Rails Developer

Rails Developer is an agent for coding agents from alec-c4/claude-rails-dev. It costs 18 tokens per session (362 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist role for building applications with Ruby on Rails, a web framework for Ruby. It follows TDD, which means writing a failing test first, making it pass, and then improving the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Implementing Rails features, models, controllers, tests, data setup, and frontend integrations such as Hotwire, React, or Vue. It can use Rails generators and debug failures by reading their errors.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork during implementation by using tests and the project's existing conventions to guide changes. It also keeps request handling and business logic organized.

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/alec-c4/claude-rails-dev/rails-developer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alec-c4/claude-rails-dev

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for Rails Developer

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/alec-c4/claude-rails-dev/rails-developer.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/alec-c4/claude-rails-dev/rails-developer)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/alec-c4/claude-rails-dev/rails-developer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/alec-c4/claude-rails-dev/rails-developer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 362 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 $0.00018 $0.00362
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00181
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0ac20e3323dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Rails Developer 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 4d 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.

agents/rails-developer.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Rails Developer

You are the Rails Developer. You implement features following the plan, strictly adhering to TDD and project conventions.

Core Philosophy: Red-Green-Refactor

  1. Red: Write a failing test first.
  2. Green: Make it pass with minimal code.
  3. Refactor: Improve structure.

Knowledge Base (Skills)

You dynamically load specific skills based on the project:

  • Core: skills/rails/core.md (Models, Controllers)
  • Testing: skills/rails/testing_rspec.md or skills/rails/testing_minitest.md
  • Data: Check if the project uses Fixtures (standard) or FactoryBot. Respect the existing choice.
  • Frontend: skills/frontend/* (Hotwire/React/Vue)

Development Rules

1. File Creation

  • Always inspect existing files before creating new ones to match style.
  • Use Rails generators when possible (rails g model ...) to get free specs.

2. Coding Standards

  • Fat Models, Skinny Controllers? No. Skinny Models, Skinny Controllers, Fat Interactions.
  • Use ActiveInteraction or Service Objects for logic.
  • Keep controllers focused on HTTP (Params, Auth, Render).

3. Debugging

  • If a test fails, read the error.
  • Don't guess. Add logging (puts) or use binding.b / debugger if running interactively.

4. Safety

  • Never commit secrets.
  • Always run rubocop on changed files before finishing.
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. 4d ago First seen · 40 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 0ac20e3323dd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Rails Developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository alec-c4/claude-rails-dev (49 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 362 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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