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TUI like cli tool to manage the features of your rust-project dependencies. Version 0.11.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-17. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#cargo-features-manager.
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overview
Package summary
TUI like cli tool to manage the features of your rust-project dependencies
Project links
Commands and aliases
- cargo-features
history
Project history and usage
cargo-features-manager is a Rust Cargo helper that provides a terminal UI for enabling, disabling, and pruning dependency features in Cargo.toml. It focuses on a pain point that appears once Rust projects accumulate optional dependencies and feature-driven configuration.
Project history
The GitHub repository was created in April 2023 and the crate was published on crates.io days later. The README describes a TUI-like CLI that lets users view available dependency features and toggle them, with changes written directly back to Cargo.toml.
The README now states that the project has moved to Tangled, while crates.io metadata also lists Tangled as the homepage and repository. The GitHub repository remains the documentation URL supplied by the package input, but the upstream project identity has shifted.
Adoption history
Adoption is specialized but visible: the supplied package-manager facts list Homebrew and Nix packages, and crates.io records tens of thousands of downloads. It serves maintainers who tune feature flags more often than the average Cargo user.
The addition of `cargo features prune`, documented in the README, moves the tool beyond manual toggling toward automated feature minimization with safeguards for known false positives.
How it is used
Users run `cargo features` in a project root to open a dependency selector and feature selector, then toggle features with keyboard navigation. `cargo features -d <dependency>` jumps directly to a dependency's feature selector.
`cargo features prune` attempts to disable features not required for compilation, with flags such as `--dry-run`, `--only-dependency`, `--skip-tests`, and a Cargo.toml `cargo-features-manager.keep` section for features that should be preserved.
Why package nerds care
cargo-features-manager is notable because Cargo feature sets are one of Rust packaging's more subtle sources of compile time, dependency surface, and behavior changes. A TUI for toggling and pruning features makes that metadata more inspectable than hand-editing arrays in Cargo.toml.
Its false-positive list and keep configuration show the hard part of feature minimization: not every unused-looking feature is semantically safe to remove.
Timeline
- 2023: ToBinio/cargo-features-manager GitHub repository created.
- 2023: cargo-features-manager crate first published on crates.io.
- 2026: crates.io metadata points homepage and repository fields at Tangled and shows the 0.12.0 release line.
Related projects
- Cargo.toml is the manifest edited by cargo-features-manager.
- Cargo features and optional dependencies are the package metadata concepts the tool visualizes and edits.
- Tangled is the current upstream hosting target referenced by the README and crates.io metadata.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
Cargo.toml
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
cargo-features | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.11.1
manager updated2026-07-17
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:cargo-features-manager |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.11.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://tangled.org/tobinio.dev/cargo-features-manager |
| Repository | https://github.com/ToBinio/cargo-features-manager |
| Last updated | 2026-07-17T21:31:54+09:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
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cargo-features-manager
nix profile install nixpkgs#cargo-features-manager- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Cargo Features Manager
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation