| name | go-coding |
| description | Go coding-standards router and entry point for idiomatic Go (Go 1.26, works with 1.25+; golangci-lint v2). This skill should be used when a Go task spans multiple areas, is unspecified, or the question is which tool or standard applies — it routes each topic to the deterministic tool (gofmt/gofumpt, go vet, go fix / golangci-lint v2 modernize, go test -race), to the gopls-lsp plugin for code intelligence, and then to the focused go-* skill that owns it. For a single, already-identified topic prefer that skill directly (errors → go-errors, concurrency → go-concurrency, testing → go-testing, idioms/modernization → go-idioms, linter config → go-linting, layout → go-layout). Not for non-Go languages or domain/business rules. |
go-coding — Go standards router
Route the Go task to the right standard and tool — this skill is a router, not an encyclopedia.
Two principles from the project research drive it:
- Deterministic beats prose. Whatever a formatter or linter enforces, run the tool — don't
reason it out by hand. The plugin's value is judgment the model lacks, not re-deriving tooling.
- Don't rebuild code intelligence. For defs/refs/diagnostics/rename/vulncheck, recommend the
official
gopls-lsp plugin (@claude-plugins-official).
Routing table
| Topic | Run now (deterministic) | Deeper skill |
|---|
| Formatting | gofmt -l / gofumpt -l (+ goimports) — machine-enforced, non-negotiable | — |
| Static analysis / likely bugs | go vet ./..., golangci-lint run | go-linting |
Modern idioms (range-int, min/max, slices/maps, wg.Go, strings.Cut, new(expr)) | go fix ./... (Go 1.26 applies the full modernizer suite natively), or golangci-lint run --enable-only=modernize on older toolchains | go-idioms |
Errors (%w, errors.Is/As, errors.Join, sentinel/typed) | golangci-lint run --enable-only=errorlint | go-errors |
| Concurrency (goroutine leaks, ctx lifecycle, atomics) | go test -race ./..., go vet ./... | go-concurrency |
Testing (table-driven, t.Parallel, B.Loop, testing/synctest) | go test -race ./...; use testing/synctest (stable since 1.25) for time/concurrency tests | go-testing |
Project layout (internal/, start-flat) | judgment — see sources below | go-layout |
| Code intelligence (defs/refs/diagnostics/rename/vulncheck) | install the gopls-lsp plugin | — |
Open the focused go-* skill for the topic — it carries the cited rules and the judgment; run the
tool in the middle column to enforce them. Don't invent rules: each skill cites its sources.
Authoritative sources (cite, don't guess)
For a focused review
Dispatch the go-reviewer agent — a read-only, context-isolated reviewer that applies the
review-heuristics catalog and returns severity-ranked findings on a diff or file.
Top-level structure adapted from samber/cc-skills-golang (MIT © 2026 Samuel Berthe).
