flutter_best_practices

flutter_best_practices is a cursor rule for Cursor from MoritzMessner/flutter-cursor-rules. It costs 23 tokens per session (497 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of coding rules for Flutter, Google's toolkit for building mobile, web, and desktop apps with Dart. It covers how to organize views, ViewModels, repositories, failed operations, asynchronous work, and generated data models.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while designing or reviewing Flutter code, especially code that uses ViewModels, asynchronous operations, Result values, and generated models.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common Flutter problems such as putting business logic in screens, hiding loading or error states, or leaving resources undisposed.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it while designing or reviewing Flutter code, especially code that uses ViewModels, asynchronous operations, Result values, and generated models.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/moritzmessner/flutter-cursor-rules/flutter_best_practices
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MoritzMessner/flutter-cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 497 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00023 $0.00497
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00199
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00050

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7c82b1264703, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flutter_best_practices 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 2mo ago.

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.

.cursor/rules/flutter_best_practices.mdc · 44 lines

What it actually says

✅ Best Practices

DO's

  • ✅ Use Result for all operations that can fail.
  • ✅ Wrap async operations in Commands to handle loading/error states.
  • ✅ Keep views simple; delegate logic to ViewModels.
  • ✅ Use private fields with public getters in ViewModels to protect state.
  • ✅ Call notifyListeners() after state changes in ViewModels.
  • ✅ Handle all error cases explicitly (e.g., using switch on Result).
  • ✅ Use const constructors for widgets and models where possible.
  • ✅ Dispose ViewModels and streams when no longer needed.
  • ✅ Use Code Generation for models (freezed) and serialization (json_serializable) to reduce boilerplate and ensure type safety.

DON'Ts

  • ❌ Don't put business logic in views.
  • ❌ Don't call repositories directly from views; go through the ViewModel.
  • ❌ Don't import UI code in ViewModels (no flutter/material.dart unless absolutely necessary for non-UI types, but generally avoid).
  • ❌ Don't throw exceptions in repositories; return Result.error instead.
  • ❌ Don't forget to handle loading states in the UI.
  • ❌ Don't use StatefulWidget if the state can be managed by the ViewModel (unless it's purely ephemeral UI state like animation controllers).
  • ❌ Don't create ViewModels inside build method.

💡 Tips for Success

  1. Start Simple: Don't over-engineer.
  2. Be Consistent: Stick to the patterns (Command, Result, MVVM).
  3. Write Tests: Catch violations early.
  4. Refactor Incrementally: Don't try to fix everything at once.
  5. Focus on Value: Architecture supports the product.

🔄 Migration Guide (Summary)

  1. Extract Data Layer: Create repositories, move API calls there.
  2. Implement Patterns: Add Command/Result patterns.
  3. Refine ViewModels: Move logic from Views to ViewModels.
  4. Clean Up Models: Separate Domain vs Data (DTO) models.
  5. Add Tests: Verify behavior.
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. 2mo ago First seen · 44 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 7c82b1264703

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flutter_best_practices is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MoritzMessner/flutter-cursor-rules (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 497 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.