Apply best practices for Rails background jobs using simple orchestration, idempotency, and safe retries.

No licenceAuto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Rails Jobs

skills CLI
$ npx skills add marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills --skill rails-jobs -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills rails-jobs --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/rails-jobs .claude/skills/rails-jobs && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
rails-jobs
GitHub stars
724
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
521 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Apply best practices for Rails background jobs using simple orchestration, idempotency, and safe retries.

  • Debugging Active Job and queue-backed workflows
  • SKILL.md covers Defaults, Naming Convention, Good Patterns and Recurring & Maintenance, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Backend development

What it does

Rails Jobs is an agent skill from marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills. Apply best practices for Rails background jobs using simple orchestration, idempotency, and safe retries. Use when creating, refactoring, or debugging Active Job and queue-backed workflows.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Backend & APIs, covering Backend development and Background jobs. The repository describes itself as: Unofficial agent skills + reference guide that teach AI coding assistants to write Rails the 37signals way — extracted from Fizzy, Campfire, and DHH's code reviews.

When your agent uses it

  • Debugging Active Job and queue-backed workflows
  • Tasks that involve Backend development
  • Tasks that involve Background jobs

Example prompts

  • “/rails-jobs”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c58e7d5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are ruby).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Rails Jobs loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 521 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~50
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 521 words (~1,192 tokens).

“Use for background job design and review. Patterns from Campfire (Resque, 4 thin jobs) and Fizzy (Solid Queue, multi-queue).”

— opening of SKILL.md by marckohlbrugge
name
rails-jobs
disable-model-invocation
true

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/rails-jobs of marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c58e7d5

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Questions about Rails Jobs

What does Rails Jobs do?

Apply best practices for Rails background jobs using simple orchestration, idempotency, and safe retries. Rails Jobs is an agent skill from marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills. Apply best practices for Rails background jobs using simple orchestration, idempotency, and safe retries.

When should I use Rails Jobs?

Rails Jobs fits situations like: debugging Active Job and queue-backed workflows; tasks that involve Backend development; tasks that involve Background jobs.

How do I install Rails Jobs in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills --skill rails-jobs -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rails-jobs in marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills) into .claude/skills/rails-jobs in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Rails Jobs in Codex?

Run `npx skills add marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills --skill rails-jobs -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rails-jobs in marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills) into .agents/skills/rails-jobs in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Rails Jobs in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills --skill rails-jobs -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/rails-jobs, .gemini/skills/rails-jobs, .github/skills/rails-jobs and .opencode/skills/rails-jobs in your project.

What does Rails Jobs need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Rails Jobs is instructions for the agent only.

Does Rails Jobs access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Rails Jobs safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Rails Jobs use?

No licence was found for Rails Jobs or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Rails Jobs use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Rails Jobs?

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Who maintains Rails Jobs?

marckohlbrugge (a GitHub user) maintains it in marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills, which has 724 GitHub stars. The repository holds 8 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 9, 2026.

Source: marckohlbrugge/37signals-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.