# Installer cargo-careful avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de cargo-careful pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:cargo-careful
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cargo-careful
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#cargo-careful
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ca/cargo-careful/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:cargo-careful
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cargo-careful>
- **Version:** 0.4.10
- **Résumé source:** Execute Rust code carefully, with extra checking along the way
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/RalfJung/cargo-careful>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/RalfJung/cargo-careful>
- **Licence:** Apache-2.0 OR MIT
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/RalfJung/cargo-careful/archive/refs/tags/v0.4.10.tar.gz>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## exécutables

- cargo-careful (cli)
- cargo-careful (alias)

## Dépendances de compilation

- rust

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-04
- version du gestionnaire: 0.4.10
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/RalfJung/cargo-careful
- dernière version détectée: v0.4.10 (à jour)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Historique du projet et usages

cargo-careful is a Cargo subcommand for running Rust programs and tests with extra nightly-only runtime checks, a standard library built with debug assertions, and optional sanitizer support.

### Historique du projet

Ralf Jung's cargo-careful repository and first crates.io release both appeared in September 2022. The README describes it as a way to run Rust code extra carefully by opting into checks that help detect undefined behavior.

The tool builds or uses a checked standard library and passes rustc flags that enable stricter runtime behavior, including pointer alignment and null checks, collection consistency checks, strict initialization checks, and extra const-evaluation UB checks. Later versions also document sanitizer support and Apple Main Thread Checker integration on Apple platforms.

### Historique d'adoption

cargo-careful is more specialized than general debugging Cargo plugins, but it fills an important space between ordinary `cargo test` and exhaustive interpreters. Crates.io reports more than 169,000 downloads, while the input records Homebrew and Nix packaging.

Its author and positioning connect it to Rust's unsafe-code verification culture. The README explicitly compares it with Miri: cargo-careful is less exhaustive but faster, supports arbitrary system and C FFI calls, and works on code Miri may not be able to run.

### Modes d'utilisation

Users install it with `cargo install cargo-careful` and run commands such as `cargo +nightly careful test` or `cargo +nightly careful run`. The README says all `cargo test` and `cargo run` flags are supported and that a recent nightly toolchain is required.

On first use it may need the `rustc-src` rustup component to perform setup. It also honors common Rust flag sources such as `CARGO_ENCODED_RUSTFLAGS`, `RUSTFLAGS`, and Cargo's `build.rustflags`, and it sets a `cfg(careful)` configuration flag for conditional code.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

cargo-careful matters to package nerds because it packages unstable compiler and standard-library checking behavior into a repeatable Cargo command. It gives library maintainers a way to add stronger runtime checking to test workflows without rewriting tests for a separate interpreter.

It is also a good example of Cargo as a safety-tool host: the package itself is small, but it coordinates rustup components, nightly rustc flags, standard-library rebuilding, sanitizers, and target-specific platform diagnostics.

### Chronologie

- 2022-09-22: GitHub repository RalfJung/cargo-careful was created.
- 2022-09-22: cargo-careful 0.1.0 was published on crates.io.
- 2020s: README documented the relationship with Miri, nightly-only UB checks, sanitizer support, and Main Thread Checker integration.
- 2026-04-01: Version 0.4.10 was published.

### Related projects

- Miri is the related Rust interpreter/checker that the README recommends for more exhaustive undefined-behavior detection.
- rustup and the `rustc-src` component are involved in cargo-careful setup.
- Rust nightly compiler flags and sanitizer support are the underlying mechanisms cargo-careful coordinates.

### Sources

- GitHub repository API metadata: https://api.github.com/repos/RalfJung/cargo-careful
- Official README: https://github.com/RalfJung/cargo-careful#readme
- Package-manager adoption from source_facts.package-manager.
- crates.io API metadata and versions: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/cargo-careful


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** cargo-careful
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - cargo-careful: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ca/cargo-careful/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cargo-careful.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/cargo-careful.yml)


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