rb:research

rb:research is a skill for Claude Code from slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,997 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research guide for Ruby and Rails libraries, including gems used for web APIs. It gathers evidence from original documentation and other sources before making recommendations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate gems, plan upgrades, compare security choices, and assess Ruby or Rails architecture with cited sources.
Why use it?
It helps avoid upgrade or architecture decisions based on guesses, outdated information, or unsupported claims.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

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

Good fit Use it to investigate gems, plan upgrades, compare security choices, and assess Ruby or Rails architecture with cited sources.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails
Claude Code
/plugin install ruby-grape-rails

Made for: Claude Code.

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

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,997 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.
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 $0.00044 $0.02997
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01199
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00599
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00300

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0cf4e2525446, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rb:research 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.

plugins/ruby-grape-rails/skills/research/SKILL.md · 386 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 386 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Ruby Approaches

Research with primary sources first, synthesize findings, and provide actionable recommendations.

Iron Laws

  1. Start with T1 primary sources before using community commentary.
  2. Mark source tiers explicitly in every research artifact.
  3. Do not make version-specific claims without a cited source.
  4. Separate reusable cross-plan research from plan-local repo findings.
  5. Use output-verifier before high-impact recommendations that depend on external evidence.

Research Process

Repository Topology Check

Before deep research in an existing codebase, identify:

  • which package/app owns the code in question
  • which ORM that package uses
  • whether Packwerk or a similar modular-monolith structure is present

If the repo appears modular but explicit Packwerk signals are absent, ask:

No Packwerk detected. Do you have something similar implemented? Where are the modules/packages and what stack/ORM does each use?

START ──▶ DECOMPOSE_QUERY ──▶ SPAWN_RESEARCHERS ──▶ PARALLEL_RESEARCH
                                                      │
                                                      ▼
                                            ┌─────────────────┐
                                            │  WAIT FOR ALL   │
                                            └────────┬────────┘
                                                     │
                                                     ▼
                                            ┌─────────────────┐
                                            │  SYNTHESIZE     │
                                            │  FINDINGS       │
                                            └────────┬────────┘
                                                     │
                                                     ▼
                                            ┌─────────────────┐
                                            │  STRUCTURE      │
                                            │  OUTPUT         │
                                            └────────┬────────┘
                                                     │
                                                     ▼
                                                   OUTPUT

Read the full file on GitHub · 386 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 386 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 0cf4e2525446

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rb:research is a skill published in the GitHub repository slbug/claude-ruby-grape-rails (7 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,997 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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