scaffold-rust-cli

scaffold-rust-cli is a skill for Claude Code from cboone/agent-harness-plugins. It costs 114 tokens per session (2,624 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project starter for building a Rust command-line tool with Cargo, testing, dependency checks, release notes, and GitHub Actions workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new Rust CLI repository with its basic project files, local commands, automated checks, and release setup.
Why use it?
It removes the repetitive setup work required before writing the command-line tool itself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the scaffold-rust-cli plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a new Rust CLI repository with its basic project files, local commands, automated checks, and release setup.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/scaffold-rust-cli
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cboone/agent-harness-plugins --skill scaffold-rust-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cboone/agent-harness-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install scaffold-rust-cli, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,624 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 $0.00114 $0.02624
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01312
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00525
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00262

Measured 5d ago against content hash ccaf6dd48e48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scaffold-rust-cli 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 5d 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.

plugins/scaffold-rust-cli/skills/scaffold-rust-cli/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scaffold Rust CLI

Generate the full boilerplate for a new Rust CLI project.

Workflow

1. Gather Project Information

If the user provided a project name in their request, use it as the project name and skip asking for it. Still ask for the remaining parameters unless already provided in the user's initial request.

Ask the user for these parameters:

  • Project name -- kebab-case, used as the crate name, binary name, and directory name (e.g., my-tool)
  • Short description -- one sentence, used in Cargo.toml and README
  • Include clap? -- whether to add clap for CLI argument parsing (adds clap dependency with derive feature and generates a skeleton with argument structs)
  • macOS-only project? -- whether this project targets only macOS (affects CI runner selection and release workflow targets). Default: no (cross-platform).

If the user already provided some or all of these in their initial request, do not re-ask. Derive what you can from context.

2. Detect User Identity

Detect the user's GitHub username and full name for use in templates:

# GitHub username (for repository URLs, Homebrew tap)
gh api user -q .login
# Full name (for LICENSE copyright, Cargo.toml authors)
git config user.name

If either command fails or produces no output, ask the user to provide the value. Use the GitHub username wherever templates reference GITHUB-USERNAME and the full name wherever they reference COPYRIGHT-HOLDER.

3. Verify the Target Directory

The project should be scaffolded in a directory named after the project. If the current directory is already named after the project and is empty (or nearly empty), use it. Otherwise, create a subdirectory.

If the directory already contains Rust files (Cargo.toml, src/), warn the user before proceeding.

4. Initialize Git

Skip if already inside a git repository.

git init

5. Generate Cargo.toml

Read ./references/cargo-toml.md for the Cargo.toml template and create Cargo.toml from it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 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. 5d ago First seen · 276 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A ccaf6dd48e48

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scaffold-rust-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository cboone/agent-harness-plugins (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 2,624 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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