rust-best-practices

A guide to writing and reviewing idiomatic Rust code, based on Apollo GraphQL's best-practices handbook.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing, reviewing, or refactoring Rust code, including decisions about borrowing versus copying, Result handling, linting, tests, and thread safety.
Why use it?
It helps developers make consistent choices about ownership, errors, performance, testing, generics, pointers, and documentation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/aphrody-code/bxc/rust-best-practices
Any agent
npx skills add aphrody-code/bxc --skill rust-best-practices
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aphrody-code/bxc

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,059 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00091 $0.01059
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00530
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00106

Measured 2d ago against content hash 80eeb8ab3da0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rust-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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to rust-best-practices — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/rust-best-practices/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rust Best Practices

Apply these guidelines when writing or reviewing Rust code. Based on Apollo GraphQL's Rust Best Practices Handbook.

Best Practices Reference

Before reviewing, familiarize yourself with Apollo's Rust best practices. Read ALL relevant chapters in the same turn in parallel. Reference these files when providing feedback:

Quick Reference

Borrowing & Ownership

  • Prefer &T over .clone() unless ownership transfer is required
  • Use &str over String, &[T] over Vec<T> in function parameters
  • Small Copy types (≤24 bytes) can be passed by value
  • Use Cow<'_, T> when ownership is ambiguous

Error Handling

  • Return Result<T, E> for fallible operations; avoid panic! in production
  • Never use unwrap()/expect() outside tests
  • Use thiserror for library errors, anyhow for binaries only
  • Prefer ? operator over match chains for error propagation

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 95 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 80eeb8ab3da0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

rust-best-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository aphrody-code/bxc (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,059 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to rust-best-practices, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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