.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the zscaler plugin — 42 skills, 20 commands, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit It is for onboarding browser-only web applications, including their connector and server groups, TLS certificate, application segment, and access policy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server/application_segment-ba-onboard
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server --skill application_segment-ba-onboard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zscaler, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 20 commands, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,740 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.
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 $0.00117 $0.02740
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01370
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00548
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00274

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7ce620060338, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zpa-application_segment-ba-onboard 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 2d 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.

skills/zpa/application_segment-ba-onboard/SKILL.md · 324 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 324 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ZPA: Onboard Browser Access Application

Keywords

browser access, ba application, clientless access, agentless zpa, web app publish, browser-only application, onboard browser access, no client connector, agentless access, ba app segment

Overview

Onboard a new Browser Access (BA) application in Zscaler Private Access. BA segments publish web applications to authorized users through the browser, without requiring Zscaler Client Connector. This skill walks through the full dependency chain — connector group → server group → segment group → BA TLS certificateBA application segment with apps_config → access policy rule.

Use this skill when: The admin explicitly mentions Browser Access, agentless access, clientless ZPA, or publishing a web app to users who do not have ZCC installed.

DO NOT use this skill when:

  • The admin wants a regular client-routed application segment (any TCP/UDP app reachable via ZCC) — use zpa-application_segment-onboard instead.
  • The admin asks about Privileged Remote Access (PRA) for SSH/RDP — that is a separate flow.

What makes BA different from a regular app segment

Concept Regular segment Browser Access segment
SDK / tool family zpa_*_application_segment zpa_*_application_segment_ba
Client requirement ZCC required Browser only
Per-app config block none common_apps_dto.apps_config is required
Per-app TLS cert n/a every published domain needs a certificate_id (a BA cert)
Typical ports any TCP/UDP almost always TCP 443 (HTTPS) or 80 (HTTP)
Access policy operand type APP (segment ID) APP (segment ID) — same

The single biggest source of BA onboarding failures is forgetting one of:

  1. The BA TLS certificate (certificate_id) for each published domain.
  2. Listing the same domain in both the segment's domain_names and inside apps_config[].domain.

Both are validated client-side by zpa_create_application_segment_ba so the API doesn't have to.

Read the full file on GitHub · 324 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. 2d ago First seen · 324 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A 7ce620060338

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zpa-application_segment-ba-onboard is a skill published in the GitHub repository zscaler/zscaler-mcp-server (50 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 2,740 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-07.

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