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.
npx agentmods add instructions/rubyroidlabs/rails_api_keys/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rubyroidlabs/rails_api_keysWhat 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 | $0.00504 | $0.00504 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00252 | $0.00252 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00101 | $0.00101 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00050 | $0.00050 |
Grade A, and why
rails_api_keys AGENTS.md 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.
What it actually says
rails_api_keys — Agent Guide
Thin, reusable Rails engine for personal API keys. Host apps own UI, routes, and domain APIs.
Stack
- Ruby gem / Rails engine (
isolate_namespace RailsApiKeys) - Active Record model + install generator
- Auth concern for
ActionController::API(Bearer token)
Naming
Gem, require, and repo all use rails_api_keys. Module is RailsApiKeys.
gem "rails_api_keys", git: "…" # or path:
No custom require: needed.
Architecture (keep it thin)
In this gem
RailsApiKeys::ApiKey— create (return raw once), SHA-256 digest, soft revoke,read/read_writeRailsApiKeys::Authentication—authenticate_api_key!(Bearer + method-based permission),current_api_key/current_api_ownerhas_api_keys— owner opt-in macro (polymorphichas_many+ registry +create_api_key!); multiple models allowedRailsApiKeys.configure— optional overrides (token_prefix,owner_active)- Install generator (migration + initializer)
Not in this gem
- Key management UI, domain APIs, mailers, jobs, views, assets, session auth
Critical rules
- Do not reintroduce unused Rails scaffolds unless a real feature needs them.
- Do not put host-app business endpoints in the engine.
- Raw token is returned only from
create_api_key!/generate_for!; never store plaintext. - Permissions are immutable after create; revoke via soft
revoked_at. - Prefer single quotes;
# frozen_string_literal: trueon Ruby files. - Run
bundle exec rspecandbundle exec rubocopafter non-trivial changes.
Commands
bundle install
bundle exec rspec
bin/rubocop
Specs live under spec/ and boot spec/dummy (sqlite).
Where to look
- Project state:
.cursor/rules/context.mdc - Model:
app/models/rails_api_keys/api_key.rb - Auth:
lib/rails_api_keys/authentication.rb - Owner macro:
lib/rails_api_keys/owner.rb - Config:
lib/rails_api_keys/configuration.rb
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 61 lines · 504 tokens per session scan A e2162ba43239
rails_api_keys AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rubyroidlabs/rails_api_keys (10 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 504 tokens to every session, about $0.0025 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 2026-08-31.
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