best-practices

A set of rules for writing Flutter and Dart code, covering navigation, state management, language features, themes, web compatibility, and scrolling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when generating or reviewing Flutter code that should use GoRouter, Riverpod, Dart 3 features, theme values, and safe scrollable layouts.
Why use it?
It keeps generated code aligned with the project's chosen patterns and avoids common problems such as unsafe web code or shared state managed in widgets.

Cursor rule

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 rules/ofershap/flutter-best-practices/best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ofershap/flutter-best-practices
Per session 329 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 329 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00329 $0.00329
Opus 5 $0.00164 $0.00164
Sonnet 5 $0.00066 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00033 $0.00033

Measured 2d ago against content hash e3b04ee52c0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

rules/best-practices.mdc · 16 lines

What it actually says

Before generating Flutter or Dart code:

  1. Routing: Use GoRouter. Never use Navigator.push, Navigator.pop, or MaterialPageRoute. Use context.go, context.push, and declarative route configuration.
  2. Dart 3: If the task involves state handling, multiple variants, or grouped return values, use sealed classes with exhaustive switch and records. Do not generate long if/else chains or Map<String, dynamic> for structured data.
  3. State: For shared or app-level state, use Riverpod (StateNotifierProvider, AsyncNotifierProvider). Do not use setState for state shared across widgets.
  4. Const: Add const to widget constructors when all arguments are compile-time constants.
  5. Theme: Use Theme.of(context).colorScheme, Theme.of(context).textTheme. Do not hardcode colors, font sizes, or padding.
  6. Platform: If using dart:io (Directory, File, Platform), add a kIsWeb check or conditional import so code does not crash on web.
  7. Scrollables: Do not nest ListView, GridView, or SingleChildScrollView inside another scrollable. Use CustomScrollView with SliverList, SliverGrid, SliverToBoxAdapter.
  8. Context after async: After any await, check if (!context.mounted) return before using context (e.g. for Navigator, Theme, or routing).
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. 2d ago First seen · 16 lines · 329 tokens per session scan A e3b04ee52c0d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

best-practices is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ofershap/flutter-best-practices (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 329 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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.