rust-crate-publishing-readiness

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

1. Verify package metadata, license, README, repository, and categories.
2. Check public API, feature flags, examples, and docs from a consumer's view.
3. Run tests, docs, formatting, and feature-matrix checks.
4. Run cargo package or cargo publish --dry-run.
5. Inspect packaged contents for missing files and accidental secrets.
6. 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.