rb:investigate

rb:investigate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails. It costs 47 tokens per session (898 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured root-cause investigation workflow for Ruby, Rails, and Grape bugs whose cause is not known.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace failing routes, transactions, Redis or background-job behavior, and verification results, then choose the safest next development step.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with reproduction, evidence gathering, and checks across requests, data, background jobs, logs, and related systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the ruby-grape-rails plugin — 52 skills, 19 agents, 17 hooks shipped together

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/slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails/investigate
Any agent
npx skills add slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails --skill investigate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ruby-grape-rails, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 19 agents, 17 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 898 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 $0.00047 $0.00898
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00090

Measured 5d ago against content hash 981df9137241, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rb:investigate 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 5d 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.

plugins/ruby-grape-rails/skills/investigate/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Investigate Ruby Bugs

Run a structured investigation instead of guessing.

STEP 0: Read the investigation discipline references

Read ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/discipline.md and ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/error-patterns.md. Apply the verify-loop discipline + error-classification rubric as the canonical procedure.

Investigation Tracks

  • request path and route trace
  • data and transaction analysis
  • background job / Redis analysis
  • verification and reproduction loop

Default Tools

  • bundle exec rspec path/to/spec.rb:LINE or bin/rails test
  • bundle exec rails runner
  • psql for SQL inspection
  • redis-cli for queue/cache inspection
  • app logs and Sidekiq logs

Output

Write a short investigation report with:

  • observed behavior
  • likely root cause
  • confirming evidence
  • safest next step (/rb:plan or /rb:quick)

Agent Dispatch

This is a skill (/rb:investigate), not an agent. Do NOT spawn investigate or rb-investigate via the Agent tool. For agent-based deep investigation, use deep-bug-investigator (subagent_type: "ruby-grape-rails:deep-bug-investigator"). When spawning, pass an explicit output path in the prompt (.claude/investigations/deep-bug-investigator/{slug}-{datesuffix}.md); the agent writes its findings to that file and returns a ≤300-word chat summary. Read the file for the full report.

If the agent's return text matches the pause signature in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/agent-resume.md, follow that protocol to resume the agent before treating the artifact as missing.

Gotchas

  • Re-probing ruled-out hypotheses. Check ## Ruled Out scratchpad section FIRST. Don't re-run grep / Read on file already eliminated.
  • "Looks like X" without backtrace. Stack frame top-to-bottom is the only acceptable evidence for "the cause is in module X". Pattern matching against error message text is hypothesis, not evidence.
  • Premature root-cause naming. State observed symptoms before hypothesizing cause. "Test fails on line 42 with NameError" is fact; "the bug is in Y constant" is hypothesis until reproduced.
  • Skipping reproduction step. Always write a minimal failing spec before any code change. Cannot reproduce → no root cause.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 5d ago First seen · 89 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 981df9137241

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rb:investigate is a skill published in the GitHub repository slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 898 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 2026-08-31.

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