rust-best-practices
rust-best-practices is an agent skill published by apollographql, listed under writing & docs. It lives in the apollographql/skills repository, which has 119 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-10-08.
Provides guidance on writing idiomatic Rust code based on Apollo GraphQL's best practices, covering topics such as code review, refactoring, ownership patterns, error handling, performance optimization, and testing.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads apollographql/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add apollographql/skills
Maintenance
Guide for writing idiomatic Rust code based on Apollo GraphQL's best practices handbook. Use this skill when: (1) writing new Rust code or functions, (2) reviewing or refactoring existing Rust code, (3) deciding between borrowing vs cloning or ownership patterns, (4) implementing error handling with Result types, (5) optimizing Rust code for performance, (6) writing tests or documentation for Rust projects.
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| rust-best-practices (this page) | apollographql | Guide for writing idiomatic Rust code based on Apollo GraphQL's best practices handbook. Use this skill when:… | 119 | 2026-10-23 |
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| git-workflow-and-versioning | addyosmani | Structures git workflow practices. Use when making any code change. Use when committing, branching, resolving… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
| source-driven-development | addyosmani | Grounds every implementation decision in official documentation. Use when you want to verify an approach agai… | 110,611 | 2026-10-13 |
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Common questions about rust-best-practices
- What does rust-best-practices do?
- Provides guidance on writing idiomatic Rust code based on Apollo GraphQL's best practices, covering topics such as code review, refactoring, ownership patterns, error handling, performance optimization, and testing.
- How do I install rust-best-practices?
- Run npx skills add apollographql/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes rust-best-practices?
- apollographql.
- Is rust-best-practices maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 119 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-23. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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