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title: "RTK Rust Design Patterns - Air Market"
description: "You are adding a new part to a Rust command line tool, or untangling an old one, and you would rather not invent its structure alone. This is a set of familiar Rust shapes - wrapped types, builders,…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/design-patterns"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / RTK Rust Design Patterns

Skill by [rtk-ai](/@rtk-ai)

# RTK Rust Design Patterns

Pick the right Rust pattern before you build the module

## What this does

You are adding a new part to a Rust command line tool, or untangling an old one, and you would rather not invent its structure alone. This is a set of familiar Rust shapes - wrapped types, builders, automatic clean-up, trait-based behaviour and state machines - worked out for this project's filter modules. Reach for it when you sit down to design a module or reshape one that already exists.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Choose a pattern when starting a new module
- See Newtype, Builder, RAII, Trait Objects and State Machine applied to real filter modules
- Refactor an existing module against a known shape

## Information

**RTK Rust Design Patterns at a glance**

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| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [rtk-ai](/@rtk-ai) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 7 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [rtk-ai/rtk](https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/tree/15a0d2e7d6e3f33442675f502ed8bc868710dfd6/.claude/skills/design-patterns) |
| GitHub stars | 85,973 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 1,930, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of RTK Rust Design Patterns and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What RTK Rust Design Patterns's check was run against**

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| Commit | 15a0d2e7d6e3f33442675f502ed8bc868710dfd6 |
| Content hash | e656487c84a13f0aa0d9105f18457d2f47a6a4c35d99c40c031d92840d514b42 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/blob/15a0d2e7d6e3f33442675f502ed8bc868710dfd6/.claude/skills/design-patterns/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for RTK Rust Design Patterns](/security/design-patterns)

## About RTK Rust Design Patterns

A set of Rust design patterns gathered for work on RTK. It covers Newtype, Builder, RAII, Trait Objects, and State Machine.

Each pattern is presented the way it applies to CLI filter modules, so the examples match the kind of code these modules are actually made of.

Reach for it when you are designing a new module or refactoring one that already exists.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is RTK Rust Design Patterns safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of RTK Rust Design Patterns and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 15a0d2e7d6e3, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/design-patterns.

### How do I install RTK Rust Design Patterns?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/design-patterns on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/tree/15a0d2e7d6e3f33442675f502ed8bc868710dfd6/.claude/skills/design-patterns. Install from that link, not the branch.

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- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by rtk-ai](/@rtk-ai)

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