I got tired of setting up the same things every new Rust project. Clippy config, CI pipelines, linker flags, pre-commit hooks, cargo-nextest... all from scratch, every time. And then doing it again every time I switched AI coding tools — re-explaining the project structure, the lint rules, what's off-limits.
So I built rust-2026-template. Click "Use this template", point your agent at it, and you're coding — not configuring.
Here's what's actually in it.
The setup I always end up with anyway
Rust 2024 edition, MSRV 1.87 pinned via rust-toolchain.toml. Workspace layout from day one — even for small projects. Refactoring a single-crate project into a workspace later is just pain you don't need:
