golang-pro

golang-pro is a skill for Claude Code from Jeffallan/claude-skills. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,118 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building Go software, including concurrent programs and web services that communicate through REST or gRPC. It also covers Go code design, error handling, testing, linting, and performance checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or implementing Go services, goroutine and channel code, interfaces, generics, benchmarks, profiling, tests, or validation commands.
Why use it?
It provides a consistent workflow for checking Go code and avoiding common problems such as data races, unclear interfaces, and unmeasured slowdowns.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the fullstack-dev-skills plugin — 57 skills shipped together

not rated 11krepo +76 1mo ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 95 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it when designing or implementing Go services, goroutine and channel code, interfaces, generics, benchmarks, profiling, tests, or validation commands.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffallan/claude-skills/golang-pro
About the project

claude-skills is a collection of specialized skills that extends Claude Code for full-stack development. Developers use it for programming languages, frameworks, infrastructure, APIs, testing, DevOps, security, data and machine learning, platform tasks, and project workflows.

Jeffallan/claude-skills · 11,401 stars · on GitHub

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 Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill golang-pro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fullstack-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,118 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 30 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 30 Apr 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 $0.00095 $0.01118
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00559
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00112

Measured 12d ago against content hash 937bafb4bd14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

golang-pro 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/golang-pro/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Golang Pro

Senior Go developer with deep expertise in Go 1.21+, concurrent programming, and cloud-native microservices. Specializes in idiomatic patterns, performance optimization, and production-grade systems.

Core Workflow

  1. Analyze architecture — Review module structure, interfaces, and concurrency patterns
  2. Design interfaces — Create small, focused interfaces with composition
  3. Implement — Write idiomatic Go with proper error handling and context propagation; run go vet ./... before proceeding
  4. Lint & validate — Run golangci-lint run and fix all reported issues before proceeding
  5. Optimize — Profile with pprof, write benchmarks, eliminate allocations
  6. Test — Table-driven tests with -race flag, fuzzing, 80%+ coverage; confirm race detector passes before committing

Reference Guide

Load detailed guidance based on context:

Topic Reference Load When
Concurrency references/concurrency.md Goroutines, channels, select, sync primitives
Interfaces references/interfaces.md Interface design, io.Reader/Writer, composition
Generics references/generics.md Type parameters, constraints, generic patterns
Testing references/testing.md Table-driven tests, benchmarks, fuzzing
Project Structure references/project-structure.md Module layout, internal packages, go.mod

Core Pattern Example

Goroutine with proper context cancellation and error propagation:

// worker runs until ctx is cancelled or an error occurs.
// Errors are returned via the errCh channel; the caller must drain it.
func worker(ctx context.Context, jobs <-chan Job, errCh chan<- error) {
    for {
        select {
        case <-ctx.Done():
            errCh <- fmt.Errorf("worker cancelled: %w", ctx.Err())
            return
        case job, ok := <-jobs:
            if !ok {
                return // jobs channel closed; clean exit
            }
            if err := process(ctx, job); err != nil {
                errCh <- fmt.Errorf("process job %v: %w", job.ID, err)
                return
            }
        }
    }
}

func runPipeline(ctx context.Context, jobs []Job) error {
    ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 30*time.Second)
    defer cancel()

    jobCh := make(chan Job, len(jobs))
    errCh := make(chan error, 1)

    go worker(ctx, jobCh, errCh)

    for _, j := range jobs {
        jobCh <- j
    }
    close(jobCh)

    select {
    case err := <-errCh:
        return err
    case <-ctx.Done():
        return fmt.Errorf("pipeline timed out: %w", ctx.Err())
    }
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 125 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 937bafb4bd14

Subscribe to this mod's changes

golang-pro is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jeffallan/claude-skills (11,401 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,118 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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