generation

An interface for running AI text generations and creating embeddings, either immediately or as background jobs. Embeddings are numerical representations of text used by software for tasks such as similarity or search.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to call AI generation or embedding methods directly, or schedule them through Active Job in a Ruby on Rails-style application.
Why use it?
It lets an application choose between waiting for a result now and placing work in a background queue. Background jobs can use the application's configured job system, such as Sidekiq or Resque.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/activeagents/activeagent/generation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/activeagents/activeagent
Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 983 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00021 $0.00983
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00197
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00098

Measured yesterday against content hash 94af42ac339e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

generation 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 yesterday.

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.

docs/agents/generation.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{{ $frontmatter.title }}

Execute AI generations synchronously or asynchronously using ActiveAgent's generation methods.

Synchronous

Execute immediately and return the response:

<<< @/../test/docs/agents/generation_examples_test.rb#synchronous_generation_basic{ruby:line-numbers}

Use prompt_now (alias: generate_now) for generations or embed_now for embeddings.

Asynchronous

Queue for background execution using Active Job:

<<< @/../test/docs/agents/generation_examples_test.rb#asynchronous_generation_basic{ruby:line-numbers}

<<< @/../test/docs/agents/generation_examples_test.rb#asynchronous_generation_options{ruby:line-numbers}

Use prompt_later (alias: generate_later) for generations or embed_later for embeddings. Background jobs run through ActiveAgent::GenerationJob and respect your Active Job configuration.

Configure queue name and adapter:

<<< @/../test/docs/agents/generation_examples_test.rb#background_job_configuration{ruby:line-numbers}

Jobs use your Active Job adapter (Sidekiq, Resque, etc.).

Interfaces

Direct Generation

Generate without defining action methods:

<<< @/../test/docs/agents/generation_examples_test.rb#direct_generation_basic{ruby:line-numbers}

Parameterized Generation

Pass parameters to action methods:

<<< @/../test/docs/agents/generation_examples_test.rb#parameterized_generation_agent{ruby:line-numbers}

<<< @/../test/docs/agents/generation_examples_test.rb#parameterized_generation_usage{ruby:line-numbers}

Action-Based Generation

Define reusable actions:

<<< @/../test/docs/agents/generation_examples_test.rb#action_based_generation_agent{ruby:line-numbers}

<<< @/../test/docs/agents/generation_examples_test.rb#action_based_generation_usage{ruby:line-numbers}

Inspecting Before Execution

Access prompt properties before generating:

<<< @/../test/docs/agents/generation_examples_test.rb#inspecting_before_execution{ruby:line-numbers}

This is useful for debugging, testing, or conditional execution.

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. yesterday First seen · 131 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 94af42ac339e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

generation is an agent published in the GitHub repository activeagents/activeagent (971 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 983 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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