alarm

The Sentinel

Raise alarms by level and frequency, the way `log` raises messages.

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Dossier

What alarm does.

Provides a type system and a procedural macro for declaring alarms with levels and frequencies, following the EE191 standard.

From the crate: “A type system and procedural macros for alarm system functionality, based on the EE191 standard.”

Codename: The Sentinel
Role: Alarm levels
Character: Alert but not hysterical. Knows the difference between a warning and a siren, and will tell you which one this is.
Domain: Developer tools
Enlisted: 8 October 2026
Last release: v0.0.5, 8 October 2026
Keywords: alarm

Use cases

Put it to work.

Declare alarm types with levels, like log levels, through a macro.
Model alarm-system behaviour in a type-checked way.

Getting started

Call it in.

Add it to a Rust project, then follow the example. The full API is on docs.rs.

Install

cargo add alarm
cargo install alarm

Build with a prompt

Add the Rust crate `alarm` (version 0.0.5) to this project with `cargo add alarm`. I want to use it for this: Provides a type system and a procedural macro for declaring alarms with levels and frequencies, following the EE191 standard. Before writing code, read its README at https://crates.io/crates/alarm and the API docs at https://docs.rs/alarm. Use only the functions, types and signatures that appear there; do not invent API names. Write a minimal working example and one test that runs it.

Paste this into Claude Code or another coding agent.

Specs

Version: 0.0.5 (pre-0.1, API may change)
License: MIT or Apache-2.0
Edition: Rust 2021
MSRV: 1.60.0
Size: 113 lines of code, 24 of comments
Package: 4.3 KB compressed
Dependencies: proc-macro2, quote, syn
Used by: 0 crates on crates.io
Binaries: alarm
Docs: docs.rs, built
Repository: cryptopatrick/alarm · 0★ · 0 forks · 0 open issues · pushed 17 Nov 2024

Release history

Version	Date	Downloads
0.0.5	8 Oct 2026	9

Documentation

The manual.

The crate's README as published on crates.io. The full API reference is on docs.rs.

Read the README

Macro

A procedural macro allow users to easily create alarms with specific levels and frequencies, similar to how log allows for logging at different levels.

Resources

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