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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 4 active plugins, 76 skills, and 33 agents (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 76 specialized skills (23 core + 35 dev-team + 14 product planning + 4 technical writing)
• 33 specialized agents - 2 planning/analysis + 24 developer/reviewer + 4 product research + 3 technical writing
• Automating skill discovery - Skills load automatically at session start
• Preventing common failures - Built-in anti-patterns and mandatory checklists

🧭 Project Identity

Ring is Lerian-first, open-source-friendly. Design decisions prioritize the Lerian engineering team's daily needs while keeping the architecture clean and reusable for external adoption. This means:

• Lerian-specific skills stay active — Internal integrations and domain-specific workflows remain in the marketplace because the team uses them
• The architecture is universal — Skills, agents, and the plugin system work with any codebase or team
• Archival is usage-driven — Skills are archived when they stop being used, not because they're "too specific"

🤖 Specialized Agents

Planning & Analysis Agents (default plugin):

• ring:review-slicer - Review slicer (groups large multi-themed PRs into thematic slices for focused parallel review)
• ring:codebase-explorer - Deep architecture analysis (deep-analysis, complements built-in Explore)
• Use ring:reviewing-code skill to orchestrate parallel review workflow

Developer Agents (dev-team plugin):

• ring:backend-go - Go backend specialist for financial systems
• ring:backend-ts - TypeScript/Node.js backend specialist (Express, NestJS, Fastify)
• ring:bff-ts - BFF & React/Next.js frontend with Clean Architecture
• ring:ui-designer - Visual design specialist
• ring:frontend - Senior Frontend Engineer (React/Next.js)
• ring:devops - DevOps and infrastructure specialist
• ring:prompt-reviewer - Agent Quality Analyst
• ring:qa - Backend QA specialist (unit, integration, load, chaos)
• ring:qa-frontend - Frontend QA specialist (accessibility, visual, E2E, performance)
• ring:sre - Observability and reliability specialist
• ring:ui-engineer - UI component specialist (design systems, accessibility)
• ring:helm - Helm chart specialist (chart structure, security, Lerian conventions)
• ring:code-reviewer - Foundation review (architecture, code quality, design patterns)
• ring: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-reviewer - Nil/null safety review (traces pointer risks, missing guards, panic paths)
• ring:dead-code-reviewer - Dead code review (orphaned code detection, reachability analysis, dead dependency chains)
• ring:commons-reviewer - lib-commons package usage review (lifecycle, tenancy, http, idempotency, security, database, messaging, outbox; reinvented-wheel opportunities)
• ring:obs-reviewer - Conditional specialist for tracing, metrics, logging, runtime recovery, redaction, constants, and SafeGo implications
• ring:systemplane-reviewer - Conditional specialist for runtime config, hot-reload knobs, admin config, tenant-scoped settings, and systemplane imports
• ring:streaming-reviewer - Conditional specialist for business events, outbox, producers, broker publishing, CloudEvents, manifests, and catalogs
• ring:tenancy-reviewer - Multi-tenant usage review (lib-commons/multitenancy patterns, tenant isolation, JWT tenantId propagation)
• ring:perf-reviewer - Performance review (code hotspots, infra misconfigurations, Go/TypeScript/Python)