JetBrains/go-modern-guidelines is a set of instructions that helps AI coding agents write Go using language features and standard-library idioms supported by a project's Go version. It is for agents working on Go code who need to avoid outdated patterns and use newer syntax and APIs. The catalogue contains an agent skill and plugin for applying these guidelines.
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.
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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/plugins/jetbrains/go-modern-guidelines/plugin)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/jetbrains/go-modern-guidelines/plugin"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/jetbrains/go-modern-guidelines/plugin/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/plugins/jetbrains/go-modern-guidelines/plugin"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/plugins/jetbrains/go-modern-guidelines/plugin.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>Grade A, and why
modern-go-guidelines 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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
{
"name": "modern-go-guidelines",
"description": "Helps Claude Code write modern, idiomatic Go.",
"version": "1.1.1",
"author": {
"name": "JetBrains, GoLand Team",
"email": "[email protected]"
},
"keywords": ["go", "golang", "go-best-practices", "guidelines", "modernize"],
"skills": "./skills/"
}
What it installs
The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 32 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 12 lines scan A 4b6a1a7170bd
modern-go-guidelines is a plugin published in the GitHub repository JetBrains/go-modern-guidelines (3,863 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. 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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