Go Concurrency Patterns
Teaches the agent Go concurrency patterns: goroutines, channels, sync primitives, and context.
- Repository
- wshobson/agents
- Stars
- 42,095
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 2 files
What it does
When installed, the agent gets a guide to writing concurrent Go programs. It knows how to use goroutines, channels, mutexes, WaitGroups and context for cancellation and timeouts, and it follows listed best practices such as avoiding goroutine leaks and closing channels from the sender side. It can also point you to a longer reference file with worked examples when the basics are not enough.
Great for
- Go developers building concurrent services or worker pools
- Engineers debugging race conditions or goroutine leaks in existing Go code
- Teams wanting consistent graceful-shutdown and pipeline patterns
Skip it if
- Non-Go projects, since the guidance is specific to Go's concurrency model (it would not help with Python asyncio or Java threads)
- Complete beginners learning Go syntax from scratch, because the skill assumes working knowledge of the language
- Replacing testing tools: it gives patterns and advice, not a race detector or profiler, so it cannot prove code is free of races
Try asking
- “Write a worker pool in Go that processes jobs from a channel with a 5 second timeout”
- “Help me find why my Go program leaks goroutines when a request is cancelled”
- “Refactor this Go code that uses a shared map with mutexes to use channels instead”
- “Add graceful shutdown to my Go HTTP server using context”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 2 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
go-concurrency-patterns.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip go-concurrency-patterns.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip go-concurrency-patterns.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
- Name the concrete problem (worker pool, race condition, shutdown) so the agent applies the matching pattern.
- Share the relevant Go code and the Go version; the agent can then check its advice against your actual code.
- Still run go test -race and review the output yourself, since the skill gives guidance rather than verification.
What's inside
- references/details.md
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from wshobson/agents under the MIT 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.