go-standards

A set of engineering rules for writing, reviewing, refactoring, and testing Go code, the programming language created at Google.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changing Go packages, command-line tools, libraries, parsers, configuration, errors, documentation, concurrency code, or tests.
Why use it?
It gives Go work a consistent approach focused on readable code, standard-library patterns, compatibility, and tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/leefowlercu/agent-kit/go-standards
Any agent
npx skills add leefowlercu/agent-kit --skill go-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/leefowlercu/agent-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 778 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 $0.00077 $0.00778
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00389
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00078

Measured 2d ago against content hash 73eb7945a574, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-standards 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 2d 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/go-standards/skills/go-standards/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Go Standards

Operating Mode

Use this skill to make Go code boring, explicit, well-tested, and compatible. Prefer the Go standard library's ordinary public-package style over clever runtime/compiler/internal tricks.

Before editing, inspect the nearest repo instructions, go.mod, package layout, existing tests, and local naming/error conventions. Treat nearer AGENTS.md or user instructions as higher priority than this skill.

Core Workflow

  1. Classify the task as implementation, bug fix, API design, refactor, review, or diagnosis.
  2. Read the target package and its tests before proposing code.
  3. Write or update tests first when behavior changes; use the standard testing package.
  4. Implement the smallest API and implementation that satisfies the tests and local conventions.
  5. Run gofmt on changed Go files, then run the narrowest meaningful go test command. Broaden to go test ./... when shared behavior or package boundaries changed.
  6. Report exact commands run and any unverified risk.

Default Standards

  • Design APIs around small functions, small interfaces, explicit contracts, and useful zero values.
  • Document exported identifiers with behavior, edge cases, concurrency guarantees, ownership rules, and compatibility notes.
  • Prefer plain data flow and early returns. Add abstraction only when it removes real duplication or clarifies a boundary.
  • Use package-private helpers for implementation details. Use internal/ for cross-package implementation sharing that must not become public API.
  • Return stable, contextual errors. Use wrapping when callers should match with errors.Is or errors.As; avoid exposing sentinels unless callers need a stable contract.
  • Keep tests deterministic, fast, and behavior-focused. Prefer table-driven unit tests for edge cases; add examples for public onboarding; add fuzz tests for parsers, decoders, escaping, tokenization, and boundary-heavy transformations.
  • Use log/slog for logging and prefer any over interface{} unless local compatibility requires otherwise.
  • Use build tags and platform-specific files for OS/architecture behavior instead of large runtime branches.
  • Preserve compatibility unless the user explicitly asks for a breaking change.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 2d ago First seen · 51 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 73eb7945a574

Subscribe to this mod's changes

go-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository leefowlercu/agent-kit (6 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 778 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 2026-08-31.

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