Which programming languages does this memory safety skill support?

This skill provides specific implementation patterns and best practices for C, C++, and Rust, covering the majority of systems programming needs.

How does this skill improve application security?

By enforcing patterns like RAII and bounds checking, it helps developers proactively prevent common security vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and use-after-free errors.

Can this skill help migrate code from C to Rust?

Yes, it provides the underlying memory safety conceptual maps for both languages, making it an excellent reference for porting manual memory management to ownership-based systems.

Does using these patterns impact system performance?

These patterns (like RAII and Rust ownership) are designed for zero-cost abstractions, providing safety at compile-time or through efficient scope-based management without the overhead of a garbage collector.

Memory Safety Patterns

Name: Memory Safety Patterns
Author: as4584

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Implements memory-safe programming patterns like RAII, ownership, and resource management across C, C++, and Rust.

About

This skill equips Claude with specialized knowledge of systems programming memory safety across multiple languages. It provides robust implementation patterns for Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII), smart pointers, and Rust-style ownership and borrowing. It is particularly useful when writing low-level systems code, managing hardware resources like file handles and sockets, or debugging critical memory-related vulnerabilities such as use-after-free, double-frees, and data races. By applying these cross-language patterns, developers can balance low-level control with modern safety guarantees.

Key Features

Cross-language memory management patterns for Rust, C++, and C
Data race prevention and thread-safe concurrency implementation
Bounds checking and buffer overflow prevention patterns
Implementation guides for RAII and automated resource cleanup
Ownership, borrowing, and lifetime tracking strategies
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Use Cases

Implementing resource-safe drivers or system utilities using C++ smart pointers
Debugging and fixing memory leaks, use-after-free, or concurrency bugs
Refactoring legacy C code to use safe cleanup and goto-cleanup patterns

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Key Features

Cross-language memory management patterns for Rust, C++, and C
Data race prevention and thread-safe concurrency implementation
Bounds checking and buffer overflow prevention patterns
Implementation guides for RAII and automated resource cleanup
Ownership, borrowing, and lifetime tracking strategies
0 GitHub stars

Use Cases

Implementing resource-safe drivers or system utilities using C++ smart pointers
Debugging and fixing memory leaks, use-after-free, or concurrency bugs
Refactoring legacy C code to use safe cleanup and goto-cleanup patterns