riverpod-patterns

A set of rules for using Riverpod, a Flutter tool for managing application state, together with Flutter Hooks, which lets widgets reuse stateful behaviour.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while writing Flutter files that use hooks_riverpod or flutter_hooks. It guides provider selection, HookConsumerWidget usage, StateNotifier imports, auto-disposal, and related pitfalls.
Why use it?
It helps prevent common Dart and Flutter errors caused by choosing the wrong widget base class, provider type, import, or disposal setting.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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/sampaio-tech/flutter-core-modules/riverpod-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sampaio-tech/flutter-core-modules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 1,410 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 $0.00000 $0.01410
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00705
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00141

Measured yesterday against content hash 622195171cc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

riverpod-patterns 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.

.cursor/rules/riverpod-patterns.mdc · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Riverpod + Hooks Rules — flutter_core_modules

Package Imports

The project uses hooks_riverpod v3.x. StateNotifier APIs require the legacy import:

// For StateNotifier, StateNotifierProvider:
import 'package:hooks_riverpod/legacy.dart';

// For Provider, HookConsumerWidget, WidgetRef, etc.:
import 'package:hooks_riverpod/hooks_riverpod.dart';

// For hooks (useState, useEffect, useMemoized, etc.):
import 'package:flutter_hooks/flutter_hooks.dart';

Never use StateNotifier with the main hooks_riverpod.dart import — it is not exported in v3.x and will cause a compile error.

Widget Base Classes

Need Base Class
Riverpod + hooks HookConsumerWidget
Hooks only HookWidget
Riverpod only ConsumerWidget
Neither StatelessWidget
// CORRECT
class MyWidget extends HookConsumerWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context, WidgetRef ref) { ... }
}

// WRONG — StatelessWidget with hooks causes runtime error
class MyWidget extends StatelessWidget {
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final state = useState(false); // CRASH
  }
}

Provider Types

Use Case Type
Sync singleton (no dispose) Provider<T>
Sync, auto-dispose Provider.autoDispose<T>
Parameterized Provider.family<T, Arg>
Mutable state, global StateNotifierProvider<N, S>
Mutable state, scoped StateNotifierProvider.autoDispose<N, S>
Mutable state, parameterized StateNotifierProvider.autoDispose.family<N, S, Arg>

autoDispose Rules

Always use autoDispose: use cases, repository implementations, screen-scoped notifiers.

Never use autoDispose: global app-lifecycle providers — sharedPreferencesProvider, themeStateNotifierProvider, customerInfoStateNotifierProvider, hapticFeedbackStateNotifierProvider, wakelockStateNotifierProvider, inAppReviewStateNotifierProvider, launchFeedbackStateNotifierProvider.

ref.watch vs ref.read

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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 · 203 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 622195171cc2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

riverpod-patterns is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository sampaio-tech/flutter-core-modules (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,410 tokens. 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.