Shard Retry And Summarize Rust Test Runs With Ci Friendly Artifacts And Failure Isolation Using Cargo Nextest

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description: "Use cargo-nextest when an agent needs more reliable Rust test execution than cargo test, especially for sharding, retries, machine-readable output, and CI triage."
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# Shard, retry, and summarize Rust test runs with CI-friendly artifacts and failure isolation using cargo-nextest

Use cargo-nextest when an agent needs more reliable Rust test execution than cargo test, especially for sharding, retries, machine-readable output, and CI triage.

## Prerequisites

Rust toolchain, Cargo workspace or crate, and CI or local shell access.

## Installation

No source-backed install or usage instructions could be extracted automatically. Review the upstream project before running this skill in a sensitive workflow.

- Source: https://github.com/nextest-rs/nextest

## Documentation

- https://nexte.st/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/shard-retry-and-summarize-rust-test-runs-with-ci-friendly-artifacts-and-failure-isolation-using-cargo-nextest/)