ring:managing-dev-cycle

ring:managing-dev-cycle is a skill for Cursor from LerianStudio/ring. It costs 85 tokens per session (1,474 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A cycle-management skill for checking the state of an active development cycle or cancelling it with confirmation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect or cancel a running, structured software development cycle.
Why use it?
It gives a clear view of the current phase, progress, confidence, and elapsed time, and records a cancellation when a cycle must stop.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: shipped in a Cursor plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ring-dev-team plugin — 35 skills, 24 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect or cancel a running, structured software development cycle.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lerianstudio/ring/managing-dev-cycle
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.

Any agent
npx skills add LerianStudio/ring --skill managing-dev-cycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LerianStudio/ring

Made for: Cursor.

Or install ring-dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 24 agents.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,474 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 115
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00085 $0.01474
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00590
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00295
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00147

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 31d34f989b99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ring:managing-dev-cycle 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 1mo 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.

dev-team/skills/managing-dev-cycle/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cycle Management

When to use

  • User wants to check the status of a running development cycle
  • User wants to cancel an active development cycle
  • Invoked with mode=status or mode=cancel

Skip when

  • No development cycle is active or was recently started
  • User is asking about general project status (not cycle-specific)

Unified skill for managing development cycle state. Provides two modes: status (read-only inspection) and cancel (state mutation with confirmation).

Mode Selection

This skill provides two modes selected by the mode parameter:

Mode Purpose
status Read-only — display cycle metrics
cancel Mutating — cancel the active cycle

If no mode is provided, default to status.


Shared: State File Discovery

Both modes read from the same state files. Check for an active cycle in this order:

  1. docs/ring:running-dev-cycle/current-cycle.json
  2. docs/ring:planning-backend-refactor/current-cycle.json

If neither file exists or both contain a terminal status (completed, cancelled), report that no cycle is active and exit with the appropriate "no cycle" message for the current mode.


Mode: Status

Display the current development cycle status.

Output

Displays:

  • Current cycle ID and start time
  • Current phase (if phases[] is present in state)
  • Epics: total, completed, in progress, pending
  • Current epic and gate being executed
  • Assertiveness score (if epics completed)
  • Elapsed time

Example Output

Development Cycle Status

Cycle ID: 2024-01-15-143000
Started: 2024-01-15 14:30:00
Status: in_progress
Phase: Phase 2 - Core flows

Epics:
  Completed: 2/5
  In Progress: 1/5 (Epic 2.3)
  Pending: 2/5

Current:
  Epic: Epic 2.3 - Implementar refresh token
  Gate 0→8→9 lean flow (ring:implementing-tasks)
  Iterations: 1

Metrics (completed epics):
  Average Assertiveness: 89%
  Total Duration: 1h 45m

State file: docs/ring:running-dev-cycle/current-cycle.json (or docs/ring:planning-backend-refactor/current-cycle.json)

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 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. 1mo ago First seen · 194 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 31d34f989b99

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ring:managing-dev-cycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository LerianStudio/ring (218 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,474 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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