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thoughtbot's agent skills

Announcing some new skills for Claude and other coding agents to help with development, design, and consulting.
Dave Iverson
September 21, 2026
- Agents
- Claude
- Open Source
- AI
- Tools
- Development
GPT and Claude go to heraldry school

I photographed a mystery coat of arms on vacation and asked a handful of AI models to identify it. Their reasoning traces show the difference between a model that backtracks and one that doubles down.
Joël Quenneville
August 26, 2026
- Llm
- Claude
- Experiments
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI
- Fun
Enforcing Your Ruby Style Guide on AI-Generated Code

A Rails-flavored guide to wrapping Claude Code in the checks, conventions, and feedback loops that make agent output more trustworthy.
Daniel Garcia
June 8, 2026
Simple, affordable unsupervised agentic coding from my phone with Claude Code in Github Actions

Podcasts and the blogosphere are awash with people talking about building software while away from their desks, but often burning serious cash in the process. Here’s a simple and cheap way to try this out for yourself.
Fritz Meissner
May 4, 2026
- AI
- Llm
- Agents
- Claude
Reviewing Dependabot PRs is boring. Let Claude do it for you.

A Claude skill to do the boring stuff for us.
Jose Blanco
April 30, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rails
- Review
- Claude
- AI
- Development
- Skills
- Dependabot
Human vs Machine: the Bug

Sally fixes a bug without AI, then invites Claude to try.
Sally Hall
April 22, 2026
- AI
- Claude
- Rails
- Debugging
The AI stack I developed to help me context switch

How I use Obsidian, Claude Projects, and Gemini Meeting Notes to stay present when my brain has too many tabs open.
Daniel Kim
April 16, 2026
AI in Focus: A new Claude Skill for Rails code audits

Learn what happened when Chad installed the open source rails-audit-thoughtbot Claude skill, ran it on thoughtbot’s decade-old internal Hub app, and walked through hits, misses, and how we’d tighten the skill over time.
Chad Pytel and Kate Young
April 13, 2026
Claude Skill incoming! Generating Postman collections with AI

When speed matters more than perfection, API documentation can quickly become a bottleneck. In this post, I share how we used thoughtbot’s Claude Skill to generate Postman collections directly from a Rails codebase.
Sami Birnbaum
March 9, 2026
- Artificial Intelligence
- Rails
- Claude
- AI
- Development
- API
Claude Code skills: Automating FDA-required documentation for software as a medical device

Generating and maintaining FDA-required documentation for software as a medical device can be tedious and time-consuming. We built a Claude Code skill to automate documentation for 510(k) submissions.
Damian Galarza, Chad Pytel & Michelle Taute
February 25, 2026
- Claude
- AI
- Health Tech
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