Go Documentation Standards
Generates and audits idiomatic, production-ready Go documentation based on Google and Uber style guides.
This skill empowers developers to write high-quality Go documentation that adheres to industry standards from Google and Uber. It provides automated tools to detect missing doc comments and offers deep guidance on documenting non-obvious behaviors, concurrency safety, resource cleanup, and package-level details. Whether you are building internal libraries or open-source packages, this skill ensures your Go code is discoverable, readable, and fully compatible with Godoc conventions through normative rules and automated validation scripts.
Key Features
01Templates and best practices for runnable examples and package-level doc.go files
02Strategic guidance for documenting concurrency safety, errors, and resource cleanup
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04Enforcement of normative Go doc rules including sentence structure and naming conventions
05Automated detection of missing documentation for exported symbols via check-docs.sh
06Standardized struct documentation with field grouping and default value notation
Use Cases
01Ensuring team-wide consistency by following Google's Go style guide for internal APIs
02Auditing legacy Go codebases to identify and document exported functions and types
03Preparing an open-source Go library for public release with comprehensive Godoc coverage