Rust Symbol Analyzer

When you need to understand a Rust codebase quickly, this skill pulls symbol hierarchies using LSP and organizes them by type. You can analyze the whole project or drill into specific files, filtering for structs, traits, functions, or modules. The output is surprisingly readable: nested module trees, tables of symbols with their locations and metadata, even complexity metrics to spot refactoring candidates. It's basically running documentSymbol and workspaceSymbol operations under the hood, then formatting the results into something you'd actually want to look at. Most useful when joining a new project or auditing what's where before a big refactor.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add zhanghandong/rust-skills --skill rust-symbol-analyzer --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Rust Symbol Analyzer

Analyze project structure by examining symbols across your Rust codebase.

Usage

/rust-symbol-analyzer [file.rs] [--type struct|trait|fn|mod]

Examples:

/rust-symbol-analyzer - Analyze entire project
/rust-symbol-analyzer src/lib.rs - Analyze single file
/rust-symbol-analyzer --type trait - List all traits in project

LSP Operations

1. Document Symbols (Single File)

Get all symbols in a file with their hierarchy.

LSP(
  operation: "documentSymbol",
  filePath: "src/lib.rs",
  line: 1,
  character: 1
)

Returns: Nested structure of modules, structs, functions, etc.

2. Workspace Symbols (Entire Project)

Search for symbols across the workspace.

LSP(
  operation: "workspaceSymbol",
  filePath: "src/lib.rs",
  line: 1,
  character: 1
)

Note: Query is implicit in the operation context.

Workflow

User: "What's the structure of this project?"
    │
    ▼
[1] Find all Rust files
    Glob("**/*.rs")
    │
    ▼
[2] Get symbols from each key file
    LSP(documentSymbol) for lib.rs, main.rs
    │
    ▼
[3] Categorize by type
    │
    ▼
[4] Generate structure visualization

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