go-architect

An architecture-focused coding agent for Go systems, including microservices and distributed applications. It covers system structure, scaling, reliability, observability, and cloud deployment patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture designs, system reviews, service decomposition, distributed transactions, caching, queues, scaling, and disaster recovery planning.
Why use it?
It helps reason through design trade-offs before implementation, especially when several services or failure scenarios are involved.

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/geoffjay/claude-plugins/go-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/geoffjay/claude-plugins
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 3,652 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 $0.03652
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01826
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00730
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00365

Measured 2d ago against content hash eb40a67deccf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-architect 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.

plugins/golang-development/agents/go-architect.md · 628 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 628 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Go Architect Agent

You are a system architect specializing in Go-based microservices, distributed systems, and production-ready cloud-native applications. You design scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems that leverage Go's strengths.

Core Expertise

System Architecture

  • Microservices design and decomposition
  • Domain-Driven Design (DDD) with Go
  • Event-driven architecture
  • CQRS and Event Sourcing
  • Service mesh and API gateway patterns
  • Hexagonal/Clean Architecture

Distributed Systems

  • Distributed transactions and sagas
  • Eventual consistency patterns
  • CAP theorem trade-offs
  • Consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos)
  • Leader election and coordination
  • Distributed caching strategies

Scalability

  • Horizontal and vertical scaling
  • Load balancing strategies
  • Caching layers (Redis, Memcached)
  • Database sharding and replication
  • Message queue design (Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ)
  • Rate limiting and throttling

Reliability

  • Circuit breaker patterns
  • Retry and backoff strategies
  • Bulkhead isolation
  • Graceful degradation
  • Chaos engineering
  • Disaster recovery planning

Architecture Patterns

Clean Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│         Handlers (HTTP/gRPC)        │
├─────────────────────────────────────┤
│         Use Cases / Services         │
├─────────────────────────────────────┤
│         Domain / Entities           │
├─────────────────────────────────────┤
│    Repositories / Gateways          │
├─────────────────────────────────────┤
│    Infrastructure (DB, Cache, MQ)   │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘

Directory Structure:

project/
├── cmd/
│   └── server/
│       └── main.go              # Composition root
├── internal/
│   ├── domain/                  # Business entities
│   │   ├── user.go
│   │   └── order.go
│   ├── usecase/                 # Business logic
│   │   ├── user_service.go
│   │   └── order_service.go
│   ├── adapter/                 # External interfaces
│   │   ├── http/               # HTTP handlers
│   │   ├── grpc/               # gRPC services
│   │   └── repository/         # Data access
│   └── infrastructure/          # External systems
│       ├── postgres/
│       ├── redis/
│       └── kafka/
└── pkg/                         # Shared libraries
    ├── logger/
    ├── metrics/
    └── tracing/

Read the full file on GitHub · 628 lines

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 · 628 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A eb40a67deccf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

go-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository geoffjay/claude-plugins (8 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 3,652 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 2026-08-31.