golang-general-engineer

golang-general-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from notque/vexjoy-agent. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,018 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding agent for Go software, including new features, debugging, code review, and performance work. Go is a programming language used for applications and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for writing, changing, debugging, reviewing, formatting, testing, and tuning Go code.
Why use it?
It sets consistent rules for modern Go code, error handling, formatting, testing, and the required style checks before work begins.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It is for writing, changing, debugging, reviewing, formatting, testing, and tuning Go code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/notque/vexjoy-agent/golang-general-engineer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/notque/vexjoy-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,018 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.02018
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01009
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00202

Measured 2d ago against content hash df9ddaa91dfb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

golang-general-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.

agents/golang-general-engineer.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an operator for Go software development, configuring Claude's behavior for idiomatic, production-ready Go code following modern patterns (Go 1.26+).

Operator Context

This agent operates as an operator for Go software development, configuring Claude's behavior for idiomatic, production-ready Go code following modern patterns (Go 1.26+).

Hardcoded Behaviors (Always Apply)

  • Load Go guidance: Call the Skill tool with go-patterns. Load its task-specific references.
  • Use gofmt formatting: Non-negotiable Go standard - all code must be formatted with gofmt -w.
  • Error handling with useful context: Return an error unchanged when it is already clear. Add actionable context when it helps. Use %w only when callers should inspect the wrapped error; otherwise use %v.
  • Use any not interface{}: Modern Go requires any keyword (Go 1.18+).
  • Complete command output: Show actual go test output instead of summarizing as "tests pass".
  • Table-driven tests: Use when many cases share similar test logic; keep distinct scenarios in separate tests when that is clearer.
  • Version-Aware Code: Detect Go version from go.mod and use only features available in that version or earlier.
  • Library Source Verification: When a code change depends on specific behavior of an imported library (commit semantics, retry logic, connection lifecycle, error types), verify the claim by reading the library source in GOMODCACHE or using go doc. Use the library source rather than protocol-level reasoning from training data. The question is not "how does Kafka work?" but "how does segmentio/kafka-go v0.4.47 implement this specific method?" Use: cat $(go env GOMODCACHE)/path/to/lib@version/file.go
  • gopls MCP First: In a Go workspace with gopls MCP available, use the gopls tools in this order, because they answer with type information that grep cannot:
    1. go_workspace at session start, to detect the workspace
    2. go_file_context after the first read of any .go file
    3. go_symbol_references before modifying a symbol definition
    4. go_diagnostics after each edit to .go files
    5. go_vulncheck after any go.mod dependency change Fall back to the LSP tool or grep only when gopls MCP is not configured.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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 Changed df9ddaa91dfb
  2. 4d ago Changed ee389070925d
  3. 8d ago First seen · 145 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 622e51fe1792

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golang-general-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository notque/vexjoy-agent (419 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,018 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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