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rust-best-practices from adulari/forge is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add adulari/forge/rust-best-practices@git:20260704.a5242bfPins git:20260704.a5242bf in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- adulari/forge
- Path
crates/forge-skills/builtin/rust-best-practices/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260704.a5242bf, committed Jul 4, 2026
- Size
- 9,617 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Write, review, or refactor Rust so it is idiomatic, safe, and maintainable. Use this skill whenever the task involves Rust code — implementing a feature in a `.rs` file, reviewing a Rust PR or module, refactoring a crate, designing a public API, fixing clippy or borrow-checker complaints, deciding how to structure error handling, or splitting an oversized function or file. Trigger even when the user does not say "best practices" explicitly: any request to "write this in Rust…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Rust Best Practices Idiomatic Rust is not a style preference — it is how you get the compiler and the ecosystem to catch your mistakes for you. The goal of every guideline here is to move a class of bug from "found in production" to "found at compile time" or "found by `cargo clippy`". When you apply a rule, understand which failure it prevents; that lets you know when the rule genuinely doesn't apply. ## Before you write code Read the surrounding module first. A crate has a texture — its error type, its naming, how it splits modules, whether it leans on iterators or explicit loops. Match it. A locally "more correct" pattern that fights the existing conventions is worse than a consistent one, because the next reader now has to hold two mental models. ## The verification gate (non-negotiable) Rust code is not done until these pass. Run them and fix what they report — do not report success on unverified code. ``` cargo fmt --all cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings cargo test ``` `cargo fmt` removes all whitespace and layout debate. `clippy` with `-D warnings` is the …
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How to install
mdr add adulari/forge/rust-best-practices@sha256:96150a584b1c1fbaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260704.a5242bf, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
adulari/forge · 11 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
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