format_rust

A Rust coding guide for writing clear, clippy-compliant code. Clippy is Rust’s tool for detecting common mistakes and style problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or editing Rust files, especially when deciding how to handle recoverable errors versus broken program assumptions.
Why use it?
It helps keep warnings low and makes choices about errors, panics, imports, and data flow more consistent.

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/theafh/ai-modules/format_rust
Any agent
npx skills add theafh/ai-modules --skill format_rust
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/theafh/ai-modules

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,328 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 $0.00087 $0.01328
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00664
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00133

Measured 2d ago against content hash 56afb5e18b04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

format_rust 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.

plugins/ai_dev/skills/format_rust/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

format_rust

Preferred style

Use clear, procedural flow with small, single‑purpose functions and explicit data flow; keep names concrete so intent is obvious at a glance.

Clippy‑driven improvements

Write code that naturally satisfies clippy by choosing the simplest correct form, and treat clippy warnings as signals to improve clarity, safety, and maintainability.

Imports

Use only necessary imports and prefer direct module paths; remove unused imports promptly to keep warnings clean.

Errors versus broken invariants

Treat a failure the world causes — a missing file, malformed input, a value that does not parse, a timeout — as a Result the caller handles with ?. Treat a failure that means one of the program's own guarantees is false as a panic, because continuing would compute on state already known to be void. Reach for unwrap only in that second category: it is an assertion, not a fallback. At each fallible call, decide whether failure there means the world is wrong or the code is wrong, and route accordingly — using unwrap because writing the error type is tedious claims a broken invariant while actually sitting in an unhandled error.

Fallible builders

Route fallible builder APIs through Result and the error idiom the consumer of that API selects under Error idiom follows the consumer, returning that error type from the builder rather than panicking.

Panic discipline across a trust boundary

On any path reachable from input the process does not control, return a typed error the caller handles. Treat the constructs that panic on failure — unwrap, expect, direct indexing and slicing, and arithmetic that can overflow — as defects on that path, because an input that reaches one is a remotely triggerable denial of service.

An expect message names the invariant

Where a panic is the correct outcome, write an expect whose message names the invariant the site rests on rather than the symptom, and leave bare unwrap behind. That message makes the claim reviewable: a reader can check the stated invariant, while a bare unwrap cannot distinguish a proven claim from a skipped error path.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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 · 82 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 56afb5e18b04

Subscribe to this mod's changes

format_rust is a skill published in the GitHub repository theafh/ai-modules (38 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 1,328 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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