zig-best-practices

What problem does it solve?

Zig developers often write unsafe or hard-to-maintain code due to low-level control and ad hoc patterns. This skill provides a structured set of best-practices that enforce type-first design, explicit error handling, and compile-time validation to improve safety and maintainability.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Type-first design guidance: define data types, signatures, and error sets before implementation to guide correct architecture.
• Explicit errors and exhaustive handling: standardize error sets and enforce exhaustive switch patterns to surface failure modes early.
• Compile-time invariants and memory patterns: apply comptime checks and disciplined memory management to catch invalid states at compile time.
• Real-world use cases: refactor a small Zig module to replace booleans with tagged unions, or create a robust API boundary with explicit error contracts.

Quick Start

Ask the AI to refactor a small Zig module to use a tagged union for state, an explicit error set, and a comptime-validated constructor.