iced skill

An agent skill for building cross-platform GUI applications in Rust with the iced framework (The Elm Architecture).

• The four TEA concepts: State / Messages / Update / View
• Built-in widgets, layout (column/row/container/stack/grid), sizing & alignment
• Tasks (Task::perform, Task::sip, batch, map, abortable) and Subscriptions (time::every, keyboard::listen, event::listen)
• Theming & styling — Theme, Palette, widget style closures, and the production-grade Catalog pattern for custom widgets
• Custom widgets — implementing Widget, operations, overlays, Canvas, custom shaders
• Architecture — screen composition via Screen/Action enums, Message design, project layout
• Real-world patterns distilled from Halloy and icebreaker: daemon multi-window, pane_grid layouts, Catalog-based theming, streaming boot with Task::sip
• Anti-patterns — 14 common mistakes and how to avoid them

SKILL.md                  # entry point: when-to-use, quick start, rules of thumb, index
references/
  widgets.md              # widget inventory + builder idioms
  tasks-subscriptions.md  # Task + Subscription patterns
  styling-theming.md      # Theme, Palette, style closures
  custom-widgets.md       # implementing Widget, Catalog, operations, overlays
  architecture.md         # scaling apps, screen composition, layout
  real-world.md           # patterns from Halloy & icebreaker
  anti-patterns.md        # common mistakes

With an agent that supports the skills ecosystem:

npx skills add <your-owner>/iced-skill

Or copy this directory into your agent's skills folder (e.g. ~/.agents/skills/iced/).

Grounded in the iced source tree (examples, core/, widget/, runtime/), the official book, docs.rs/iced, and the architecture of Halloy and icebreaker.