release-rust

A release workflow for Rust projects, the programming language, that checks the code, updates its version, creates a Git tag, and publishes a GitHub Release through CI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to release a Rust project, publish a package to crates.io (Rust’s package registry), bump the version, update release notes, and tag the code.
Why use it?
It keeps the steps for preparing a new version in one repeatable process and checks common release requirements before publishing. CI means automated checks run by the project service.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 888 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. 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 $0.00068 $0.00888
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00444
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00089

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4a3c1bb16877, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

release-rust scanned grade C with 2 findings 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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -s https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/<your-crate-name> | python3 -m json.tool | grep '"name"'

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/<your-crate-name> | python3 -m json.tool | grep '"name"'
.agents/skills/release-rust/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: release-rust

When to Use

  • User asks for this skill's functionality

Purpose

Create and publish a new release of the Rust project.

Prerequisites

  • All CI checks pass on main
  • CHANGELOG.md updated
  • cargo-dist installed

Steps

0. Verify crate name availability on crates.io (FIRST TIME PUBLISH ONLY)

Before the very first publish, confirm the crate name is not already taken:

# Check via cargo search
cargo search <your-crate-name>

# Or via API (404 = available, 200 = taken)
curl -s https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/<your-crate-name> | python3 -m json.tool | grep '"name"'

# Or open in browser: https://crates.io/crates/<your-crate-name>

See .agents/skills/crates-io-name-check/SKILL.md for full naming guidance and best practices.

Do not proceed with publishing if the name is taken — choose a unique name first.

1. Pre-release checks

cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
cargo nextest run --all-features
cargo audit && cargo deny check

2. Bump version in Cargo.toml

cargo update --workspace

3. Commit and tag

git add Cargo.toml Cargo.lock CHANGELOG.md
git commit -m "chore: release vX.Y.Z"
git tag -a vX.Y.Z -m "Release vX.Y.Z"
git push origin main --tags

4. GitHub Release via CI

Pushing a tag triggers .github/workflows/release.yml:

  • Builds binaries for all targets
  • Creates GitHub Release with assets
  • Optionally publishes to crates.io

Version Scheme

  • MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH (Semantic Versioning)
  • Breaking = MAJOR, features = MINOR, fixes = PATCH

Success Criteria

  • Tag on GitHub
  • Release with binaries created
  • CHANGELOG updated
  • Crate name verified unique on crates.io (first publish)

Rationalizations

Rationalization Reality
"I'll skip the pre-release checks to save time." Publishing broken code breaks downstream users. Always run the full check suite.
"The changelog can be updated after release." Users read the changelog to understand what changed. Update it before tagging.
"I'll just push the tag directly." Use git tag -a with a message. Tags without messages are unhelpful in history.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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 · 129 lines · 68 tokens per session scan C 4a3c1bb16877

Subscribe to this mod's changes

release-rust is a skill published in the GitHub repository d-oit/rust-2026-template (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 888 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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