go

A set of conventions and patterns for writing Go, a programming language designed for clear and maintainable software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing, refactoring, reviewing, or debugging Go files, or when running tools such as gofmt, go test, go build, go vet, and golangci-lint.
Why use it?
It helps code follow common Go practices, making it easier to read, review, format, test, build, and debug.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,941 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 $0.00112 $0.01941
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00194

Measured 2d ago against content hash d79adbe018b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go 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.

skills/go/SKILL.md · 337 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 337 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Go Language Idioms

Go favors simplicity, readability, and explicit behavior. Work with the language's conventions, not against them.


Core Philosophy

  • Simplicity over cleverness — clear, boring code is better than clever, obscure code
  • Explicit over implicit — errors are values, not exceptions
  • Composition over inheritance — embed types, implement interfaces
  • Share by communicating — don't communicate by sharing memory

Formatting

Let gofmt handle it. Don't fight the formatter.

gofmt -w .        # Format all files
go fmt ./...      # Format package

All Go code in the ecosystem follows gofmt. There is no debate.


Naming

General Rules

Scope Style Example
Exported PascalCase ReadFile, HTTPClient
Unexported camelCase readFile, httpClient
Packages lowercase, single word bytes, http, bufio
Acronyms All caps HTTP, URL, ID (not Http, Url, Id)

Package Names

  • Short, concise, evocative
  • No underscores or mixedCaps
  • The package name is part of the type name: bufio.Reader, not bufio.BufReader

Getters and Setters

// ❌ Don't prefix getters with "Get"
func (u *User) GetName() string

// ✅ Just use the field name
func (u *User) Name() string

// ✅ Setters use "Set" prefix
func (u *User) SetName(name string)

Interface Names

One-method interfaces use method name + -er suffix:

Method Interface
Read Reader
Write Writer
Close Closer
String Stringer

Functions

Multiple Return Values

Go functions return (result, error) instead of throwing:

func ReadFile(path string) ([]byte, error) {
    f, err := os.Open(path)
    if err != nil {
        return nil, err
    }
    defer f.Close()
    return io.ReadAll(f)
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 337 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. 2d ago First seen · 337 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A d79adbe018b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

go is a skill published in the GitHub repository nrdxp/predicate (10 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,941 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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