Go Expert Guidance
Writes and reviews Go code with idiomatic concurrency, error handling and testing patterns
- Repository
- RightNow-AI/openfang
- Stars
- 18,243
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
This skill gives the agent a senior Go developer persona and a checklist of Go best practices. Once installed, when you ask for Go code, the agent leans toward simple, explicit code, handles errors at each call site, uses goroutines with clear shutdown paths, passes context.Context through I/O functions, and suggests table-driven tests and common patterns such as worker pools and functional options. It is guidance only: it does not run anything on your machine.
Great for
- Developers writing or reviewing Go services and command-line tools
- Students learning Go concurrency, channels and interface design
- Teams wanting consistent Go style during code review
Skip it if
- Non-Go projects, since the guidance is specific to Go and would add noise elsewhere
- Production-critical code without human review, because the advice is general and the agent may still produce bugs or APIs that do not match your library versions
Try asking
- “Refactor this Go function to use a worker pool with context cancellation”
- “Review my Go code for goroutine leaks and unhandled errors”
- “Write table-driven tests for this parser in Go”
- “Explain when I should use a channel versus a mutex in my Go service”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
golang-expert.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip golang-expert.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip golang-expert.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Paste the relevant Go code and state your Go version, since some advice (such as loop variable behaviour) depends on it
- Ask for the reasoning behind a pattern so you can judge whether it fits your design
- Run the agent's suggested code through go vet, the race detector and your own tests before relying on it
What's inside
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from RightNow-AI/openfang under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.