go-web-expert

go-web-expert is a skill for Claude Code from existential-birds/beagle. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,704 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of rules for building Go web applications, covering state, errors, input validation, tests, and documentation. It expects HTTP handlers to be explicit and testable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or reviewing Go HTTP handlers, JSON validation, middleware, error wrapping, httptest-based tests, and documentation for exported code.
Why use it?
It reduces common web-server problems such as unchecked errors, invalid input, shared mutable state, and missing handler tests. It also gives agents a fixed standard to apply during implementation or review.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the beagle-go plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating or reviewing Go HTTP handlers, JSON validation, middleware, error wrapping, httptest-based tests, and documentation for exported code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/existential-birds/beagle/go-web-expert
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 existential-birds/beagle --skill go-web-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/existential-birds/beagle

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install beagle-go, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,704 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 $0.00045 $0.03704
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.01482
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00741
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00370

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 606424da65ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-web-expert 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 1mo 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/beagle-go/skills/go-web-expert/SKILL.md · 451 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 451 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Go Web Expert System

Five non-negotiable rules for production-quality Go web applications. Every handler, every service, every line of code must satisfy all five.

Quick Reference

Topic Reference
Validation tags, custom validators, nested structs, error formatting references/validation.md
httptest patterns, middleware testing, integration tests, fixtures references/testing-handlers.md

Rules of Engagement

# Rule One-Liner
1 Zero Global State All handlers are methods on a struct; no package-level var for mutable state
2 Explicit Error Handling Every error is checked, wrapped with fmt.Errorf("doing X: %w", err)
3 Validation First All incoming JSON validated with go-playground/validator at the boundary
4 Testability Every handler has a _test.go using httptest with table-driven tests
5 Documentation Every exported symbol has a Go doc comment starting with its name

Hard gates (new HTTP handler)

Apply in order. Do not treat the next step as done until the Pass when for the current step is satisfied (objective evidence on disk or in test output—not “I checked mentally”).

  1. Dependencies (Rule 1) — Pass when: the handler is a method on a struct that holds every mutable dependency (db, logger, HTTP clients, caches); any new package-level var is only in the allowlist under What Is Allowed at Package Level. Evidence: constructor wires deps; no new forbidden globals from that list.

  2. Boundary (Rule 3) — Pass before calling service/domain code: Pass when: the request decodes into a tagged struct and validate.Struct (or equivalent) runs; invalid JSON and validation failures have defined HTTP status bodies (e.g. 400/422). Evidence: decode + validate.Struct appear in the handler; tests or manual run show 422/400 for bad input.

Read the full file on GitHub · 451 lines

Files

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.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 451 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 606424da65ce

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go-web-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository existential-birds/beagle (82 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,704 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-16.

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