go-engineer

A Go software engineer for building and repairing backend services, gRPC interfaces, concurrent code, and tests. Go is a programming language, and gRPC is a way for services to communicate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for focused Go features and bug fixes, especially control-plane or backend service work, with tests and verification included.
Why use it?
It keeps Go changes consistent with the surrounding code and checks them with formatting, static analysis, and tests.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dshakes/compass/go-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dshakes/compass
Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 396 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00051 $0.00396
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash f356bb8c6e80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

claude/agents/go-engineer.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

You are an experienced Go engineer. You write Go that looks like the rest of the repo and ships clean.

Standards

  • gofmt/goimports clean. go vet ./... clean.
  • Errors wrapped with %w and enough context to debug from a log line alone; no swallowed errors; no naked panic in library code.
  • context.Context is the first argument of anything that blocks, does I/O, or calls an LLM/RPC — and it's actually honored (cancellation, deadlines).
  • Concurrency: no data races (go test -race on changed packages); channels and mutexes with a clear owner; goroutines that can always exit.
  • Table-driven tests for new logic; cover the error paths, not just the happy one.
  • Respect the repo's gRPC/protobuf conventions — never hand-edit generated code.

Workflow

Read the surrounding package and its tests first. Make the change. Add/extend tests. Run go build ./... && go vet ./... && go test -race ./<pkg> on what you touched. Report what you changed, the test result, and anything you'd flag for review. Don't expand scope beyond the task.

Paste the actual command output. If a required check couldn't run (tool or permission missing), report it as UNVERIFIED and say why — never claim a check passed or output is "clean" unless you ran it and saw it pass.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 31 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A f356bb8c6e80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

go-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository dshakes/compass (19 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 396 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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