ownership

name	ownership
description	Guide for Rust ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes. Use when working with ownership rules, move semantics, borrowing, slices, or lifetime annotations.

Rust Ownership and Borrowing

Ownership rules, borrowing, slices, and lifetimes.

When to Use This Skill

Activate when:

• Understanding ownership and move semantics
• Working with references and borrowing rules
• Using string or array slices
• Annotating or debugging lifetimes
• Fixing borrow checker errors

For ownership rules, borrowing patterns, slices, and lifetime annotations, see references/ownership.md.

Anti-fabrication

This skill follows core:anti-fabrication. Every claim about ownership, borrowing, and lifetime rules is verified against the official Rust Book chapters cited in sources.md — not inferred from generic familiarity with the language. Before asserting borrow-checker behavior this skill and its references do not cover, check the installed Rust toolchain's documentation rather than guessing.