dependencies

A Rust dependency-management rule for projects that contain multiple related packages, known as a workspace, as well as single-package projects. It sets guidance for shared versions, security checks, optional dependencies, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or reviewing Rust dependencies, deciding between workspace and package-level versions, auditing packages, pinning important versions, or using optional features.
Why use it?
It keeps dependency choices consistent across a Rust project and encourages checking dependencies for security and outdated versions. It also avoids repeating shared version definitions.

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/tyrchen/cursor-rust-rules/dependencies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tyrchen/cursor-rust-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 2,588 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 $0.02588
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01294
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00259

Measured 2d ago against content hash 58f4352d543a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependencies scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories โ€” prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency โ€” 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.

.cursor/rules/rust/core/dependencies.mdc ยท 349 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing โ€” 349 lines โ€” stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

๐Ÿ“ฆ RUST DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT

TL;DR: Centralized dependency management guidelines for consistent, secure, and maintainable Rust projects.

๐Ÿ” DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

graph TD
    Start["Project Setup"] --> WorkspaceCheck{"Workspace<br>Project?"}

    WorkspaceCheck -->|Yes| WorkspaceRoot["Use Workspace Dependencies"]
    WorkspaceCheck -->|No| SingleCrate["Single Crate Dependencies"]

    WorkspaceRoot --> WorkspaceTable["[workspace.dependencies]<br>Define versions centrally"]
    SingleCrate --> DirectDeps["[dependencies]<br>Direct version specification"]

    WorkspaceTable --> CrateUsage["[dependencies]<br>crate = { workspace = true }"]

    CrateUsage --> SecurityCheck["Security Assessment"]
    DirectDeps --> SecurityCheck

    SecurityCheck --> Audit["cargo audit"]
    Audit --> Outdated["cargo outdated"]
    Outdated --> VersionPin["Pin Critical Versions"]

    VersionPin --> FeatureGates["Feature Gate Optional Deps"]
    FeatureGates --> Testing["Testing Dependencies"]
    Testing --> Documentation["Document Choices"]

    style Start fill:#4da6ff,stroke:#0066cc,color:white
    style WorkspaceRoot fill:#4dbb5f,stroke:#36873f,color:white
    style SingleCrate fill:#ffa64d,stroke:#cc7a30,color:white
    style SecurityCheck fill:#d94dbb,stroke:#a3378a,color:white

๐ŸŽฏ DEPENDENCY STRATEGY

Workspace Dependencies Priority

# Always prefer workspace dependencies first
[dependencies]
tokio = { workspace = true }
serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }

# Only add new dependencies if not available in workspace
# Request permission before modifying Cargo.toml

๐Ÿ“‹ STANDARD CRATE RECOMMENDATIONS

Core Utilities

# Error handling
anyhow = "1.0"                               # Simple error handling
thiserror = "2.0"                           # Structured error types
derive_more = { version = "2", features = ["full"] }  # Extended derive macros

# Data structures
typed-builder = "0.21"                      # Builder pattern
uuid = { version = "1.17", features = ["v4", "v7", "serde"] }
chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["serde"] }
time = { version = "0.3", features = ["serde"] }

Read the full file on GitHub ยท 349 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. 2d ago First seen ยท 349 lines ยท 0 tokens per session scan A 58f4352d543a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dependencies is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository tyrchen/cursor-rust-rules (27 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,588 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 2026-08-30.