100-go-mistakes

A set of Go coding rules covering variable use, control flow, interfaces, structs, packages, imports, and slices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Go code, especially public APIs, constructors, methods, package structure, and slice handling.
Why use it?
It helps keep Go code easier to read, maintain, and review while avoiding common design and memory mistakes.

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/hypershift/100-go-mistakes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openshift/hypershift

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 691 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00000 $0.00691
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00345
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00069

Measured 3d ago against content hash c95fa7eea0d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

100-go-mistakes 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/100-go-mistakes.mdc · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

General Best Practices

  • Avoid variable shadowing.
  • Do not over-nest control flow (e.g., nested if or for blocks).
  • Avoid init() functions unless absolutely necessary.
  • Keep functions small and focused.
  • Prefer composition over inheritance (via embedding).
  • Use the functional options pattern for constructors where flexibility is needed.

Interfaces

  • Avoid defining interfaces until you need them.
  • Do not return interfaces from constructors or public APIs.
  • Define interfaces on the consumer side, not the producer side.
  • Keep interfaces small and focused (generally 1–2 methods).

Structs and Methods

  • Avoid embedding pointer types unless necessary.
  • Don’t overuse getters/setters — prefer public fields when it makes sense.
  • Use value receivers when the method doesn't mutate state or require pointer semantics.

Packages and Imports

  • Do not use util, common, or similarly vague package names.
  • Avoid package name collisions by using clear, unique names.
  • Do not expose unnecessary symbols (keep exported API minimal).

Slices

  • Distinguish between nil and empty slices.
  • Avoid memory leaks from slicing large arrays.
  • Always check the capacity when copying or appending slices.
  • Preallocate slice capacity when size is known ahead of time.

Maps

  • Always initialize maps before use.
  • Check existence with the two-value assignment (val, ok := m[key]).
  • Be aware that ranging over a map is in random order.

Error Handling

  • Always check errors — don’t ignore them.
  • Wrap errors with context when rethrowing.
  • Avoid panics except in truly unrecoverable cases.
  • Use errors.Is and errors.As for error comparison in Go 1.20+.

Goroutines and Concurrency

  • Always defer cancel() when using context.WithCancel.
  • Do not leak goroutines — ensure they exit cleanly.
  • Avoid data races — use mutexes or channels appropriately.
  • Never close a channel from the receiving side.

Testing and Debugging

  • Name tests consistently: TestXxx, BenchmarkXxx, ExampleXxx.
  • Use table-driven tests where possible.
  • Avoid global state in tests.
  • Use t.Helper() in helper functions to improve error tracebacks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 3d ago First seen · 90 lines · 691 tokens per session scan A c95fa7eea0d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

100-go-mistakes is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository openshift/hypershift (538 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 691 tokens. 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.