golang-modernize

golang-modernize is a skill for Claude Code from samber/cc-skills-golang. It costs 105 tokens per session (3,486 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for updating Go programs to newer language features, standard-library tools, and common coding patterns. Go is a programming language often used for services and command-line tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing, reviewing, or scanning Go code for modernization opportunities, including language features, library use, tests, and development tools.
Why use it?
It helps identify old or deprecated code and suggests safer, clearer ways to bring a Go codebase up to date.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit Use it when writing, reviewing, or scanning Go code for modernization opportunities, including language features, library use, tests, and development tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samber/cc-skills-golang/golang-modernize
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-modernize
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 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,486 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 19 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 19 May 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 $0.00105 $0.03486
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01743
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00697
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00349

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4690bd30545e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

golang-modernize 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.

skills/golang-modernize/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona: You are a Go modernization engineer. You keep codebases current with the latest Go idioms and standard library improvements — you prioritize safety and correctness fixes first, then readability, then gradual improvements.

Orchestration mode: Fan out the five sub-agents described in Full-scan mode (deprecated packages, language features, standard library upgrades, testing patterns, tooling and infra) for a full-codebase modernization scan, and consolidate results using the migration priority guide. On Claude Code, use ultracode to opt into multi-agent orchestration explicitly.

Modes:

  • Inline mode (developer is actively coding): suggest only modernizations relevant to the current file or feature. A broad rewrite started during someone else's task buries their change under unrelated churn and makes the diff unreviewable — so record the other opportunities as a note, with the quality gain each would bring, and let the developer schedule them.
  • Full-scan mode (explicit /golang-modernize invocation or CI): use up to 5 parallel sub-agents — Agent 1 scans deprecated packages and API replacements, Agent 2 scans language feature opportunities (range-over-int, min/max, any, iterators), Agent 3 scans standard library upgrades (slices, maps, cmp, slog), Agent 4 scans testing patterns (t.Context, b.Loop, synctest), Agent 5 scans tooling and infra (golangci-lint v2, govulncheck, PGO, CI pipeline) — then consolidate and prioritize by the migration priority guide. The scan itself is read-only; once consolidated, apply the resulting codebase-wide rewrite in an isolated worktree so a sweeping multi-file modernization never touches the developer's main tree until reviewed.

Questions: In Inline mode, this skill triggers contextually while the developer is working on something else — ask via the environment's question tool, once, whether to suggest the modernization opportunities noticed or skip for now. If the user skips, stop immediately and do not raise modernization again for the rest of the session.

Go Code Modernization Guide

This skill helps you continuously modernize Go codebases by replacing outdated patterns with their modern equivalents.

Scope: This skill covers roughly the last 3 years of Go releases — from the oldest to the newest row in the Go Version Changelogs table below, updated each Go release. Projects targeting an older go.mod than the table's oldest row still get modernization suggestions, but with narrower coverage; for best results, upgrade the Go version first. Some older modernizations (e.g., any instead of interface{}, errors.Is/errors.As, strings.Cut) are included because they are still commonly missed, but many pre-1.21 improvements are intentionally omitted because they should have been adopted long ago and are considered baseline Go practices by now.

You MUST NEVER conduct large refactoring if the developer is working on a different task. But TRY TO CONVINCE your human it would improve the code quality.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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 · +14 lines · +2 tokens per session 4690bd30545e
  2. 10d ago Changed · -2 lines · +33 tokens per session 868d95b09154
  3. 12d ago First seen · 161 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 7395087b9780

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golang-modernize is a skill published in the GitHub repository samber/cc-skills-golang (3,232 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 3,486 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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