Agent Skills for production-ready Golang projects

AI agent skills are reusable instruction sets that extend your coding assistant with domain-specific expertise, loaded on demand so they don't bloat your context. This repository covers Go-specific skills only (language, testing, security, observability, etc.); for dev workflow skills (git conventions, CI/CD, PR reviews) you'll want to add a separate skills plugin.

For generic skills, please visit cc-skills.

[!IMPORTANT] Bootstrapped with Claude Code by distilling my Go project commits. Edited, tested, reviewed and reworked by a human.

No AI slop here. AI-made skills are useless.

🚀 How to use

Install with skills CLI (universal, works with any Agent Skills-compatible tool):

npx skills add https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang --all
# or a single skill:
npx skills add https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-performance

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add samber/cc
/plugin install cc-skills-golang@samber

Openclaw

Copy skills into the cross-client discovery directory:

git clone https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang.git ~/.openclaw/skills/cc-skills-golang
# or in workspace:
git clone https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang.git ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/cc-skills-golang

Gemini CLI

gemini extensions install https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang

Update with gemini extensions update cc-skills-golang.

Cursor

Copy skills into the cross-client discovery directory:

git clone https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang.git  ~/.cursor/skills/cc-skills-golang

Cursor auto-discovers skills from .agents/skills/ and .cursor/skills/.

Copilot

Copy skills into the cross-client discovery directory:

/plugin install https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang
# or
git clone https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang.git ~/.copilot/skills/cc-skills-golang

Copilot auto-discovers skills from .copilot/skills/.

OpenCode

Copy skills into the cross-client discovery directory:

git clone https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang.git ~/.agents/skills/cc-skills-golang

OpenCode auto-discovers skills from .agents/skills/, .opencode/skills/, and .claude/skills/.

Codex (OpenAI)

Clone into the cross-client discovery path:

git clone https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang.git ~/.agents/skills/cc-skills-golang

Codex auto-discovers skills from ~/.agents/skills/ and .agents/skills/. Update with cd ~/.agents/skills/cc-skills-golang && git pull.

Antigravity

Clone and symlink into the cross-client discovery path:

git clone https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang.git ~/.antigravity/skills/cc-skills-golang

Update with cd ~/.antigravity/skills/cc-skills-golang && git pull.

🧩 Skills

These skills are designed as atomic, cross-referencing units. A skill may reference conventions defined in another (e.g. error-handling rules that affect logging live in golang-error-handling, not golang-observability). Installing only a subset will give you a partial and potentially inconsistent view of the guidelines. For best results, install all general-purpose skills together.

                         ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
                         │             Golang Skills              │
                         └──────────────────┬─────────────────────┘
                                            │
   ┌─────────────────┬──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┐
   ▼                 ▼                      ▼                      ▼
┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌─────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐
│ Code Quality │ │ Arch & Design│ │    QA & Perf    │ │  Project Start   │
├──────────────┤ ├──────────────┤ ├─────────────────┤ ├──────────────────┤
│ code-style   │ │ design-patt  │ │ testing         │ │ project-layout   │
│ naming       │ │ concurrency  │ │ benchmark       │ │ popular-libs     │
│ error-handl  │ │ context      │ │ performance     │ │ cli              │
│ safety       │ │ dep-inject   │ │ troubleshoot    │ │ CI               │
│ structs-iface│ │ data-structs │ │ observability   │ │ stay-updated     │
│ documentation│ │ database     │ │                 │ │ dep-management   │
│ lint         │ │ modernize    │ │                 │ │                  │
│ security     │ │              │ │                 │ │                  │
└──────────────┘ └──────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ └──────────────────┘

    ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
    │                      Framework / Library Skills                         │
    ├──────────────┬────────────────┬──────────────┬─────────────┬───────────┤
    │   APIs       │      DI        │  Frameworks  │  samber/*   │  Testing  │
    ├──────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────┼───────────┤
    │ grpc         │ google-wire    │ spf13-cobra  │ samber-lo   │ stretchr- │
    │ graphql      │ uber-dig       │ spf13-viper  │ samber-mo   │  testify  │
    │ swagger      │ uber-fx        │              │ samber-ro   │           │
    │              │                │              │ samber-do   │           │
    │              │                │              │ samber-hot  │           │
    │              │                │              │ samber-slog │           │
    │              │                │              │ samber-oops │           │
    └──────────────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────────┴───────────┘

• ⭐️ Recommended
• ✅ Published
• 👷 Work in progress
• ❌ To-do
• ⚡ Command available
• 🧠 Ultrathink automatically
• ⚙️ Overridable (see doc below)
• Description (tok): weight of the description field from YAML frontmatter, always loaded into Claude's context for skill triggering
• SKILL.md (tok): weight of the full SKILL.md file loaded when the skill triggers
• Directory (tok): weight of all files in the skill directory (SKILL.md + referenced markdown files)

General purpose:

	Skill	Flags	Error rate gap	Description (tok)	SKILL.md (tok)	Directory (tok)
⭐️	✅ golang-code-style	⚡ ⚙️	-40%	115	2,069	2,685
⭐️	✅ golang-data-structures	⚡	-39%	92	2,464	6,176
⭐️	✅ golang-database	⚡ ⚙️	-38%	97	2,725	7,248
⭐️	✅ golang-design-patterns	⚡ ⚙️	-37%	66	2,610	9,316
⭐️	✅ golang-documentation	⚡ ⚙️	-53%	73	2,678	10,549
⭐️	✅ golang-error-handling	⚡ ⚙️	-26%	139	1,520	4,394
⭐️	👷 golang-how-to		—	0	0	0
⭐️	✅ golang-modernize	⚡	-61%	68	2,476	7,599
⭐️	✅ golang-naming	⚡ ⚙️	-23%	158	2,865	7,233
⭐️	✅ golang-safety	⚡	-58%	78	2,457	5,227
⭐️	✅ golang-testing	⚡ 🧠 ⚙️	-32%	113	3,105	6,212
⭐️	✅ golang-troubleshooting	⚡ 🧠	-32%	126	2,735	15,901
⭐️	✅ golang-security	⚡ 🧠	-32%	84	2,873	20,894
	✅ golang-benchmark	⚡ 🧠	-50%	99	2,135	29,248
	✅ golang-cli	⚡	-43%	122	2,274	6,089
	✅ golang-concurrency	⚡ ⚙️	-39%	71	1,873	6,338
	✅ golang-context	⚡ ⚙️	-34%	80	1,144	3,940
	✅ golang-continuous-integration	⚡	-59%	82	2,835	6,477
	✅ golang-dependency-injection	⚡ ⚙️	-47%	176	2,842	5,113
	✅ golang-dependency-management	⚡	-54%	77	1,877	4,957
	✅ golang-structs-interfaces	⚡ ⚙️	-35%	110	2,999	2,999
	✅ golang-lint	⚡	-41%	98	1,714	5,493
	✅ golang-observability	⚡ ⚙️	-37%	161	2,921	18,453
	✅ golang-performance	⚡ 🧠	-39%	127	1,953	17,855
	✅ golang-popular-libraries	⚡	-30%	61	788	4,131
	✅ golang-project-layout	⚡	-38%	69	1,510	5,718
	✅ golang-stay-updated	⚡	-56%	43	1,916	1,916

Tools:

Skill	Flags	Error rate gap	Description (tok)	SKILL.md (tok)	Directory (tok)
✅ golang-google-wire	⚡	-16%	122	2,511	7,243
✅ golang-graphql		-16%	76	2,935	7,766
✅ golang-grpc	⚡	-41%	69	2,149	4,965
✅ golang-spf13-cobra	⚡	—	176	2,455	7,218
✅ golang-spf13-viper	⚡	—	170	2,412	6,936
✅ golang-swagger	⚡	—	144	2,125	3,123
✅ golang-uber-dig	⚡	-10%	107	2,264	5,904
✅ golang-uber-fx	⚡	-5%	118	2,499	6,747
✅ golang-samber-do	⚡	-81%	71	1,746	3,269
✅ golang-samber-hot	⚡	-54%	118	1,843	7,273
✅ golang-samber-lo	⚡	-40%	165	2,410	10,031
✅ golang-samber-mo	⚡ 🧠	-48%	81	2,800	11,215
✅ golang-samber-oops	⚡	-59%	69	2,380	2,692
✅ golang-samber-ro	⚡ 🧠	-50%	152	2,845	11,136
✅ golang-samber-slog	⚡	-19%	118	2,588	9,234
❌ golang-temporal		—	0	0	0
✅ golang-stretchr-testify	⚡	-47%	90	1,714	2,533

🧪 Skill evaluations

	With Skill	Without Skill	Delta
Overall	3315/3395 (98%)	1915/3395 (56%)	+41pp

See EVALUATIONS.md for the full per-skill breakdown.

🕵 Use in CI for AI-driven reviews

Add AI agents as PR reviewers alongside traditional static analysis. When configured with this skill plugin, the agent applies the relevant Go skills per review area — catching architectural drift, logic bugs, and concurrency hazards that linters cannot detect.

See GOLANG-AI-DRIVEN-REVIEW.md for full setup instructions (Claude Code Action and GitHub Copilot).

🎯 Tuning Skill Triggers

If a skill triggers too often or not often enough, please open an issue suggesting a description change. The description field in SKILL.md frontmatter is the primary triggering mechanism — small wording adjustments can significantly improve trigger accuracy. Some SKILL.md files might have a When to use section which is another level of exclusion. Finally, SKILL.md files are an entrypoint for lazy loading references with deep knowledge located in references/.

🔄 Overlap

Claude reports very little overlap between skills in this repo, thanks to cross-reference. I suggest enabling most of the skills and leveraging lazy loading. The recommended ⭐️ skills load ~1,100 tokens of descriptions at startup; full skill content is only pulled in when relevant. Note:

• I estimate that 50% of golang-naming and golang-code-style overlap with linters (golangci-lint).
• A large part of the security rules in golang-security have been distilled from the Bearer (SAST) checklist. The skill is still useful for methodology.
• If your team has its own conventions, create a company skill and declare the override explicitly near the top of its body: This skill supersedes samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-naming skill for [company] projects. Skills marked ⚙️ in the table above support this mechanism.

✍️ Contribute

• 100 tokens per skill description - what? when to use this skill?
• 1.000–2.500 tokens per SKILL.md — keep the main file focused on essentials
• Use secondary markdown files for depth — reference them from SKILL.md with relative links (e.g., [Logging](./logging.md)). Claude reads these on demand when the topic is relevant, so they don't count against the context budget until needed
• Up to 10.000 tokens for full skill and secondary files
• 2–4 skills loaded simultaneously in a typical session — design skills to coexist
• Stay below ~10k tokens of total loaded SKILL.md anytime to avoid degrading response quality

For more guidelines, please check CLAUDE.md.

💫 Fuel the Revolution

• ⭐️ Star this repo - Your star powers the caffeine engine!
• ☕️ Buy me a coffee - I'll literally use it to build more skills while drinking actual coffee

📝 License

Copyright © 2026 Samuel Berthe.

This project is under MIT license.