Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cxuu/golang-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/cxuu/golang-skills/go-lintingWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cxuu/golang-skills/go-linting)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cxuu/golang-skills/go-linting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cxuu/golang-skills/go-linting/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cxuu/golang-skills/go-linting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cxuu/golang-skills/go-linting.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00084 | $0.01505 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00042 | $0.00753 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00301 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00151 |
Grade A, and why
go-linting 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Go Linting
Core Principle
More important than any "blessed" set of linters: lint consistently across a codebase.
Consistent linting helps catch common issues and establishes a high bar for code quality without being unnecessarily prescriptive.
Resource Routing
scripts/setup-lint.sh- Run when generating a.golangci.yml, validating the first lint pass, or producing JSON metadata.assets/golangci.yml- Use as the v2 golangci-lint baseline for established projects.
Setup Procedure
- Create
.golangci.ymlwithscripts/setup-lint.shor copyassets/golangci.yml - Run
golangci-lint run ./... - If errors appear, fix them category by category (formatting first, then vet, then style)
- Re-run until clean
After generating .golangci.yml, run golangci-lint config verify --config .golangci.yml
to verify the configuration schema before relying on lint results.
Minimum Recommended Linters
These linters catch the most common issues while maintaining a high quality bar:
| Linter | Purpose |
|---|---|
| errcheck | Ensure errors are handled |
| goimports | Format code and manage imports |
| revive | Common style mistakes (modern replacement for golint) |
| govet | Analyze code for common mistakes |
| staticcheck | Various static analysis checks |
Note:
reviveis the modern, faster successor to the now-deprecatedgolint.
Lint Runner: golangci-lint
Use golangci-lint as your lint runner. See the example .golangci.yml from uber-go/guide.
Example Configuration
Use assets/golangci.yml as the maintained example. It targets
golangci-lint v2 (verified with 2.10.1 on 2026-06-19), keeps goimports
under formatters, and enables the core linters plus common production
additions.
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 155 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 94777a4a67f1
go-linting is a skill published in the GitHub repository cxuu/golang-skills (159 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,505 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.
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