A tool for semantic analysis of Go code using gopls, the official Go language server. It understands code types and relationships rather than treating files as plain text.

Use it to find definitions and references, locate implementations, and inspect which functions call one another. It is useful when navigating or understanding a Go codebase.

It makes it easier to trace code accurately when names are repeated, types are involved, or a function’s callers are spread across a project.

gopls-mcp — Plugin for Claude Code by xieyuschen

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/xieyuschen/gopls-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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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, 1 hook, 1 MCP server cost 62 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

gopls-mcp 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.

plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 21 lines

What it actually says

{
  "name": "gopls-mcp",
  "version": "1.0.7",
  "description": "Semantic Go code analysis using gopls — type-aware definitions, references, implementations, and call hierarchy.",
  "author": {
    "name": "xieyuschen",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://gopls-mcp.org",
  "repository": "https://github.com/xieyuschen/gopls-mcp.git",
  "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
  "keywords": ["go", "golang", "gopls", "mcp", "semantic", "code-analysis"],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "mcpServers": {
    "gopls-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/run.sh"
    }
  }
}

Contents

What it installs

The manifest is a name and a version. 1 skill, 1 hook, 1 MCP server travel with it, and installing the plugin installs all of them — 62 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.

1mo ago First seen · 21 lines scan A 1d7211708739

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gopls-mcp is a plugin published in the GitHub repository xieyuschen/gopls-mcp (60 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. 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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