rust-async-patterns
Build Reliable Rust Async Systems
Async Rust can be difficult to design, debug, and scale safely. This skill gives practical Tokio patterns for tasks, channels, errors, shutdown, streams, and resource management.
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Test it
Using "rust-async-patterns". A developer asks how to fetch many URLs without unbounded tasks.
Expected outcome:
The skill recommends stream processing with a concurrency limit, result collection, and separate logging for task errors.
Using "rust-async-patterns". A team wants shutdown behavior for background workers.
Expected outcome:
The response describes CancellationToken, signal handling, and a short cleanup window before the server returns.
Using "rust-async-patterns". A library author needs async repository traits.
Expected outcome:
The output explains async_trait, typed error handling, and trait object usage while noting project-specific database types.
Security Audit
SafeThe reported external command and Ruby backtick findings are false positives from Markdown examples, inline code, and Rust Tokio task spawning APIs. The network, SQL, and obfuscation hits are documentation examples or resource links with no executable skill code. No prompt injection or malicious intent was found in SKILL.md.
Risk Factors
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🌐 Network access (5)
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wshobson-rust-async-patterns
2026-08-21
sickn33-rust-async-patterns
2026-08-21
Skillstore Score
Why this score Evidence Confidence: HighWhat You Can Build
Design Tokio Services
Plan task structure, channel usage, timeouts, and shutdown behavior for a new async service.
Refactor Blocking Code
Convert synchronous workflows into bounded async pipelines with clear error handling and tracing.
Review Async Architecture
Check an existing Rust service for unbounded tasks, lock misuse, missing cancellation, and weak observability.
Try These Prompts
Explain how futures, tasks, and the Tokio runtime work for my new Rust service. Keep it focused on practical decisions.
I have several async workers that need to send progress and completion events. Recommend Tokio channel types and explain tradeoffs.
Review my async Rust design for error propagation, timeouts, cancellation, and graceful shutdown. Identify missing safeguards and better patterns from the skill.
Create a refactor plan for a high-throughput Tokio application. Include task structure, concurrency limits, tracing, resource management, and failure handling.
Best Practices
- Set explicit concurrency limits for spawned work and stream processing.
- Propagate errors with context and log join errors from spawned tasks.
- Design cancellation, timeouts, and cleanup paths before production use.
Avoid
- Spawning unbounded tasks without backpressure or lifecycle tracking.
- Holding asynchronous locks across awaits in shared state code.
- Copying placeholder database or network examples without adapting types and error handling.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this skill run Rust code?
Which async runtime does it focus on?
Can it help debug async deadlocks?
Does it cover async traits?
Is the guidance production ready?
Can Claude, Codex, and Claude Code use it?
Developer Details
Author
wshobsonLicense
MIT
Skillstore revision
r1
Version notice
The author did not declare a version.
Repository
https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/main/plugins/systems-programming/skills/rust-async-patternsRef
64ca8af0f54a325752f08bd54e52151061ea659a
Maintenance freshness
7/21/2026
Usage
14 downloads · 287 views
File structure
📄 SKILL.md