ruby-version-manager

A project-start helper for Ruby applications that detects the required Ruby version manager and project version. A version manager selects the Ruby installation used by a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before running Ruby tools such as Bundler, Rake, Rails, or RSpec when the project has a Gemfile, .ruby-version, or .tool-versions file.
Why use it?
It prevents commands from running with the wrong Ruby version, which can cause dependency or compatibility errors.

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/st0012/ruby-skills/ruby-version-manager
Any agent
npx skills add st0012/ruby-skills --skill ruby-version-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/st0012/ruby-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,394 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 $0.00049 $0.01394
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00697
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00139

Measured 2d ago against content hash a8488b1c1d6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ruby-version-manager 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (detect-all-managers.sh, detect.sh, set-preference.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-skills/skills/ruby-version-manager/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ruby Version Manager Skill

Detects and configures Ruby version managers for proper environment setup.

When to Use

Run detect.sh IMMEDIATELY when:

  • Starting work in a directory with Gemfile, .ruby-version, or .tool-versions
  • Before your first Ruby command (ruby, bundle, gem, rake, rails, rspec, etc.)
  • When switching between Ruby projects

Do NOT wait for commands to fail or user requests. Proactive detection prevents version mismatch errors.

Always chain activation with commands: ACTIVATION_COMMAND && ruby_command

Usage

Step 1: Run detect.sh

Run detect.sh from this skill's directory (path provided by session-start hook).

Step 2: Parse Output

The script outputs key=value pairs:

VERSION_MANAGER=rbenv
PROJECT_RUBY_VERSION=3.2.0
VERSION_AVAILABLE=true
ACTIVATION_COMMAND=eval "$(rbenv init -)"

Step 3: Execute Ruby Commands

Chain ACTIVATION_COMMAND with your Ruby command:

eval "$(rbenv init -)" && bundle install
eval "$(rbenv init -)" && bundle exec rspec

Run detect.sh once per project session; reuse ACTIVATION_COMMAND for subsequent commands.

Output Variables

Variable Description
VERSION_MANAGER Detected: shadowenv, chruby, rbenv, rvm, asdf, rv, mise, or none
VERSION_MANAGER_PATH Installation path
PROJECT_RUBY_VERSION Version required by project
PROJECT_VERSION_SOURCE Source file (.ruby-version, .tool-versions, .mise.toml, Gemfile)
RUBY_ENGINE Implementation (ruby, truffleruby, jruby)
INSTALLED_RUBIES Comma-separated available versions
VERSION_AVAILABLE true/false - whether requested version is installed
ACTIVATION_COMMAND Shell command to activate the manager
SYSTEM_RUBY_VERSION System Ruby (when VERSION_MANAGER=none)
WARNING Environment warnings
NEEDS_USER_CHOICE true when multiple managers detected without preference
AVAILABLE_MANAGERS List of detected managers (when NEEDS_USER_CHOICE=true)
NEEDS_VERSION_CONFIRM true when no version specifier found
SUGGESTED_VERSION Latest installed Ruby (when NEEDS_VERSION_CONFIRM=true)

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 144 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A a8488b1c1d6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ruby-version-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository st0012/ruby-skills (125 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,394 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 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

next-cache-components-adoption

Turn on Cache Components in a Next.js app and resolve the blocking routes it surfaces. Use when the user wants to enable, adopt, or migrate to Cache Components, flip the cacheComponents flag, work through a flood of blocking-prerender / instant validation errors, run the cache-components-instant-false codemod, or…

vercel/next.js · 95 tokens

babysit-pr

Babysit a GitHub pull request after creation by continuously polling review comments, CI checks/workflow runs, and mergeability state until the PR is merged/closed or user help is required. Diagnose failures, retry likely flaky failures up to 3 times, auto-fix/push branch-related issues when appropriate, and keep…

openai/codex · 114 tokens

imagegen

Generate or edit raster images when the task benefits from AI-created bitmap visuals such as photos, illustrations, textures, sprites, mockups, or transparent-background cutouts. Use when Codex should create a brand-new image, transform an existing image, or derive visual variants from references, and the output…

openai/codex · 113 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens

next-cache-components-optimizer

Drive a Next.js route to instant navigation by setting up an agentic loop, under Cache Components / PPR, on initial load (hard navigation) and client-side navigation (soft navigation). Encode the goal as a failing @next/playwright instant() e2e and work it to green, one verified route at a time; the shipped test then…

vercel/next.js · 170 tokens