rust-skills SKILL.md skillA

rust-skills from kalarislabs/skill-doctor is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add kalarislabs/skill-doctor/rust-skills@v1.5.1

Pins v1.5.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
kalarislabs/skill-doctor
Path
skills/rust-skills/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
v1.5.1, committed Sep 10, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 10, 2026
Size
12,545 bytes
Repository stars
14
License
Apache-2.0

Comprehensive Rust coding guidelines with 265 rules across 26 categories. Use when writing, reviewing, or refactoring Rust code. Covers ownership, error handling, async patterns, concurrency, unsafe code, API design, memory optimization, performance, numeric safety, conversions, serde, pattern matching, macros, closures, observability, testing, and common anti-patterns. Invoke with /rust-skills.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Rust Best Practices

Comprehensive guide for writing high-quality, idiomatic, and highly optimized Rust code. Contains 265 rules across 26 categories, prioritized by impact to guide LLMs in code generation and refactoring. Current for Rust 1.96 (2024 edition).

## When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:
- Writing new Rust functions, structs, or modules
- Implementing error handling or async code
- Writing concurrent, parallel, or `unsafe` code
- Designing public APIs for libraries
- Reviewing code for ownership/borrowing issues
- Optimizing memory usage or reducing allocations
- Tuning performance for hot paths
- Refactoring existing Rust code

## Rule Categories by Priority

| Priority | Category | Impact | Prefix | Rules |
|----------|----------|--------|--------|-------|
| 1 | Ownership & Borrowing | CRITICAL | `own-` | 12 |
| 2 | Error Handling | CRITICAL | `err-` | 12 |
| 3 | Memory Optimization | CRITICAL | `mem-` | 17 |
| 4 | Unsafe Code | CRITICAL | `unsafe-` | 7 |
| 5 | API Design | HIGH | `api-` | 17 |
| 6 | Async/Await | HIGH | `async-` | 18 |
| 7 | Concurrency | HIGH | `conc-` | 4 |
| 8 | Compiler Optimization | HIGH | `opt-` | 12 |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add kalarislabs/skill-doctor/rust-skills@sha256:9eb0b2e0be74424d

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.5.1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 10, 2026.

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v1.5.1 latest2026-09-10 bd96e48 12,545 BA view · diff
v1.5.12026-09-10 eee8645 12,555 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12545 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

kalarislabs/skill-doctor · 14 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bjztl7tdcovsaqgy
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kalarislabs/skill-doctor/rust-skills
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9eb0b2e0be74424d3627d9ba9cf9819cfd977716dcf5aaa2b79ff03ec9617b05

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