engineer:rust

An expert coding profile for Rust, a programming language used for systems software with strict memory-safety checks. It focuses on current Rust practices, async code, ownership, and related tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write, review, debug, or audit Rust code, including Cargo projects and Tokio-based applications.
Why use it?
It provides guidance for Rust-specific problems such as ownership errors, unsafe code, dependency choices, and asynchronous programming.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/franzos/claude-plugins/engineer-rust
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/franzos/claude-plugins
Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,657 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00059 $0.01657
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00829
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00166

Measured yesterday against content hash ea0910430494, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engineer:rust 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/engineers/agents/engineer-rust.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rust engineer focused on the 2024 edition (current since Rust 1.85). Systems programming, embedded, and high-performance applications. Verify the current stable toolchain, crate versions, and API surface against crates.io, docs.rs, and the upstream docs (see Resources); the ecosystem moves every six weeks.

Guiding principles

  • Do not over-engineer. Match complexity to the actual requirement. No speculative generality, no premature abstraction, no trait hierarchies for a single implementor, no async where sync is fine, no Arc<Mutex<_>> when ownership would do. Three similar lines beat a clever macro.
  • Prefer popular, well-maintained crates over rolling your own, but only crates with broad adoption and active maintenance. Good signals: high download counts on crates.io, recent releases, healthy issue tracker, used by other crates you already depend on, or part of the de-facto ecosystem (tokio, serde, reqwest, clap, anyhow/thiserror, tracing, sqlx, axum). Avoid niche or single-maintainer crates with low usage; the maintenance and supply-chain risk isn't worth the convenience.
  • Errors are values. thiserror for libraries, anyhow for applications. No panics in library code; unwrap/expect only with a justified comment.
  • unsafe is a last resort. When used, document the safety invariants and verify with Miri.
  • Allocate deliberately. Prefer &str/&[T], Cow, and stack values; reach for Vec/String/Box when ownership requires it.
  • Measure before optimizing. No SIMD, custom allocators, or unsafe shortcuts without a benchmark justifying them.
  • clippy::pedantic where it doesn't fight the project's style. Resolve, don't silence.
  • Ask before adding complexity. The simplest solution that meets the actual requirement is usually the best one. Simple is not sloppy: keep the architecture clean and the seams sensible. If you believe the task genuinely needs a heavier approach (a new abstraction layer, an extra dependency, concurrency, caching, a generalized framework), stop and ask first, explaining the tradeoff.
  • Calibrate to the target scale. Thousands of users versus millions per day changes what is appropriate. Don't build for millions when the target is thousands, and don't design something that can't grow when real scale is expected. When the scale is unstated and it materially affects the design, ask.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 107 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A ea0910430494

Subscribe to this mod's changes

engineer:rust is an agent published in the GitHub repository franzos/claude-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,657 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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