rust-style-guide
DevelopmentApply this Rust style guide when writing, reviewing, refactoring, or configuring Rust code for this project. Covers Rust 2024/MSRV, library vs application conventions, public API design, errors, panics, ownership and cloning, async/Tokio/concurrency, tracing, rustfmt/Clippy, testing with nextest, and unsafe/macro policy. Also use when setting up new Rust projects, investigating Rust performance, verifying library releases, or reviewing Rust code changes.
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Rust Style Guide
Use this skill to apply the project's Rust style conventions while writing, reviewing, refactoring, or configuring Rust code.
Location: This skill's supporting files live in
.fabro/skills/rust-style-guide/at the repository root. Every linked path below (guidelines.md,guidelines/*.md,workflows/*.md) is relative to that directory. Read them with that prefix — e.g..fabro/skills/rust-style-guide/guidelines.md.
Supporting Files
- guidelines.md - index of Rust style policy pages. Load this for ordinary Rust work, then load only the guideline pages relevant to the task.
- workflows/new-rust-project.md - workflow for creating or configuring a new Rust crate, workspace, CLI, library, service, or application.
- workflows/reusable-library-release.md - workflow for verifying reusable library releases, feature combinations, dependency checks, and out-of-box builds.
- workflows/performance-investigation.md - workflow for measuring, profiling, and changing performance-sensitive Rust code.
- workflows/code-review-refactor.md - workflow for reviewing, refactoring, or changing existing Rust code.
Routing Examples
| Task | Load |
|---|---|
| Create a new Rust project | workflows/new-rust-project.md, guidelines.md |
| Verify a reusable library release | workflows/reusable-library-release.md, guidelines.md |
| Investigate performance | workflows/performance-investigation.md, guidelines.md |
| Review or refactor code | workflows/code-review-refactor.md, guidelines.md |
| Define a public library error type | guidelines.md, library/application errors, error propagation, public API evolution |
| Handle top-level CLI/application errors | guidelines.md, library/application errors, error propagation, panics |
| Choose enum vs trait vs trait object | guidelines.md, enums vs traits, trait design, public API evolution |
| Add a domain ID or validated value | guidelines.md, newtypes, constructors, validation |
| Write async service code | guidelines.md, async runtime, task lifecycle, shutdown, logging |
| Add instrumentation | guidelines.md, logging and observability, error messages |
| Configure formatting, lints, or tests | guidelines.md, rustfmt, Clippy, Cargo, CI |
| Review unsafe code or macros | guidelines.md, unsafe and macros, public API evolution |
Core Behavior
- Load only the pages the task needs; guideline pages are the policy, workflow pages are the procedures.
- Prefer concrete Rust guidance over language tutorials.
- Keep library/application differences explicit.
- Use the project's OO-leaning Rust default without forcing inheritance-shaped designs.
- Prefer strong, compiler-backed types over primitive-heavy APIs.
- Apply the loaded rules directly. Ask one focused question only when required project context is missing.