diff --git a/lib/native_toolchain_rs.dart b/lib/native_toolchain_rs.dart
index 8b30de2..3d1150b 100644
--- a/lib/native_toolchain_rs.dart
+++ b/lib/native_toolchain_rs.dart
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import 'package:native_toolchain_rs/src/crate_resolver.dart';
 import 'package:native_toolchain_rs/src/process_runner.dart';
 import 'package:native_toolchain_rs/src/toml_parsing.dart';
 
+export 'package:native_toolchain_rs/src/exception.dart';
+
 /// The mode to build the Rust crate with.
 enum BuildMode {
   /// Build in release mode; i.e., `cargo build --release`
diff --git a/lib/src/build_runner.dart b/lib/src/build_runner.dart
index 0a4eefc..d4a513c 100644
--- a/lib/src/build_runner.dart
+++ b/lib/src/build_runner.dart
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import 'package:hooks/hooks.dart';
 import 'package:logging/logging.dart';
 import 'package:native_toolchain_rs/native_toolchain_rs.dart';
 import 'package:native_toolchain_rs/src/crate_resolver.dart';
-import 'package:native_toolchain_rs/src/exception.dart';
 import 'package:native_toolchain_rs/src/process_runner.dart';
 import 'package:native_toolchain_rs/src/toml_parsing.dart';
 import 'package:path/path.dart' as path;
diff --git a/lib/src/exception.dart b/lib/src/exception.dart
index 464bab7..4926809 100644
--- a/lib/src/exception.dart
+++ b/lib/src/exception.dart
@@ -5,11 +5,7 @@ import 'package:meta/meta.dart';
 // NOTE: the API for our exceptions is currently experimental
 // ignore_for_file: public_member_api_docs
 
-/// # WARNING
-/// This is experimental!
-/// It may change on any new release without notice!
-/// Please file an issue with your use-case for it, if you do use it.
-@experimental
+/// An [Exception] representing a failure while trying to build Rust assets.
 sealed class RustBuildException implements Exception {}
 
 /// # WARNING
@@ -67,3 +63,8 @@ final class RustProcessException implements RustBuildException {
       'innerProcessException: ${inner ?? 'none'}'
       ')';
 }
+
+// NOTE: this is here so that end-users can't exhaustively pattern match
+// (and thus gives us some API flexibility for new types)
+// ignore: unused_element
+final class _NoBreakingChangeForNewExceptions implements RustBuildException {}