rust-development

name	rust-development
description	Develop, review, and explore Rust code with strict adherence to Pragmatic Rust Guidelines. Use when the user mentions Rust, .rs files, Cargo, clippy, rustdoc, or requests Rust architecture, implementation, or review.

Rust Development

This skill coordinates Rust development workflows and enforces Rust coding standards and best practices when creating or modifying Rust code.

Capabilities

• Rust architecture planning
• Rust code exploration and feature tracing
• Rust code review with high-confidence findings
• Rust implementation and refactoring

Instructions

When asked about generating new code or making code changes to existing code, make sure that edits are conformant to the Rust guidelines at .claude/skills/rust-development/guidelines.txt if the language to generate is Rust.

Key areas to enforce:

• Idiomatic Rust patterns and conventions
• Proper error handling (Result types, custom errors)
• Memory safety and lifetime management
• Async/await patterns when applicable
• FFI best practices for interop scenarios
• Documentation standards (rustdoc conventions)
• Testing patterns and practices

Only add a compliance comment when the user explicitly asks for a compliance annotation or a compliance-focused review. If requested, add:

// Rust guideline compliant {date}

where {date} is the guideline date/version.

Agent Delegation

Use these agents for Rust workflows. Always set run_in_background to true in the invocation payloads.

• rust-architect: Architecture and implementation blueprints
• rust-code-reviewer: High-confidence Rust code reviews
• rust-code-explorer: Feature tracing and architecture mapping
• rust-developer: Rust implementation and refactoring

Invocation template (always keep run_in_background: true):

{
  "description": "Short description of what the agent will do",
  "prompt": "Detailed task description",
  "subagent_type": "rust-architect | rust-code-reviewer | rust-code-explorer | rust-developer",
  "run_in_background": true
}

When to Activate

This skill activates automatically when:

• Creating new Rust source files (.rs)
• Modifying existing Rust code
• Reviewing Rust code for compliance
• Answering questions about Rust best practices
• Working with Cargo projects

Guidelines Source

The detailed guidelines are maintained in .claude/skills/rust-development/guidelines.txt.