Agent skill

Rust Sanitizers Miri

by mohitmishra786 in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills

Rust sanitizers and Miri skill for memory safety validation.

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Install Rust Sanitizers Miri

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill rust-sanitizers-miri -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills rust-sanitizers-miri --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/rust/rust-sanitizers-miri .claude/skills/rust-sanitizers-miri && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
rust-sanitizers-miri
GitHub stars
252
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
300 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
138
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Rust sanitizers and Miri skill for memory safety validation.

  • Works in 8 steps: Sanitizers in Rust (nightly required) → Stable sanitizer workaround → Interpreting ASan output in Rust → …
  • Running AddressSanitizer
  • SKILL.md covers Purpose, Triggers, Workflow and Related skills
  • Calls cargo

What it does

Rust Sanitizers Miri is an agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. Rust sanitizers and Miri skill for memory safety validation. Use when running AddressSanitizer or ThreadSanitizer on Rust code, interpreting sanitizer reports, using Miri to detect undefined behaviour in unsafe Rust, or validating unsafe code correctness. Activates on queries about Rust ASan, Rust TSan, Miri, RUSTFLAGS sanitize, cargo miri, unsafe Rust UB, or interpreting Rust sanitizer output.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/miri-ub-patterns.md`).

It sits in Development. It works with Rust. The repository describes itself as: A curated suite of AI agent skills for systems and low-level programming with C/C++, Rust, and Zig toolchains, covering compilers, debuggers, profilers, build systems…. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Running AddressSanitizer
  • ThreadSanitizer on Rust code
  • Interpreting sanitizer reports
  • Using Miri to detect undefined behaviour in unsafe Rust

Example prompts

  • “/rust-sanitizers-miri”

Requirements

  • Docker

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Sanitizers in Rust (nightly required)
  2. Stable sanitizer workaround
  3. Interpreting ASan output in Rust
  4. Miri — interpreter for undefined behaviour
  5. What Miri detects
  6. ThreadSanitizer for Rust
  7. Miri configuration via MIRIFLAGS
  8. CI integration

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bdc5847. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • cargo

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Rust Sanitizers Miri loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 105 tokens; SKILL.md has 300 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~105
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills at commit bdc5847, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitmishra786). 300 words, ~1,578 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/rust-sanitizers-miri/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
rust-sanitizers-miri
description
Rust sanitizers and Miri skill for memory safety validation. Use when running AddressSanitizer or ThreadSanitizer on Rust code, interpreting sanitizer reports, using Miri to detect undefined behaviour in unsafe Rust, or validating unsafe code correctness. Activates on queries about Rust ASan, Rust TSan, Miri, RUSTFLAGS sanitize, cargo miri, unsafe Rust UB, or interpreting Rust sanitizer output.

Rust Sanitizers and Miri

Purpose

Guide agents through runtime safety validation for Rust: ASan/TSan/MSan/UBSan via RUSTFLAGS, Miri for compile-time UB detection in unsafe code, and interpreting sanitizer reports.

Triggers

  • "How do I run AddressSanitizer on Rust code?"
  • "How do I use Miri to check my unsafe Rust?"
  • "How do I run ThreadSanitizer on a Rust program?"
  • "My unsafe Rust might have UB — how do I detect it?"
  • "How do I interpret a Rust ASan report?"
  • "Can I run Rust sanitizers on stable?"

Workflow

1. Sanitizers in Rust (nightly required)

Rust sanitizers require nightly and a compatible platform:

bash
# Install nightly
rustup toolchain install nightly
rustup component add rust-src --toolchain nightly

# AddressSanitizer (Linux, macOS)
RUSTFLAGS="-Z sanitizer=address" \
    cargo +nightly test -Zbuild-std \
    --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

# ThreadSanitizer (Linux)
RUSTFLAGS="-Z sanitizer=thread" \
    cargo +nightly test -Zbuild-std \
    --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

# MemorySanitizer (Linux, requires all-instrumented build)
RUSTFLAGS="-Z sanitizer=memory -Zsanitizer-memory-track-origins" \
    cargo +nightly test -Zbuild-std \
    --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

# UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer
RUSTFLAGS="-Z sanitizer=undefined" \
    cargo +nightly test -Zbuild-std \
    --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

-Zbuild-std rebuilds the standard library with the sanitizer, which is necessary for accurate results.

2. Stable sanitizer workaround

For stable Rust, use the cross tool with a Docker image that has sanitizers pre-configured, or run cargo test inside a Docker container with a nightly image.

Alternatively, for simpler UB checking without nightly:

bash
# cargo-sanitize (wrapper)
cargo install cargo-sanitize
cargo sanitize address
3. Interpreting ASan output in Rust
==12345==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x602000000050
READ of size 4 at 0x602000000050 thread T0
    #0 0x401234 in myapp::module::function /src/main.rs:15
    #1 0x401567 in myapp::main /src/main.rs:42

0x602000000050 is located 0 bytes after a 40-byte region allocated at:
    #0 0x... in alloc::alloc::alloc ...
    #1 0x... in myapp::create_buffer /src/main.rs:10

Rust-specific patterns:

ASan errorLikely Rust cause
heap-buffer-overflowunsafe slice access past bounds
use-after-freeunsafe pointer use after Vec realloc
stack-use-after-returnReturning reference to local
heap-use-after-freeUse after drop() or Box::from_raw
4. Miri — interpreter for undefined behaviour

Miri interprets Rust MIR and detects UB that sanitizers might miss:

bash
# Install Miri (requires nightly)
rustup +nightly component add miri

# Run tests under Miri
cargo +nightly miri test

# Run specific test
cargo +nightly miri test test_name

# Run a binary under Miri
cargo +nightly miri run

# Run with Stacked Borrows model (strict aliasing)
MIRIFLAGS="-Zmiri-strict-provenance" cargo +nightly miri test

# Disable isolation (allow file I/O, randomness)
MIRIFLAGS="-Zmiri-disable-isolation" cargo +nightly miri test
5. What Miri detects
rust
// 1. Dangling pointer use
unsafe {
    let x = Box::new(42);
    let ptr = Box::into_raw(x);
    let _ = Box::from_raw(ptr);  // drop
    let _val = *ptr;  // Miri: use of dangling pointer
}

// 2. Invalid enum discriminant
let x: u8 = 3;
let e = unsafe { std::mem::transmute::<u8, MyEnum>(x) };
// Miri: enum value has invalid tag

// 3. Uninitialized memory read
let uninit: MaybeUninit<u32> = MaybeUninit::uninit();
let val = unsafe { uninit.assume_init() };  // Miri: reading uninitialized bytes

// 4. Stacked borrows violation
let mut x = 5u32;
let ptr = &mut x as *mut u32;
let _ref = &x;  // shared reference
unsafe { *ptr = 10; }  // Miri: mutable access while shared borrow exists

// 5. Data races (with threads)
// Miri simulates sequential execution and detects races via Stacked Borrows
6. ThreadSanitizer for Rust
bash
RUSTFLAGS="-Z sanitizer=thread" \
    RUST_TEST_THREADS=8 \
    cargo +nightly test -Zbuild-std \
    --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu 2>&1 | head -50

TSan output:

WARNING: ThreadSanitizer: data race (pid=12345)
  Write of size 4 at 0x7f... by thread T2 (mutexes: write M1):
    #0 myapp::counter::increment src/counter.rs:10
  Previous read of size 4 at 0x7f... by thread T1:
    #0 myapp::counter::get src/counter.rs:5
7. Miri configuration via MIRIFLAGS
FlagEffect
-Zmiri-disable-isolationAllow I/O, clock, randomness
-Zmiri-strict-provenanceStrict pointer provenance (stricter than LLVM)
-Zmiri-symbolic-alignment-checkStricter alignment checking
-Zmiri-check-number-validityCheck float/int validity
-Zmiri-num-cpus=NSimulate N CPUs (for concurrency)
-Zmiri-seed=NSeed for random scheduling
-Zmiri-ignore-leaksSuppress memory leak errors
-Zmiri-tag-raw-pointersTrack raw pointer provenance
8. CI integration
yaml
# GitHub Actions
- name: Miri
  run: |
    rustup toolchain install nightly
    rustup +nightly component add miri
    cargo +nightly miri test
  env:
    MIRIFLAGS: "-Zmiri-disable-isolation"

- name: ASan (nightly)
  run: |
    rustup component add rust-src --toolchain nightly
    RUSTFLAGS="-Z sanitizer=address" \
    cargo +nightly test -Zbuild-std \
    --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  • Use skills/rust/rust-debugging for GDB/LLDB debugging of Rust panics
  • Use skills/runtimes/sanitizers for C/C++ sanitizer usage and comparison
  • Use skills/rust/rust-unsafe for unsafe Rust patterns and review checklist
  • Use skills/runtimes/fuzzing to generate inputs that trigger sanitizer errors

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/rust/rust-sanitizers-miri of mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/miri-ub-patterns.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bdc5847

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Questions about Rust Sanitizers Miri

What does Rust Sanitizers Miri do?

Rust sanitizers and Miri skill for memory safety validation. Rust Sanitizers Miri is an agent skill from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills. Rust sanitizers and Miri skill for memory safety validation.

When should I use Rust Sanitizers Miri?

Rust Sanitizers Miri fits situations like: running AddressSanitizer; threadSanitizer on Rust code; interpreting sanitizer reports; using Miri to detect undefined behaviour in unsafe Rust.

How do I install Rust Sanitizers Miri in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill rust-sanitizers-miri -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rust/rust-sanitizers-miri in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills) into .claude/skills/rust-sanitizers-miri in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Rust Sanitizers Miri in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill rust-sanitizers-miri -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/rust/rust-sanitizers-miri in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills) into .agents/skills/rust-sanitizers-miri in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Rust Sanitizers Miri in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills --skill rust-sanitizers-miri -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/rust-sanitizers-miri, .gemini/skills/rust-sanitizers-miri, .github/skills/rust-sanitizers-miri and .opencode/skills/rust-sanitizers-miri in your project.

What does Rust Sanitizers Miri need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Rust Sanitizers Miri needs the command-line tools its instructions call (cargo). Our summary lists: Docker.

Does Rust Sanitizers Miri access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Rust Sanitizers Miri safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Rust Sanitizers Miri use?

Rust Sanitizers Miri is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Rust Sanitizers Miri use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 968 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Rust Sanitizers Miri?

mohitmishra786 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills, which has 252 GitHub stars. The repository holds 138 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 27, 2026.

Source: mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.