Go Pro Coding Assistant
Writes idiomatic Go with goroutines, generics, interfaces, gRPC microservices and pprof tuning.
- Repository
- Jeffallan/claude-skills
- Stars
- 12,176
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 6 files
What it does
When installed, the agent works as a senior Go developer: it designs small interfaces, writes concurrent code using goroutines and channels with proper context cancellation and error wrapping, uses generics where appropriate, and follows a workflow of go vet, golangci-lint, profiling with pprof, and table-driven tests run under the race detector. It loads five reference guides (concurrency, interfaces, generics, testing, project structure) as needed.
Great for
- Go developers building concurrent services or CLI tools who want consistent, idiomatic code
- Teams writing gRPC or REST microservices in Go that want a checklist for error handling and testing
- Developers tuning Go performance who want guidance on pprof, benchmarks and reducing allocations
Skip it if
- Non-developers or people unfamiliar with Go, since the output is code that still needs review and running (the skill does not teach Go from scratch)
- Projects that do not use Go or that use a different Go toolchain or lint setup than the one the skill assumes (go vet, golangci-lint, Go 1.21+)
- Production code shipped without human review, because the skill only shapes the agent's output and does not verify correctness or security
Try asking
- “Write a worker pool in Go that processes jobs from a channel and stops cleanly when the context is cancelled.”
- “Design a small set of interfaces for a storage layer and generate table-driven tests with the race detector.”
- “Profile this Go HTTP handler with pprof and suggest changes that reduce allocations.”
- “Scaffold a Go module layout with internal packages for a gRPC microservice.”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 6 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
golang-pro.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip golang-pro.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip golang-pro.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
- Ask for the specific topic (e.g. 'use the concurrency guidance') so the agent loads the right reference file.
- Run the suggested go vet, golangci-lint and go test -race commands yourself to confirm the generated code works.
- Give the agent your Go version and existing module layout so generated code matches your project.
What's inside
- references/concurrency.md
- references/generics.md
- references/interfaces.md
- references/project-structure.md
- references/testing.md
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from Jeffallan/claude-skills 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.