go-development

go-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 21 tokens per session (554 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Go development guide covering readable service code, concurrency, table-driven tests, and performance benchmarks. Go is a programming language often used for network services and command-line tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps build Go services, handle errors and context, coordinate concurrent work, write table-driven tests, and create benchmarks.
Why use it?
It helps avoid common problems with unchecked errors, goroutines that never stop, unsafe shared state, and unmeasured performance changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps build Go services, handle errors and context, coordinate concurrent work, write table-driven tests, and create benchmarks.

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npx agentmods add skills/jxoesneon/ciel/go-development
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add jxoesneon/Ciel --skill go-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 554 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 $0.00021 $0.00554
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00277
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00055

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5901bbd353c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-development 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 4d 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.

skills/go-development/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

CIEL ADAPTATION: Go Development (Simplicity & Concurrency)

This skill formalizes the development of performant, readable Go services. it prioritizes the "Errors are Values" philosophy and idiomatic concurrency.

Idiomatic Standards

  1. Zero Value Utility: Design types so their zero value is ready to use (e.g., sync.Mutex, bytes.Buffer).
  2. Interface Discipline: "Accept interfaces, return structs." Define interfaces where they are used (consumer-side).
  3. Error Handling: ALWAYS check errors immediately. Wrap with context: fmt.Errorf("do X: %w", err).
  4. Returning Early: Handle errors first; keep the "happy path" unindented.

Concurrency Mandates

  • Context First: Pass context.Context as the first argument to all long-running or I/O-bound functions.
  • Goroutine Hygiene: Never start a goroutine without knowing how it will stop. Use errgroup for coordination.
  • Channel Safety: Prefer communication by channels over shared memory. Use buffered channels only when necessary for performance.

TDD & Performance (testing)

  • Table-Driven Tests: Use anonymous structs for test cases.
  • Benchmarks: Mandate BenchmarkX(b *testing.B) for all performance-critical hot paths.
  • Fuzzing (1.18+): Use f.Fuzz for complex parsers or input validation logic.
  • Race Detector: ALWAYS run tests with -race in CI.

Anti-Patterns

  • Panic for Control Flow: Using panic instead of returning an error.
  • Global Mutable State: Initializing DB or Loggers in init() instead of using dependency injection.
  • Naked Returns: Using unnamed return variables in functions longer than 10 lines.
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. 4d ago First seen · 52 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 5901bbd353c4

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go-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 554 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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