sota-golang

sota-golang is a skill for Claude Code from martinholovsky/SOTA-skills. It costs 145 tokens per session (2,111 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

A set of engineering rules for writing or reviewing Go programs, using Go 1.25 and later as its baseline. It covers code structure, concurrency, web servers, security, errors, and performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Handling errors, designing packages and interfaces, using goroutines and channels safely, hardening HTTP services, and avoiding risks such as SQL injection, path traversal, weak randomness, and unsafe dependencies.
Why use it?
It helps an agent spot common Go defects and security risks while keeping new code consistent with current engineering practices.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the sota-skills plugin — 42 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Handling errors, designing packages and interfaces, using goroutines and channels safely, hardening HTTP services, and avoiding risks such as SQL injection, path traversal, weak randomness, and unsafe dependencies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinholovsky/sota-skills/sota-golang
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 martinholovsky/SOTA-skills --skill sota-golang
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/martinholovsky/SOTA-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sota-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 42 skills, 1 hook.

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 sota-golang

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 145 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,111 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 unknown 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 $0.00145 $0.02111
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01056
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00422
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00211

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1495dbb0534c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sota-golang 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.

skills/sota-golang/SKILL.md · 116 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 12d ago First seen · 116 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A 1495dbb0534c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sota-golang is a skill published in the GitHub repository martinholovsky/SOTA-skills (19 stars, last pushed today), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 2,111 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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