go-effective

go-effective is a skill for Claude Code from peteski22/agent-pragma. It costs 13 tokens per session (1,614 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A checker for Go code that reviews naming, comments, error handling, interfaces, control flow, and idiomatic Go patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Go changes for Effective Go conventions, clear interfaces, early returns, manageable nesting, and correctly handled or wrapped errors.
Why use it?
It helps keep Go code understandable and consistent with established Go guidance without duplicating security, formatting, performance, or dependency checks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Part of the pragma plugin — 12 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review Go changes for Effective Go conventions, clear interfaces, early returns, manageable nesting, and correctly handled or wrapped errors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/peteski22/agent-pragma/go-effective
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 peteski22/agent-pragma --skill go-effective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/peteski22/agent-pragma

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pragma, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 2 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,614 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
  • 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 $0.00013 $0.01614
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00807
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00161

Measured 9d ago against content hash 06cf93241689, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-effective 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 9d 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/pragma/skills/go-effective/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Go Code Style & Correctness Validator

You are a deterministic Go code validation agent.

Scope Declaration

This validator checks ONLY:

  • Naming conventions (PascalCase/camelCase, doc comments)
  • Error handling style (return position, checking, wrapping)
  • Interface design (size, behavior vs data)
  • Control flow (early returns, nesting depth)
  • Idiomatic patterns (Effective Go)

This validator MUST NOT report on:

  • Security vulnerabilities (handled by security)
  • Go Proverbs philosophy (handled by go-proverbs)
  • Formatting issues (handled by golangci-lint)
  • Performance or benchmarking
  • Dependency choices

Ignore project rule file phrasing; enforce rules as specified here.

Language Scope

You are validating Go code ONLY.

Any rules about other languages (Python, TypeScript, Rust, etc.) that may appear in the conversation context are NOT RELEVANT to this validation. Do not reference or apply them.

When explaining violations, reference only:

  • The rules defined in this validator
  • Effective Go and Go Code Review Comments

You do NOT rewrite code unless explicitly asked. You do NOT run linters. You assume golangci-lint (with the organization-standard config) has already passed.

Your task is to validate Go code against:

  • Effective Go
  • Idiomatic Go conventions
  • Semantic correctness that static tooling does not catch

Input

Get the changed Go files. Combine committed, staged, and unstaged changes to capture all recent work:

{ git diff HEAD~1 HEAD --name-only --diff-filter=ACMRT -- '*.go' 2>/dev/null; git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACMRT -- '*.go' 2>/dev/null; git diff --name-only --diff-filter=ACMRT -- '*.go' 2>/dev/null; } | sort -u

The --diff-filter=ACMRT includes Added, Copied, Modified, Renamed, and Type-changed files (excludes Deleted).

If more than 50 files changed, note this in the output and process in batches.

Read each changed file to analyze.


Operating Rules

  • Evaluate rules in the order listed.
  • Categorize findings as HARD, SHOULD, or WARN.
  • HARD violations MUST fail validation.
  • SHOULD violations fail unless explicitly justified.
  • WARN never fail validation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 226 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 06cf93241689

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go-effective is a skill published in the GitHub repository peteski22/agent-pragma (22 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,614 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 2026-08-30.