Hidden Dependencies

Some crates in your battery pack are internal tooling — not something users would want to install. Every battery pack should at minimum hide the battery-pack build dependency (used for doc generation):

[package.metadata.battery-pack]
hidden = ["battery-pack"]

Hidden crates don’t appear in the TUI picker, in cargo bp show output, or in the auto-generated docs.

Adding more hidden crates

Any internal plumbing crates should be hidden:

[package.metadata.battery-pack]
hidden = ["battery-pack", "bphelper-manifest", "snapbox"]

Globs

You can use glob patterns:

[package.metadata.battery-pack]
hidden = ["serde*"]

Hiding everything

If your battery pack is purely templates (no curated crates for users to pick), hide all dependencies:

[package.metadata.battery-pack]
hidden = ["*"]