go-api-design

go-api-design is a skill for Claude Code from CasLubbers/code-design-skills. It costs 104 tokens per session (1,086 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A set of rules for designing Go packages and exported APIs, including small public interfaces, context-first functions, functional options, and backward-compatible changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating or restructuring Go packages and designing public APIs that remain consistent and maintainable.
Why use it?
It helps keep Go libraries easier to use and reduces avoidable breaking changes as they grow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the code-design-skills plugin — 28 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for creating or restructuring Go packages and designing public APIs that remain consistent and maintainable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/caslubbers/code-design-skills/go-api-design
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.

Any agent
npx skills add CasLubbers/code-design-skills --skill go-api-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CasLubbers/code-design-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install code-design-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,086 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 unknown 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 5.1 $0.00104 $0.01086
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00543
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00109

Measured 8d ago against content hash 25c0bb385757, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-api-design 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 8d 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.

skills/go-api-design/SKILL.md · 93 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 93 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 25c0bb385757

Subscribe to this mod's changes

go-api-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository CasLubbers/code-design-skills (1 stars, last pushed 14d ago), with no licence file. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 1,086 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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