diff --git a/.github/workflows/rust.yml b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
index 7b3e1ff00..018a58e3a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           cd rust
           cargo test --verbose
+      - name: Test publish crates
+        run: |
+          cd rust
+          cargo publish --dry-run
 
   lint:
     name: cargo:lint
diff --git a/rust/ruby-rbs/src/node/mod.rs b/rust/ruby-rbs/src/node/mod.rs
index f78daa0d9..28d09e5ef 100644
--- a/rust/ruby-rbs/src/node/mod.rs
+++ b/rust/ruby-rbs/src/node/mod.rs
@@ -16,11 +16,12 @@ pub fn parse(rbs_code: &[u8]) -> Result<SignatureNode<'_>, String> {
     unsafe {
         let start_ptr = rbs_code.as_ptr() as *const i8;
         let end_ptr = start_ptr.add(rbs_code.len());
+        let bytes = rbs_code.len() as i32;
 
         let raw_rbs_string_value = rbs_string_new(start_ptr, end_ptr);
 
         let encoding_ptr = &rbs_encodings[RBS_ENCODING_UTF_8 as usize] as *const rbs_encoding_t;
-        let parser = rbs_parser_new(raw_rbs_string_value, encoding_ptr, 0, rbs_code.len() as i32);
+        let parser = rbs_parser_new(raw_rbs_string_value, encoding_ptr, 0, bytes);
 
         let mut signature: *mut rbs_signature_t = std::ptr::null_mut();
         let result = rbs_parse_signature(parser, &mut signature);
@@ -34,7 +35,18 @@ pub fn parse(rbs_code: &[u8]) -> Result<SignatureNode<'_>, String> {
         if result {
             Ok(signature_node)
         } else {
-            Err(String::from("Failed to parse RBS signature"))
+            let error_message = (*parser)
+                .error
+                .as_ref()
+                .filter(|error| !error.message.is_null())
+                .map(|error| {
+                    std::ffi::CStr::from_ptr(error.message)
+                        .to_string_lossy()
+                        .into_owned()
+                })
+                .unwrap_or_else(|| String::from("Failed to parse RBS signature"));
+
+            Err(error_message)
         }
     }
 }
@@ -267,6 +279,14 @@ impl SymbolNode<'_> {
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_parse_error_contains_actual_message() {
+        let rbs_code = "class { end";
+        let result = parse(rbs_code.as_bytes());
+        let error_message = result.unwrap_err();
+        assert_eq!(error_message, "expected one of class/module/constant name");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_parse() {
         let rbs_code = r#"type foo = "hello""#;
diff --git a/rust/ruby-rbs/tests/sanity.rs b/rust/ruby-rbs/tests/sanity.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ed5c1900
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/ruby-rbs/tests/sanity.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+use std::path::Path;
+
+use ruby_rbs::node::parse;
+
+fn collect_rbs_files(dir: &Path) -> Vec<std::path::PathBuf> {
+    let mut files = Vec::new();
+
+    for entry in std::fs::read_dir(dir).unwrap() {
+        let entry = entry.unwrap();
+        let path = entry.path();
+
+        if path.is_dir() {
+            files.extend(collect_rbs_files(&path));
+        } else if path.extension().is_some_and(|ext| ext == "rbs") {
+            files.push(path);
+        }
+    }
+
+    files
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn all_included_rbs_can_be_parsed() {
+    let repo_root = Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../..");
+    let dirs = [repo_root.join("core"), repo_root.join("stdlib")];
+
+    let mut files: Vec<_> = dirs.iter().flat_map(|d| collect_rbs_files(d)).collect();
+    files.sort();
+    assert!(!files.is_empty());
+
+    let mut failures = Vec::new();
+
+    for file in &files {
+        let content = std::fs::read_to_string(file).unwrap();
+
+        if let Err(e) = parse(content.as_bytes()) {
+            failures.push(format!("{}: {}", file.display(), e));
+        }
+    }
+
+    assert!(
+        failures.is_empty(),
+        "Failed to parse {} RBS file(s):\n{}",
+        failures.len(),
+        failures.join("\n")
+    );
+}