rails-activity-timeline

rails-activity-timeline is a skill for Claude Code from zarpay/rails-template. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,556 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Rails feature for recording events about application records in a shared activity timeline, including changes, comments, attachments, and status updates. Rails is a framework for building web applications, while Turbo Streams update pages as events happen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add audit trails, parent timelines that include child-record events, configurable event appearance, and optional summaries of changes.
Why use it?
It provides one place to see what happened to an item and can keep that timeline updated while people use the application.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to add audit trails, parent timelines that include child-record events, configurable event appearance, and optional summaries of changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zarpay/rails-template/rails-activity-timeline
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zarpay/rails-template --skill rails-activity-timeline
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zarpay/rails-template

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,556 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 $0.00041 $0.01556
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00778
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00156

Measured 10d ago against content hash 295288883cfd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rails-activity-timeline 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 10d 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.

files/.claude/skills/rails-activity-timeline/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rails Activity Timeline

Add a polymorphic activity timeline with live Turbo Stream updates to any Rails model. Track field changes, status transitions, comments, attachments, and more with configurable icons and colors per action type.

When to Use This Skill

Invoke this skill when:

  • Adding an activity/audit timeline to any Rails model
  • Tracking field changes, status transitions, comments, or attachments
  • Displaying live-updating activity feeds via Turbo Streams
  • Auto-logging lifecycle events on child/associated models
  • Building activity feeds with configurable icons and colors

Architecture Overview

The system is built around four components:

  1. ActivityEvent model (polymorphic) — the core event record
  2. ActivityTrackable concern — auto-logs child model lifecycle events on a parent's timeline
  3. Shared timeline partial — renders a vertical timeline with Turbo Stream live updates
  4. Display configuration — icon SVG path + accent color per action type, kept in the model

Key Associations (on ActivityEvent)

belongs_to :trackable, polymorphic: true            # required — parent entity whose timeline this belongs to
belongs_to :subject, polymorphic: true, optional: true  # related entity being acted upon
belongs_to :user, optional: true                     # who performed the action

Generic Action Set

ACTIONS = %w[
  created updated destroyed
  field_updated status_changed
  comment_added
  attachment_added attachment_removed
  assigned unassigned
  relationship_added relationship_removed
  tag_added tag_removed
].freeze

Add domain-specific actions as needed (e.g., published, approved, merged). Just add them to ACTIONS and the DISPLAY hash.

Core Patterns

1. Setup from Scratch

Migration, full ActivityEvent model, ActivityTrackable concern, and prerequisites.

See: references/setup.md

2. Turbo Stream Broadcasting

Stream naming convention, broadcast methods, partial routing, shared timeline partial, and event partial.

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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. 10d ago First seen · 209 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 295288883cfd

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rails-activity-timeline is a skill published in the GitHub repository zarpay/rails-template (9 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,556 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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