rails-stack-profiles

A skill that identifies two independent choices in a Rails application: where complex business logic lives and whether the app returns web pages or an API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning Rails architecture or choosing advice for server-rendered HTML, JSON APIs, models, concerns, or service objects.
Why use it?
It gives other guidance the right project context without forcing every recommendation to cover every possible Rails setup.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/ag0os/rails-dev-plugin/rails-stack-profiles
Any agent
npx skills add ag0os/rails-dev-plugin --skill rails-stack-profiles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ag0os/rails-dev-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,227 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 $0.00092 $0.01227
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00123

Measured 2d ago against content hash b1b751de9dcc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rails-stack-profiles 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/rails-stack-profiles/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rails Stack Axes

Resolve a project's architecture once per session, as two independent binary axes. Other skills consume the resolved axes to load one flat, branch-free guidance file each — they never carry inline omakase / service-oriented conditionals.

See axis-a.md and axis-b.md for characteristic patterns and code per axis value.

The Two Axes

A project is not one of three profiles. It is one value on each of two axes:

Axis Values Question it answers
A — logic placement native | extracted Where does non-trivial business logic live?
B — delivery html | api Does the surface render HTML or serve JSON?
  • native — logic lives in models, concerns, and POROs. The Rails-omakase way. Callbacks are acceptable for simple side effects.
  • extracted — service/command objects are the default home for non-trivial logic. Common in larger teams and complex domains.
  • html — server-rendered views, Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus).
  • api — headless JSON, serializers, no app/views/ (mailer views aside).

The axes are independent. All four combinations are valid, including native + api (a Rails 8 omakase-style API-only app — a combination the old three-profile enum could not express).

The legacy names map cleanly: omakase = native + html, service-oriented = extracted + html, api-first = extracted + api.

What is NOT an axis

Test framework, test data strategy, job backend, cache store, and auth library are orthogonal project facts, not architecture axes. A project with extracted services can still use Minitest; an omakase app can run Sidekiq. Inferring these from architecture is the central mistake this restructure removes.

Detect them directly via the project-conventions fingerprint. Skills consume those fingerprint fields; they never branch on a "profile" for them.

Detecting Axis A — logic placement

Signal Points to
app/services/ with ~5+ files extracted
Custom ApplicationService / BaseService base class extracted
gem "dry-monads", gem "interactor", gem "trailblazer" extracted
app/services/ absent or near-empty native
Domain logic in models + app/models/concerns/ native
Callbacks orchestrating multi-step workflows native
POROs for operations, often in app/models/ native

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 94 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A b1b751de9dcc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rails-stack-profiles is a skill published in the GitHub repository ag0os/rails-dev-plugin (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,227 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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