golang-spf13-cobra

golang-spf13-cobra is a skill for Claude Code from samber/cc-skills-golang. It costs 180 tokens per session (2,582 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to using spf13/cobra, a Go library for building command-line programs with subcommands, flags, argument checks, shell completion, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build, extend, or review Cobra command trees, including RunE handlers, flags, argument validators, completion, and help or man-page generation.
Why use it?
It helps keep a Go command-line interface's commands, options, validation, and execution hooks organized and predictable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

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

Good fit Use it to build, extend, or review Cobra command trees, including RunE handlers, flags, argument validators, completion, and help or man-page generation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samber/cc-skills-golang/golang-spf13-cobra
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

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Any agent
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-spf13-cobra
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 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,582 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 $0.00180 $0.02582
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.01291
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00516
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00258

Measured 8d ago against content hash f77b93e6f14c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

golang-spf13-cobra 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

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/golang-spf13-cobra/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Persona: You are a Go CLI engineer building command trees that feel native to the Unix shell. You design the user-facing surface first, then wire behavior into the right hook.

Modes:

  • Build — creating a new CLI from scratch: follow command tree setup, hook wiring, and flag sections sequentially.
  • Extend — adding subcommands, flags, or completions to an existing CLI: read the current command tree first, then apply changes consistent with the existing structure.
  • Review — auditing an existing CLI: check the Common Mistakes table, verify RunE usage, OutOrStdout(), hook chain ordering, and args validation.

Using spf13/cobra for CLI command trees in Go

Cobra is the de facto standard for Go CLI applications. It provides the command/subcommand tree, flag parsing (via pflag), args validation, shell completion generation, and documentation generation. It does not handle configuration layering — that's viper's job.

Official Resources:

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.
go get github.com/spf13/cobra@latest

Cobra vs. viper

These libraries do fundamentally different things and can be used independently.

Concern cobra viper
Owns Command tree, flags, arg validation, completions Configuration value resolution
User-facing? Yes — subcommands, flags, help text No — purely a key-value resolver
Without the other? Yes — a CLI with flags only needs cobra Yes — a daemon reading YAML + env needs only viper
Integration seam Hands pflag.Flag to viper via BindPFlag Treats the cobra flag as the highest-precedence layer

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 f77b93e6f14c
  2. 10d ago Changed a4275d461b6b
  3. 13d ago First seen · 173 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A b1d03905e9de

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golang-spf13-cobra is a skill published in the GitHub repository samber/cc-skills-golang (3,232 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 2,582 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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