m15-anti-pattern

m15-anti-pattern is a skill for Claude Code from moeru-ai/auv. It costs 101 tokens per session (1,195 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to recognizing common Rust anti-patterns, which are recurring approaches that cause design or maintenance problems. It pairs examples such as excessive cloning or production unwraps with safer or more idiomatic alternatives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during code review or debugging to assess clones, unwraps, reference-counted values, unsafe code, large match statements, string usage, and ignored errors.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish the visible symptom from the underlying ownership, error-handling, or API design problem.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it during code review or debugging to assess clones, unwraps, reference-counted values, unsafe code, large match statements, string usage, and ignored errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/moeru-ai/auv/m15-anti-pattern
View source ↗ moeru-ai/auv
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add moeru-ai/auv --skill m15-anti-pattern
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/moeru-ai/auv

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,195 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00101 $0.01195
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00598
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00120

Measured 10d ago against content hash bcbb49e47b76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

m15-anti-pattern 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 10d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.agents/skills/m15-anti-pattern/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Anti-Patterns

Layer 2: Design Choices

Core Question

Is this pattern hiding a design problem?

When reviewing code:

  • Is this solving the symptom or the cause?
  • Is there a more idiomatic approach?
  • Does this fight or flow with Rust?

Anti-Pattern → Better Pattern

Anti-Pattern Why Bad Better
.clone() everywhere Hides ownership issues Proper references or ownership
.unwrap() in production Runtime panics ?, expect, or handling
Rc when single owner Unnecessary overhead Simple ownership
unsafe for convenience UB risk Find safe pattern
OOP via Deref Misleading API Composition, traits
Giant match arms Unmaintainable Extract to methods
String everywhere Allocation waste &str, Cow<str>
Ignoring #[must_use] Lost errors Handle or let _ =

Thinking Prompt

When seeing suspicious code:

  1. Is this symptom or cause?

    • Clone to avoid borrow? → Ownership design issue
    • Unwrap "because it won't fail"? → Unhandled case
  2. What would idiomatic code look like?

    • References instead of clones
    • Iterators instead of index loops
    • Pattern matching instead of flags
  3. Does this fight Rust?

    • Fighting borrow checker → restructure
    • Excessive unsafe → find safe pattern

Trace Up ↑

To design understanding:

"Why does my code have so many clones?"
    ↑ Ask: Is the ownership model correct?
    ↑ Check: m09-domain (data flow design)
    ↑ Check: m01-ownership (reference patterns)
Anti-Pattern Trace To Question
Clone everywhere m01-ownership Who should own this data?
Unwrap everywhere m06-error-handling What's the error strategy?
Rc everywhere m09-domain Is ownership clear?
Fighting lifetimes m09-domain Should data structure change?

Trace Down ↓

To implementation (Layer 1):

"Replace clone with proper ownership"
    ↓ m01-ownership: Reference patterns
    ↓ m02-resource: Smart pointer if needed

"Replace unwrap with proper handling"
    ↓ m06-error-handling: ? operator
    ↓ m06-error-handling: expect with message

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 161 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A bcbb49e47b76

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m15-anti-pattern is a skill published in the GitHub repository moeru-ai/auv (27 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 1,195 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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