Starter-kit for writing services in Go using Kubernetes.
ardanlabs/service is a Go starter kit for building scalable web services designed to run in Kubernetes. It provides an organized starting structure based on domain-driven and data-oriented architecture, Go practices, and a small dependency set. The catalogue skills and instruction help coding agents work with services built from this starter kit.
This repository also configures its own agents. See what service tells them →
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Prefer defaulting and naked switches over if/else chains for shallow branching logic in Go. Use when writing or refactoring conditional logic with 1-3 branches.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Use when adding a cross-cutting concern (OTEL tracing, logging, metrics, caching, auth) to a business domain, creating files under business/domain//extensions/, or adding the extension seam (ExtBusiness/Extension) to a bus package.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Enforce primitive-at-edges / strong-types-in-Business layering and the toBus/fromBusResponse/toDB converter pattern. Use when writing, editing, or auditing Go files under app/, business/domain/, or .../stores/db.
Skill Claude CodeCodex needs its repo
Service Diffguard: read-only PR review lenses for correctness, error visibility, comment truthfulness, test coverage, type/contract boundaries, and simplification across every language in this repo (Go, Vue/JS/SCSS, Rego, protobuf, SQL, Helm/YAML, shell). Use for PR review, pre-commit review, unstaged-diff review, or…
Skill Claude Code
Apply modern Go syntax guidelines based on the project's Go version. Use whenever writing, editing, or reviewing Go (.go) code — not only when explicitly asked for guidelines.
At most 3 mods per repository are shown here, and a mod shipped inside a plugin is left to that plugin's page — the rest are on their repository pages: