ownership

Rust Ownership and Borrowing

Ownership rules, borrowing, slices, and lifetimes.

When to Use This Skill

Activate when:

• Understanding ownership and move semantics
• Working with references and borrowing rules
• Using string or array slices
• Annotating or debugging lifetimes
• Fixing borrow checker errors

For ownership rules, borrowing patterns, slices, and lifetime annotations, see references/ownership.md.

Anti-fabrication

This skill follows core:anti-fabrication. Every claim about ownership, borrowing, and lifetime rules is verified against the official Rust Book chapters cited in sources.md — not inferred from generic familiarity with the language. Before asserting borrow-checker behavior this skill and its references do not cover, check the installed Rust toolchain's documentation rather than guessing.