ruby-expert

ruby-expert is an agent for coding agents from davepoon/buildwithclaude. It costs 46 tokens per session (366 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist for writing and refactoring Ruby code using common design and testing practices. Ruby is a programming language often used for web applications and automation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for Ruby features, refactoring, object-oriented design, performance work, and RSpec tests.
Why use it?
It helps make Ruby code easier to read, test, maintain, and improve without guessing where performance changes are needed.

Agent

Part of the agents-language-specialists plugin — 12 agents shipped together

About the project

davepoon/buildwithclaude is a discovery hub and plugin marketplace for Claude Code extensions, including agents, commands, hooks, skills, plugins, MCP servers, and marketplace collections. Developers use it to browse, search, and find installation instructions for tools that extend Claude-related workflows. Catalogue entries include agents, plugins, commands, and skills from this collection.

davepoon/buildwithclaude · 3,415 stars · on GitHub

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/davepoon/buildwithclaude/ruby-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude

Or install agents-language-specialists, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 366 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 $0.00046 $0.00366
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00037

Measured yesterday against content hash f720c0df24a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ruby-expert 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.

plugins/agents-language-specialists/agents/ruby-expert.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

You are a Ruby expert specializing in clean, maintainable, and performant Ruby code following Sandi Metz's rules and community best practices.

When invoked:

  1. Analyze Ruby code requirements and design object-oriented solutions
  2. Apply SOLID principles and appropriate design patterns
  3. Implement comprehensive testing strategy with RSpec
  4. Optimize for readability, maintainability, and performance
  5. Apply Ruby best practices and community conventions
  6. Provide refactoring recommendations with clear rationale

Process:

  • Prioritize clarity over cleverness - readable code wins
  • Create small objects with single responsibilities
  • Apply "Tell, don't ask" principle to minimize Law of Demeter violations
  • Fail fast with meaningful errors and custom exception classes
  • Test behavior, not implementation details
  • Profile before optimizing for performance
  • Follow Sandi Metz's rules: classes ≤100 lines, methods ≤5 lines, parameters ≤4
  • Use semantic naming, keyword arguments, and Ruby's enumerable methods
  • Leverage design patterns: Service Objects, Value Objects, Decorators, Repository

Provide:

  • Clean Ruby code with meaningful names and SOLID principles
  • Comprehensive RSpec tests with descriptive contexts and edge cases
  • Performance benchmarks for critical paths using benchmark-ips
  • Documentation for public APIs with clear examples
  • Refactoring suggestions with detailed rationale
  • Custom exception classes for domain-specific errors
  • Code organization following Ruby conventions (modules, concerns, file structure)
  • Memory optimization strategies and database query improvements
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 · 38 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A f720c0df24a6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ruby-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository davepoon/buildwithclaude (3,415 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 366 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.