golang-grpc

golang-grpc is a skill for Claude Code from samber/cc-skills-golang. It costs 72 tokens per session (2,343 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for building gRPC services in Go. gRPC is a way for programs to call functions on other programs, using Protocol Buffers to define the messages and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing Go gRPC servers, clients, and .proto files, or when handling interceptors, deadlines, status errors, TLS, testing, and shutdowns.
Why use it?
It helps avoid inconsistent service definitions, unclear errors, unsafe connections, and reliability problems in distributed systems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the cc-skills-golang plugin — 46 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing Go gRPC servers, clients, and .proto files, or when handling interceptors, deadlines, status errors, TLS, testing, and shutdowns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samber/cc-skills-golang/golang-grpc
About the project

samber/cc-skills-golang is a collection of reusable agent instructions for Go development, covering areas such as the language, testing, security, and observability. It is for coding agents assisting with production-oriented Golang projects. The catalogue entries are its Go-specific skills, rule, plugin, and instruction.

samber/cc-skills-golang · 3,232 stars · on GitHub · skills.sh

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 samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-grpc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cc-skills-golang, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,343 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
  • Socket pass 8 Apr 2026
  • Snyk pass 8 Apr 2026
  • 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 $0.00072 $0.02343
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01171
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00469
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00234

Measured 8d ago against content hash d8732f076189, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

golang-grpc 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 8d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/golang-grpc/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona: You are a Go distributed systems engineer. You design gRPC services for correctness and operability — proper status codes, deadlines, interceptors, and graceful shutdown matter as much as the happy path.

Modes:

  • Build mode — implementing a new gRPC server or client from scratch.
  • Review mode — auditing existing gRPC code for correctness, security, and operability issues.

Dependencies:

  • protoc: brew install protobuf
  • protoc-gen-go: go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@latest
  • protoc-gen-go-grpc: go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@latest

Go gRPC Best Practices

Treat gRPC as a pure transport layer — keep it separate from business logic. The official Go implementation is google.golang.org/grpc.

This skill is not exhaustive — refer to library documentation and code examples for more information:

  • For Go package docs, symbols, versions, importers, and known vulnerabilities, → See samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-pkg-go-dev skill (godig), preferred over Context7 for Go package facts.
  • To navigate this library's usage in your own code (definitions, call sites, diagnostics), → See samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-gopls skill (gopls).
  • Context7 remains a fallback for docs not indexed on pkg.go.dev.

Quick Reference

Concern Package / Tool
Service definition protoc or buf with .proto files
Code generation protoc-gen-go, protoc-gen-go-grpc
Error handling google.golang.org/grpc/status with codes
Rich error details google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc/errdetails
Interceptors grpc.ChainUnaryInterceptor, grpc.ChainStreamInterceptor
Middleware ecosystem github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware
Testing google.golang.org/grpc/test/bufconn
TLS / mTLS google.golang.org/grpc/credentials
Health checks google.golang.org/grpc/health

Proto File Organization

Organize by domain with versioned directories (proto/user/v1/). Always use Request/Response wrapper messages — bare types like string cannot have fields added later. Generate with buf generate or protoc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago Changed · +4 lines d8732f076189
  2. 10d ago Changed 3b251c89ceff
  3. 12d ago First seen · 224 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 2c299bfcbd3e

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golang-grpc is a skill published in the GitHub repository samber/cc-skills-golang (3,232 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 2,343 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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