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Write and review Rust library documentation with rustdoc module docs, public API examples, doctests, examples directories, missing-docs gates, docs.rs readiness, and user-first crate narratives. Use when documenting a Rust crate, improving docs before publishing, or turning examples into tested rustdoc.

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Rustdoc Library Documentation

Use this skill to make Rust library documentation executable, navigable, and useful to downstream crate consumers.

Core Workflow

  1. Start from the consumer's first task, not from internal module order.
  2. Add crate-level and module-level docs that explain purpose and boundaries.
  3. Document public types, functions, errors, features, and invariants.
  4. Prefer short compiling examples and doctests for core APIs.
  5. Put longer scenarios in examples/ and reference them from docs.
  6. Run docs and doctests before publishing.

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TaskLoad
Document a public crate APIguidelines.md, workflows/document-library.md
Add doctests or examplesreferences/rustdoc-patterns.md
Prepare docs for publishingreferences/rustdoc-patterns.md

Source Notes

Guidance is transformed and paraphrased from Herbert Wolverson, Advanced Hands-On Rust, especially Chapter 4 on documenting a library and Chapter 15 on sharing crates. Examples are original skeletons.