idiomatic-go

idiomatic-go is a cursor rule for Cursor from openshift-eng/ai-helpers. It costs 281 tokens per session, scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of rules for writing Go code in the style recommended by Go's official Effective Go guide. Go is a programming language, and these rules cover formatting, naming, error handling, interfaces, and common coding patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while writing or reviewing Go code, especially to apply gofmt, run go vet, handle errors explicitly, and follow common Go conventions.
Why use it?
It keeps Go code consistent and helps catch avoidable problems such as ignored errors, unclear names, and incorrect error handling.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/openshift-eng/ai-helpers/idiomatic-go
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openshift-eng/ai-helpers

Made for: Cursor.

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.

agentmods badge for idiomatic-go

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 281 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 281 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00281 $0.00281
Opus 5 $0.00140 $0.00140
Sonnet 5 $0.00056 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00028

Measured 3d ago against content hash 1497e2c17bdf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idiomatic-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 3d 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.

.cursor/rules/idiomatic-go.mdc · 31 lines

What it actually says

Idiomatic Go Code

When writing Go code, always follow the guidelines from Effective Go.

Required Actions

  1. Before writing any Go code, reference https://go.dev/doc/effective_go and apply its principles
  2. Run gofmt -w . on all Go files before committing
  3. Run go vet to catch common mistakes
  4. Follow naming conventions: MixedCaps for exported, mixedCaps for unexported
  5. Handle all errors explicitly - never ignore error return values
  6. Use idiomatic patterns:
    • Prefer small interfaces
    • Share memory by communicating (use channels)
    • Return errors, don't panic
    • Use defer for cleanup
    • Accept interfaces, return concrete types

Common Anti-Patterns to Avoid

  • Using panic for normal error handling
  • Ignoring errors with _
  • Communicating by sharing memory instead of using channels
  • Large, unfocused interfaces
  • Package names with underscores or mixedCaps
  • Storing context.Context in structs

Reference

See Effective Go for comprehensive guidelines and Go Code Review Comments for additional best practices.

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. 3d ago First seen · 31 lines · 281 tokens per session scan A 1497e2c17bdf

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idiomatic-go is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository openshift-eng/ai-helpers (114 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 281 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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.