effective-go

effective-go is a plugin for Claude Code from patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins. Its manifest loads nothing; the 1 skill it bundles cost 70 tokens per session together, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of coding rules for writing Go, the programming language. It combines common Go style guidance with practices for errors, comments, simplification, and hand-written test mocks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Go code, especially error handling, tests, mocks, comments, and final change checklists.
Why use it?
It gives Go changes a consistent structure and helps catch code-quality issues before work is considered complete.

Plugin for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code plugin manifest.

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing Go code, especially error handling, tests, mocks, comments, and final change checklists.

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Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins
/plugin install effective-go
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/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured The manifest loads nothing itself; its 1 skill cost 70 tokens a session between them.
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.
Security

Grade A, and why

effective-go 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 yesterday.

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/effective-go/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 13 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "effective-go",
  "description": "Opinionated Go writing discipline — idiomatic Go from Effective Go, the Google style guide, the Go Proverbs and the Gruntwork guide, with a stated house preference for natural-language, wrappable error messages, hand-written Fn-field mocks that fail loudly, comment and simplification discipline folded in, and a per-change checklist the agent runs before calling Go code done.",
  "version": "1.7.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Patrick D'appollonio",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/tree/main/plugins/effective-go",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": ["go", "golang", "style", "idiomatic", "errors", "testing", "code-quality"]
}
Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 70 tokens a session between them. Each is measured on its own page, and each can be installed alone.

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.

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  10. 1mo ago First seen · 13 lines scan A 8f1cddbcf835

Subscribe to this mod's changes

effective-go is a plugin published in the GitHub repository patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins (9 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. 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 2026-08-31.

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