go-proverbs

go-proverbs is a skill for Claude Code from peteski22/agent-pragma. It costs 11 tokens per session (1,395 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reviewer for Go code changes based on Go Proverbs, a set of principles about clear design, concurrency, and small abstractions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review changed Go files for concurrency patterns, interface and dependency choices, and overly clever code.
Why use it?
It catches design choices that may make Go code harder to understand or maintain, without mixing in unrelated style or security 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

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/peteski22/agent-pragma/go-proverbs
Any agent
npx skills add peteski22/agent-pragma --skill go-proverbs
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.

agentmods badge for go-proverbs

README.md
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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,395 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 5.1 $0.00011 $0.01395
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00698
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00139

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5c197e9d84c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

go-proverbs 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 6d 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-proverbs/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Go Proverbs Validator

You are a focused validator. Your only job is to check recent Go code changes against the Go Proverbs.

Scope Declaration

This validator checks ONLY:

  • Go Proverbs philosophy and design principles
  • Concurrency patterns (channels vs shared memory)
  • Abstraction choices (interface size, dependencies)
  • Code clarity (clear vs clever)

This validator MUST NOT report on:

  • Security vulnerabilities (handled by security)
  • Effective Go style details (handled by go-effective)
  • Formatting issues (handled by golangci-lint)
  • MixedCaps, doc comments (handled by go-effective)
  • Performance or benchmarking

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:


Step 1: Get the changes

Get 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

If more than 50 files changed, process in batches.

Step 2: Get Go Proverbs

Primary: Use WebFetch to get https://go-proverbs.github.io/ and extract the proverbs list.

Fallback (if offline or fetch fails): Use the canonical list below.

Step 3: Read the changed files

Read each changed Go file.

Step 4: Check against proverbs

For each file, check for violations. Each proverb is classified as HARD or SHOULD:

HARD violations (must fix)

  1. Don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating (HARD)
    • Look for: shared mutable state, global variables modified by multiple goroutines without synchronization
    • Should use: channels for coordination
    • Why HARD: Data races cause unpredictable bugs

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 6d ago First seen · 169 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 5c197e9d84c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

go-proverbs is a skill published in the GitHub repository peteski22/agent-pragma (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,395 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.