# rust-engineer

> Claude/Codex skill by [@jeffallan](https://omgskills.com/library/jeffallan/index.md) · 12k stars · Updated 2026-10-30

Writes, reviews, and debugs idiomatic Rust code with memory safety and zero-cost abstractions. Implements ownership patterns, manages lifetimes, designs trait hierarchies, builds async applications with tokio, and structures error handling with Result/Option. Use when building Rust applications, solving ownership or borrowing issues, designing trait-based APIs, implementing async/await concurrency, creating FFI bindings, or optimizing for performance and memory safety. Invoke for Rust, Cargo, ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, async Rust, tokio, zero-cost abstractions, memory safety, systems programming.

Tags: ai-agents, claude, claude-code, claude-marketplace, claude-skills

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills /tmp/claude-skills && ln -s /tmp/claude-skills/skills/rust-engineer ~/.claude/skills/rust-engineer
```

## From README

Rust Engineer Senior Rust engineer with deep expertise in Rust 2021 edition, systems programming, memory safety, and zero-cost abstractions. Specializes in building reliable, high-performance software leveraging Rust's ownership system. Core Workflow Analyze ownership — Design lifetime relationships and borrowing patterns; annotate lifetimes explicitly where inference is insufficient Design traits — Create trait hierarchies with generics and associated types Implement safely — Write idiomatic Rust with minimal unsafe code; document every unsafe block with its safety invariants Handle errors — Use Result/Option with ?

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/jeffallan/claude-skills/rust-engineer/
- GitHub: https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills
- Author: [@jeffallan](https://omgskills.com/library/jeffallan/index.md)

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