build-rust

A Rust project verification workflow that checks formatting, compilation, lint warnings, tests, and documentation tests in debug and release builds. Rust is a programming language, and Cargo is its build tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compile or check a Rust project, investigate build failures, and prepare CI build steps.
Why use it?
It brings common build and quality checks into one routine, making compiler errors, warnings, formatting issues, and test failures easier to find before release.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/d-oit/rust-2026-template/build-rust
Any agent
npx skills add d-oit/rust-2026-template --skill build-rust
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/d-oit/rust-2026-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 929 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00066 $0.00929
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00464
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00093

Measured 2d ago against content hash f2941da5b89f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

build-rust scanned grade B with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

**Fix**: `sudo apt-get install build-essential`
.agents/skills/build-rust/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: build-rust

When to Use

  • User asks for this skill's functionality

Purpose

Compile, test, and verify Rust projects following 2026 best practices.

Trigger Conditions

  • When asked to build, compile, or check a Rust project
  • When CI/CD pipeline needs to run build steps
  • When investigating build failures or warnings

Prerequisites

  • Rust toolchain installed (see rust-toolchain.toml)
  • cargo available in PATH
  • WSL2 environment (optional but recommended on Windows)

Steps

1. Check (fast feedback)

cargo check --all-targets --all-features 2>&1

2. Build (debug)

cargo build --all-targets 2>&1

3. Build (release)

cargo build --release 2>&1

4. Lint with Clippy

cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- \
  -D warnings \
  -W clippy::pedantic \
  -W clippy::nursery \
  -A clippy::module_name_repetitions

5. Format check

cargo fmt --all -- --check

6. Run tests (with nextest)

cargo nextest run --all-features

7. Doc tests

cargo test --doc --all-features

8. Report metrics

Call metrics-reporter skill.

Success Criteria

  • cargo check exits 0 with no errors
  • cargo clippy exits 0 with -D warnings
  • cargo fmt --check exits 0
  • All tests pass
  • No unsafe blocks without // SAFETY: comments

Common Issues

Slow incremental builds in WSL2

Symptom: Build takes >30s even for small changes Fix: Ensure target/ is on the Linux filesystem, not Windows mount. See .cargo/config.toml for WSL2 disk optimization.

VS Code reloads during build

Symptom: VS Code refreshes while cargo build runs Fix: Set files.watcherExclude for **/target/** in .vscode/settings.json

Linker errors on WSL2

Symptom: error: linker 'cc' not found Fix: sudo apt-get install build-essential

Rationalizations

Rationalization Reality
"cargo build passes, so the code is correct." Build success doesn't mean tests pass or lints are clean. Run the full pipeline.
"I'll skip clippy pedantic lints to save time." Pedantic lints catch real issues. Run them in CI at minimum.
"Just use cargo test, nextest isn't installed." Install nextest for parallel test execution — it's significantly faster.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 142 lines · 66 tokens per session scan B f2941da5b89f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

build-rust is a skill published in the GitHub repository d-oit/rust-2026-template (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 929 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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