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 non-Golang 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.

Built for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Antigravity, Cursor...

🚀 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

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

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

Update with gemini extensions update cc-skills-golang.

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/.

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/.

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/.

Install the plugin via the Codex CLI:

codex plugin add github:samber/cc-skills

Update with codex plugin update cc-skills. Falls back to a manual clone if the marketplace path is unavailable:

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

Codex auto-discovers skills from ~/.agents/skills/ and .agents/skills/.

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    │ │ continuous-integ.    │
│ structs-iface│ │ data-structs │ │ observability   │ │ stay-updated         │
│ documentation│ │ database     │ │                 │ │ dep-management       │
│ lint         │ │ modernize    │ │                 │ │ gopls                │
│ security     │ │ refactoring  │ │                 │ │ pkg-go-dev           │
└──────────────┘ └──────────────┘ └─────────────────┘ └──────────────────────┘

    ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
    │                      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 │           │
    └──────────────┴────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────────┴───────────┘

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