sshine-create-rust-project

create-rust-project

A Claude Code skill that interactively scaffolds new Rust projects.

Installation

In Claude Code, run:

/plugin sshine/create-rust-project

Or via npx:

npx skills add sshine/create-rust-project

This installs the /new-rust-project skill into your Claude Code environment.

To install globally (available in all projects):

npx skills add -g sshine/create-rust-project

Usage

In any directory, open Claude Code and run:

/new-rust-project my-project

Or describe what you want naturally:

I want to create a new Rust project called my-project

The skill will ask about:

1. Project name — validated lowercase + hyphens
2. Project type — workspace, binary, or library
3. Short description — for Cargo.toml and README
4. Nix integration — crate2nix flake (recommended), simple shell.nix, or none
5. Error handling — thiserror (generates src/error.rs) or anyhow
6. Dev dependencies — insta, proptest, criterion, clap, tokio
7. CI — GitHub Actions (Nix-based), Lefthook
8. License — MIT, Apache-2.0, LGPL 3.0

Then generates all project files and optionally runs git init and nix flake lock.

Generated project features

• Cargo workspace with crates/ layout (or single-crate)
• Edition 2024, strict lints (unused_must_use = "deny", unwrap_used = "deny")
• Always included: serde, serde_json, tracing
• Custom Error enum + Result<T> alias (when thiserror is chosen)
• justfile with fmt, lint, test, build, ci, watch recipes
• rust-toolchain.toml for reproducible toolchain
• Optional: flake.nix with crate2nix + rust-overlay + flake-parts + devshell
• Optional: Nix-based GitHub Actions CI
• Pre-configured .claude/settings.json and CLAUDE.md

Design

Reference templates live in .claude/skills/new-rust-project/references/. Each template contains a documented pattern with {{placeholder}} syntax that the skill substitutes based on user answers.

This skill prototype validates the question flow and template content before building a standalone Rust CLI tool.