go-core-idioms

go-core-idioms is a skill for Claude Code from fusengine/agents. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,277 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to everyday Go programming style, including error handling, structured logging, generics, interfaces, and modern standard-library improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Go code that does not involve goroutines, channels, cancellation, or other concurrency features.
Why use it?
It helps make sequential Go code easier to understand and maintain by handling errors explicitly, keeping interfaces small, and using consistent logging and types.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the fuse-go plugin — 5 skills, 1 agent shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fusengine/agents/go-core-idioms
Any agent
npx skills add fusengine/agents --skill go-core-idioms
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fusengine/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fuse-go, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for go-core-idioms

README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,277 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00037 $0.01277
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00128

Measured today against content hash 85730689ab6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-core-idioms 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 today.

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/go-expert/skills/go-core-idioms/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Go Core Idioms

Idiomatic sequential Go for 1.26. For anything touching goroutines, channels, errgroup, or context cancellation, use go-concurrency instead.

Agent Workflow (MANDATORY)

Before ANY implementation, spawn 3 agents in parallel, one Agent call each with a name:

  1. fuse-ai-pilot:explore-codebase - Map existing error/logging/interface patterns
  2. fuse-ai-pilot:research-expert - Verify latest Go docs via Context7/Exa
  3. mcp__context7__query-docs - Confirm stdlib signatures (errors, log/slog)

After implementation, run fuse-ai-pilot:sniper for validation.


Overview

Feature Description
Error handling Explicit if err != nil, %w wrapping, errors.Join, errors.AsType (1.26)
Structured logging log/slog stdlib — handlers, attrs, groups, LogValuer
Generics Type params, constraints, self-referential types (1.26)
Interfaces Small, consumer-side — "accept interfaces, return structs"
Modernizers go fix auto-applies dozens of idiom/API fixers (1.26)

Critical Rules

  1. Explicit if err != nil - No sugar exists; never discard with _ = err
  2. Wrap with %w, not %v - Preserves the chain for errors.Is/As/AsType
  3. Accept interfaces, return structs - Define interfaces where consumed, not where produced
  4. Value receivers by default - Use pointer receivers only for mutation or large structs
  5. Run go fix + go vet - Let modernizers migrate to current idioms (1.26)

Architecture

internal/
├── user/
│   ├── user.go          # struct + value-receiver methods
│   ├── errors.go        # sentinel + typed errors
│   └── repository.go    # consumer-side interface, concrete struct returned
└── platform/
    └── logging/
        └── logger.go    # slog setup, one *slog.Logger injected downward

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. today Changed 85730689ab6b
  2. 2d ago First seen · 135 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 9b0fc097524a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

go-core-idioms is a skill published in the GitHub repository fusengine/agents (25 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,277 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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