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💍 The Ring - Skills Library for AI Agents

Proven engineering practices, enforced through skills.

Ring is a comprehensive skills library and workflow system for AI agents that transforms how AI assistants approach software development. Currently implemented as a Claude Code plugin marketplace with 6 active plugins and 89 skills (see .claude-plugin/marketplace.json for current versions), the skills themselves are agent-agnostic and can be used with any AI agent system. Ring provides battle-tested patterns, mandatory workflows, and systematic approaches across the entire software delivery value chain.

✨ Why Ring?

Without Ring, AI assistants often:

• Skip tests and jump straight to implementation
• Make changes without understanding root causes
• Claim tasks are complete without verification
• Forget to check for existing solutions
• Repeat known mistakes

Ring solves this by:

• Enforcing proven workflows - Test-driven development, systematic debugging, proper planning
• Providing 89 specialized skills (22 core + 29 dev-team + 15 product planning + 7 FinOps regulatory + 7 technical writing + 9 PMO)
• 38 specialized agents - 10 review/planning + 12 developer + 4 product research + 3 FinOps regulatory + 3 technical writing + 6 PMO
• Automating skill discovery - Skills load automatically at session start
• Preventing common failures - Built-in anti-patterns and mandatory checklists

🤖 Specialized Agents

Review & Planning Agents (default plugin):

• ring:code-reviewer - Foundation review (architecture, code quality, design patterns)
• ring:business-logic-reviewer - Correctness review (domain logic, requirements, edge cases)
• ring:security-reviewer - Safety review (vulnerabilities, OWASP, authentication)
• ring:test-reviewer - Test quality review (coverage, edge cases, assertions, test anti-patterns)
• ring:nil-safety-reviewer - Nil/null safety review (traces pointer risks, missing guards, panic paths)
• ring:consequences-reviewer - Ripple effect review (traces how changes propagate beyond modified files - caller chains, consumer contracts, downstream breakage)
• ring:dead-code-reviewer - Dead code review (orphaned code detection, reachability analysis, dead dependency chains)
• ring:review-slicer - Review slicer (groups large multi-themed PRs into thematic slices for focused parallel review)
• ring:write-plan - Implementation planning agent
• ring:codebase-explorer - Deep architecture analysis (deep-analysis, complements built-in Explore)
• Use /ring:codereview command to orchestrate parallel review workflow

Developer Agents (dev-team plugin):

• ring:backend-engineer-golang - Go backend specialist for financial systems
• ring:backend-engineer-typescript - TypeScript/Node.js backend specialist (Express, NestJS, Fastify)
• ring:devops-engineer - DevOps infrastructure specialist
• ring:frontend-bff-engineer-typescript - BFF & React/Next.js frontend with Clean Architecture
• ring:frontend-designer - Visual design specialist
• ring:frontend-engineer - Senior Frontend Engineer (React/Next.js)
• ring:prompt-quality-reviewer - Agent Quality Analyst
• ring:qa-analyst - Quality assurance specialist
• ring:qa-analyst-frontend - Frontend QA specialist (accessibility, visual, E2E, performance)
• ring:sre - Site reliability engineer (monitoring, alerting, SLOs)
• ring:ui-engineer - UI component specialist (design systems, accessibility)
• ring:helm-engineer - Helm chart specialist (chart structure, security, Lerian conventions)

Standards Compliance: All dev-team agents include a ## Standards Compliance output section with conditional requirement:

• Optional when invoked directly or via ring:dev-cycle
• MANDATORY when invoked from ring:dev-refactor (triggered by **MODE: ANALYSIS ONLY** in prompt)

When mandatory, agents load Ring standards via WebFetch and produce comparison tables with:

• Current Pattern vs Expected Pattern
• Severity classification (Critical/High/Medium/Low)
• File locations and migration recommendations

See dev-team/docs/standards/*.md for standards source. Cross-references: CLAUDE.md (Standards Compliance section), dev-team/skills/dev-refactor/SKILL.md

Product Research Agents (ring-pm-team plugin):

• ring:repo-research-analyst - Repository structure and codebase analysis
• ring:best-practices-researcher - Industry best practices research
• ring:framework-docs-researcher - Framework documentation research
• ring:product-designer - Product design and UX research

Technical Writing Agents (ring-tw-team plugin):