use-modern-go

use-modern-go is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rsturla/eternal-images. It costs 32 tokens per session (535 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of use-modern-go, MIT.

A Go coding guide that checks the Go version used by a project and provides matching advice for writing or changing Go code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before writing, fixing, or refactoring Go files to list the relevant guidelines and explain them.
Why use it?
It helps avoid relying on outdated Go practices or advice that does not fit the project's Go version.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it before writing, fixing, or refactoring Go files to list the relevant guidelines and explain them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rsturla/eternal-images/use-modern-go
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 rsturla/eternal-images --skill use-modern-go
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rsturla/eternal-images

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 535 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00032 $0.00535
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 12d ago against content hash 16bd5c8d4c14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-modern-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/run-tool.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to use-modern-go — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

lumina/files/_base/usr/share/workbench/agents/skills/use-modern-go/SKILL.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

Modern Go Guidelines CLI

Always write modern, idiomatic Go code. Use the Modern Go Guidelines CLI as the source of truth for modern Go idioms that may be newer than your knowledge cutoff.

Run: sh "<skill-dir>/scripts/run-tool.sh"

First run and approvals:

On first use, the wrapper installs the Modern Go Guidelines CLI in a local cache directory.

Subcommands:

  • list
  • explain

Before editing Go code:

  1. Call the wrapper's list subcommand for the relevant Go file.

    Prefer passing the file you are about to edit:

    sh "<skill-dir>/scripts/run-tool.sh" list --file-path path/to/file.go
    

    The CLI resolves the applicable Go version from go.mod, go.work, the local Go toolchain, or an explicit override.

  2. If the target Go version is already known, you may pass it directly:

    sh "<skill-dir>/scripts/run-tool.sh" list --go-version 1.24
    
  3. Read the complete list output before deciding which guidelines apply.

    The list output is ordered newest first. Read the full output because older supported guidelines may still apply.

    Do not pipe the output through head, tail, grep, sed, or any other truncating/filtering command. Important guidelines may otherwise be missed.

  4. Treat returned guidelines as authoritative for modern Go style choices in code you are editing.

    If a guideline applies, follow it even when nearby code or repository convention uses an older pattern. Skip it only when it would not compile, would change behavior, or clearly does not match the edited code. Before skipping a returned guideline that seems relevant, call the wrapper's explain subcommand for that guideline ID.

Call explain only when a specific guideline may apply and you need the detailed explanation or examples. Request only the guideline IDs you intend to evaluate or apply:

sh "<skill-dir>/scripts/run-tool.sh" explain sync_waitgroup_go

Multiple guideline IDs may be requested as positional arguments:

sh "<skill-dir>/scripts/run-tool.sh" explain atomic_types errors_as_type

Do not call explain without guideline IDs. Use list first to discover the short guideline list for the target Go version, then call explain for the specific returned IDs that need more context.

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. 12d ago First seen · 62 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 16bd5c8d4c14

Subscribe to this mod's changes

use-modern-go is a skill published in the GitHub repository rsturla/eternal-images (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 535 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to use-modern-go, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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