scaffold-go-library

scaffold-go-library is a skill for Claude Code from cboone/agent-harness-plugins. It costs 122 tokens per session (2,688 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project starter for building a reusable Go library, with release notes, code linting, GitHub Actions checks, and a Makefile.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start a Go module that other programs can import, with automated checks across multiple Go versions.
Why use it?
It removes the boilerplate needed to organize, check, and release a new Go package.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the scaffold-go-library plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to start a Go module that other programs can import, with automated checks across multiple Go versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/scaffold-go-library
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 cboone/agent-harness-plugins --skill scaffold-go-library
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cboone/agent-harness-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install scaffold-go-library, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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README.md
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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,688 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 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 5.1 $0.00122 $0.02688
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01344
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00538
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00269

Measured 4d ago against content hash edc24834666c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scaffold-go-library 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 4d 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.

plugins/scaffold-go-library/skills/scaffold-go-library/SKILL.md · 277 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 277 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scaffold Go Library

Generate the full boilerplate for a new Go library project.

Workflow

1. Gather Project Information

If the user provided a project name in their request, use it as the project name and skip asking for it. Still ask for the remaining parameters (description, minimum Go version, example tests) unless already provided in the user's initial request.

Ask the user for these parameters:

  • Project name -- kebab-case, used as the module path and directory name (e.g., stipple)
  • Short description -- one sentence, used in README, GoReleaser release header, and doc.go
  • Minimum Go version -- the oldest Go version to support in CI (default: 1.24)
  • Include example tests? -- whether to generate an example_test.go with a basic Example() function

If the user already provided some or all of these in their initial request, do not re-ask. Derive what you can from context.

2. Detect User Identity

Detect the user's GitHub username and full name for use in templates:

# GitHub username (for module paths, URLs)
gh api user -q .login
# Full name (for LICENSE copyright)
git config user.name

If either command fails or produces no output, ask the user to provide the value. Use the GitHub username wherever templates reference GITHUB-USERNAME and the full name wherever they reference COPYRIGHT-HOLDER.

3. Verify the Target Directory

The project should be scaffolded in a directory named after the project. If the current directory is already named after the project and is empty (or nearly empty), use it. Otherwise, create a subdirectory.

Derive PACKAGE-NAME from PROJECT-NAME by removing hyphens (e.g., my-lib becomes mylib). If the result looks awkward, confirm with the user.

If the directory already contains Go files, warn the user before proceeding.

4. Initialize Git

Skip if already inside a git repository.

git init

5. Initialize go.mod

Read ./references/go-mod.md for the canonical go mod init invocation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 277 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. 4d ago First seen · 277 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A edc24834666c

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scaffold-go-library is a skill published in the GitHub repository cboone/agent-harness-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,688 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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