Rust Crate Publishing Readiness
Use this skill before publishing or sharing a Rust crate. It focuses on the consumer-facing package, not on deployment of a running service.
Core Workflow
- Verify package metadata, license, README, repository, and categories.
- Check public API, feature flags, examples, and docs from a consumer's view.
- Run tests, docs, formatting, and feature-matrix checks.
- Run
cargo packageorcargo publish --dry-run. - Inspect packaged contents for missing files and accidental secrets.
- Publish only from a clean, tagged, intentional release state.
Read Next
| Task | Load |
|---|---|
| Prepare a crate release PR | guidelines.md, workflows/prepare-crate-release.md |
| Review Cargo metadata and package contents | references/publishing-patterns.md |
| Diagnose dry-run failures | references/publishing-patterns.md |
Source Notes
Guidance is transformed and paraphrased from Herbert Wolverson, Advanced Hands-On Rust, especially Chapter 15 on sharing libraries and the earlier chapters on tests, docs, benchmarks, and features. Examples are original skeletons.
Source: hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins → plugins/LVTD-LLC/skills/skills/rust-crate-publishing-readiness/SKILL.md