go-naming

go-naming is a skill for Claude Code from cxuu/golang-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,671 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to choosing clear, idiomatic names for Go packages, types, functions, methods, variables, constants, and receivers. A receiver is the short variable name used by a method to refer to its value.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it while designing or reviewing names anywhere in a Go codebase, especially public APIs and new packages or types.
Why use it?
It avoids repetitive, vague, or non-idiomatic names that make Go code harder to read and use. The rules also cover common naming cases such as initialisms and exported identifiers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the golang-skills plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it while designing or reviewing names anywhere in a Go codebase, especially public APIs and new packages or types.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cxuu/golang-skills/go-naming
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 cxuu/golang-skills --skill go-naming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cxuu/golang-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install golang-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,671 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 16 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00071 $0.01671
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00835
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00167

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5c9968ebc392, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-naming 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-naming.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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-naming/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Go Naming Conventions

Resource Routing

  • scripts/check-naming.sh - Run when checking SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE constants, Get-prefixed getters, generic package names, or receivers named this/self.
  • references/IDENTIFIERS.md - Read when choosing names for initialisms, exported identifiers, or package-level symbols.
  • references/REPETITION.md - Read when names repeat package, receiver, type, or local context.
  • references/VARIABLES.md - Read when choosing local variable names, receiver names, or loop identifiers.

Core Principle

Names should:

  • Not feel repetitive when used
  • Take context into consideration
  • Not repeat concepts that are already clear

Naming is more art than science—Go names tend to be shorter than in other languages.


Naming Decision Flow

What are you naming?
├─ Package       → Short, lowercase, singular noun (no underscores, no mixedCaps)
├─ Interface     → Method name + "-er" suffix when single-method (Reader, Writer)
├─ Receiver      → 1-2 letter abbreviation of type (c for Client); consistent across methods
├─ Constant      → MixedCaps; use iota for enums; no ALL_CAPS
├─ Exported func → Verb or verb-phrase in MixedCaps; no Get prefix for getters
├─ Variable      → Length proportional to scope distance
│                  ├─ Tiny scope (1-7 lines) → single letter (i, n, r)
│                  ├─ Medium scope           → short word (count, buf)
│                  └─ Package-level / wide   → descriptive (userAccountCount)
└─ Any name      → Check: does it repeat package name or context? If yes, shorten it

MixedCaps (Required)

Normative: All Go identifiers must use MixedCaps.

Underscores are allowed only in: test functions (TestFoo_InvalidInput), generated code, and OS/cgo interop.


Package Names

Normative: Packages must be lowercase with no underscores.

Short, lowercase, singular nouns. Avoid generic names like util, common, helper — prefer specific names: stringutil, httpauth, configloader.

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 12d ago First seen · 186 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 5c9968ebc392

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go-naming is a skill published in the GitHub repository cxuu/golang-skills (159 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,671 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.