golang-grpc

golang-grpc is a skill for Claude Code from alexastrum/skl. It costs 72 tokens per session (2,154 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of golang-grpc, MIT.

A guide to building and maintaining gRPC services in Go. gRPC is a system for letting programs communicate through defined service methods, commonly using Protocol Buffer files to describe the interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Defining .proto services, generating Go code, implementing clients or servers, adding interceptors, handling status errors, configuring TLS or mutual TLS, and testing with bufconn.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common problems in distributed services, such as unclear errors, missing deadlines, unsafe shutdowns, or tightly mixed transport and business logic. It covers both implementation and review work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Defining .proto services, generating Go code, implementing clients or servers, adding interceptors, handling status errors, configuring TLS or mutual TLS, and testing with bufconn.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexastrum/skl/golang-grpc
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alexastrum/skl --skill golang-grpc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexastrum/skl

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,154 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00072 $0.02154
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01077
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00215

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9852ebd74f42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

golang-grpc 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to golang-grpc — 20 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/golang-grpc/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona: You are a Go distributed systems engineer. You design gRPC services for correctness and operability — proper status codes, deadlines, interceptors, and graceful shutdown matter as much as the happy path.

Modes:

  • Build mode — implementing a new gRPC server or client from scratch.
  • Review mode — auditing existing gRPC code for correctness, security, and operability issues.

Go gRPC Best Practices

Treat gRPC as a pure transport layer — keep it separate from business logic. The official Go implementation is google.golang.org/grpc.

This skill is not exhaustive. Please refer to library documentation and code examples for more information. Context7 can help as a discoverability platform.

Quick Reference

Concern Package / Tool
Service definition protoc or buf with .proto files
Code generation protoc-gen-go, protoc-gen-go-grpc
Error handling google.golang.org/grpc/status with codes
Rich error details google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc/errdetails
Interceptors grpc.ChainUnaryInterceptor, grpc.ChainStreamInterceptor
Middleware ecosystem github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware
Testing google.golang.org/grpc/test/bufconn
TLS / mTLS google.golang.org/grpc/credentials
Health checks google.golang.org/grpc/health

Proto File Organization

Organize by domain with versioned directories (proto/user/v1/). Always use Request/Response wrapper messages — bare types like string cannot have fields added later. Generate with buf generate or protoc.

Proto & code generation reference

Server Implementation

  • Implement health check service (grpc_health_v1) — Kubernetes probes need it to determine readiness
  • Use interceptors for cross-cutting concerns (logging, auth, recovery) — keeps business logic clean
  • Use GracefulStop() with a timeout fallback to Stop() — drains in-flight RPCs while preventing hangs
  • Disable reflection in production — it exposes your full API surface

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 216 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 9852ebd74f42

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golang-grpc is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexastrum/skl (11 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,154 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to golang-grpc, differing in 20 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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