Rust Best Practices
Rust Best Practices is an agent skill (a SKILL.md file) from morganlinton/BeautifulRust. Write idiomatic, robust, maintainable Rust. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot and has 905 GitHub stars. Install it by copying the skill folder into your agent's skills directory.
github.com/morganlinton/BeautifulRust/skills/rust-best-practices (opens in a new tab)
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Add this skill
Claude
This repository is a Claude Code plugin marketplace. In Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add morganlinton/BeautifulRust
/plugin install beautiful-rust@beautiful-rustIn the Claude apps, zip the rust-best-practices folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Upload a skill (code execution must be on).
ChatGPT / Codex
Codex reads skills from .agents/skills/ in a repo or ~/.agents/skills/ for every project:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/morganlinton/BeautifulRust.git
cp -r BeautifulRust/skills/rust-best-practices .agents/skills/rust-best-practices # repo; ~/.agents/skills for all projectsStandalone skills also load in the ChatGPT desktop app.
Cursor
Cursor loads skills from .cursor/skills/ (or ~/.cursor/skills/) and also reads .claude/skills/:
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/morganlinton/BeautifulRust.git
cp -r BeautifulRust/skills/rust-best-practices .cursor/skills/rust-best-practices # project; ~/.cursor/skills for all projectsSource (checked Oct 7, 2026): code.claude.com/docs/en/skills (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-marketplaces (opens in a new tab), support.claude.com/en/articles/12512180-using-skills-in-claude (opens in a new tab), learn.chatgpt.com/docs/build-skills (opens in a new tab), cursor.com/docs/context/skills (opens in a new tab)
What this skill does
Write idiomatic, robust, maintainable Rust. Use this skill whenever you write, review, refactor, debug, or explain Rust code: new crates, modules, functions, structs, traits, error types, async code, unsafe or FFI code, Cargo.toml, tests, or rustdoc. Trigger on any mention of Rust, cargo, crates, .rs files, the borrow checker, lifetimes, traits, clippy, or rustfmt, even when the user does not ask for "best practices" or "idiomatic" code.
When it triggers
- Trigger on any mention of Rust, cargo, crates, .
- user does not ask for "best practices" or "idiomatic" code.
- "best practices"
- "idiomatic"
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How do I install the Rust Best Practices skill?
In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add morganlinton/BeautifulRust and then /plugin install beautiful-rust@beautiful-rust. For Codex or Cursor, copy the rust-best-practices folder into .agents/skills/ or .cursor/skills/.
Is the Rust Best Practices skill free?
Yes. The repository is open source under the MIT license.
Is Rust Best Practices maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 26, 2026. Its latest release is v1.4.0. appsgit only lists skills from repositories with a commit in the last six months.