diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 412fba3..0c7f2c5 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,13 +3,37 @@ name = "native-diff"
 version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2024"
 rust-version = "1.88"
-description = "A terminal-native, read-only diff viewer"
+description = "Fast terminal diff viewer and embeddable Rust diff engine"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
+repository = "https://github.com/plannotator/diffs-rs"
+readme = "README.md"
+keywords = ["diff", "patch", "terminal", "tui", "ratatui"]
+categories = ["command-line-utilities", "development-tools", "text-processing"]
+# Publishing stays off until the crate no longer needs the [patch.crates-io]
+# overrides below. crates.io ignores [patch], so a published build would
+# silently use unpatched upstream syntect, fancy-regex and libgit2-sys.
 publish = false
+# Ship only what the library and binary need to build, plus the docs a reader
+# of the crate needs. Tests, fixtures, tools, reports and vendor/ stay in Git.
+include = [
+    "/src/**/*.rs",
+    "/assets/pierre/**",
+    "/examples/embedded_viewer.rs",
+    "/Cargo.toml",
+    "/Cargo.lock",
+    "/README.md",
+    "/EMBEDDING.md",
+    "/LICENSE",
+    "/NOTICE.md",
+]
 
 [features]
-default = ["clipboard"]
+default = ["clipboard", "dev-tty"]
 clipboard = ["dep:arboard"]
+# Read keyboard input from /dev/tty, so the standalone viewer works when the
+# patch arrives on stdin. Embedding hosts that own their own input can turn
+# this off with `default-features = false`.
+dev-tty = ["crossterm/use-dev-tty"]
 delivery-trace = ["syntect/syntax-timing"]
 regex-census = ["syntect/regex-census"]
 owner-census = ["regex-census", "syntect/owner-census"]
@@ -22,9 +46,9 @@ libgit2-sys = { path = "vendor/libgit2-sys" }
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0"
 clap = { version = "4.6", features = ["derive"] }
-crossterm = { version = "0.29", features = ["use-dev-tty"] }
+crossterm = "0.29"
 git2 = { version = "0.21", default-features = false, features = ["vendored-libgit2"] }
-hashbrown = { version = "=0.16.1", default-features = false }
+hashbrown = { version = "0.16.1", default-features = false }
 libc = "0.2"
 memchr = "2.8"
 nix = { version = "0.28", default-features = false, features = ["fs", "poll"] }
@@ -41,7 +65,7 @@ unicode-segmentation = "1.13"
 unicode-width = "0.2"
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "macos")'.dependencies]
-arboard = { version = "=3.6.1", default-features = false, optional = true }
+arboard = { version = "3.6.1", default-features = false, optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 fancy-regex = "0.16.2"
diff --git a/EMBEDDING.md b/EMBEDDING.md
index 50fc15e..422c2d0 100644
--- a/EMBEDDING.md
+++ b/EMBEDDING.md
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ The patches provide required syntax-engine behavior and the corrected local Git
 Do not substitute registry or system versions to make dependency resolution succeed.
 Keep the host's generated lockfile and use `--locked` for subsequent builds.
 Diagnostic crate features are not required for embedding.
+The default `dev-tty` feature makes Crossterm read keyboard input from `/dev/tty`, which the standalone viewer needs when a patch arrives on stdin.
+Crossterm features are shared by the whole build, so a host that reads its own input should add `default-features = false` and enable `clipboard` only if it wants the native clipboard.
 
 ## Ownership