Can it help with Go concurrency issues?

Yes, it provides patterns for worker pools, errgroup coordination, and proper context management to prevent goroutine leaks and ensure graceful shutdowns.

How does this skill improve Go code generation?

It enforces idiomatic Go principles like 'Accept interfaces, return structs' and 'Make the zero value useful,' resulting in code that is more readable, testable, and maintainable.

Is this skill useful for Go project organization?

Yes, it includes a standardized project layout (cmd/, internal/, pkg/) and guidance on package naming and dependency injection to avoid package-level state.

Does it include performance-specific advice?

Absolutely. It covers memory efficiency techniques such as slice pre-allocation, strings.Builder for concatenation, and object pooling with sync.Pool for high-frequency allocations.

Golang Idiomatic Patterns

Name: Golang Idiomatic Patterns
Author: saar120

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API Development

Provides idiomatic Go patterns and best practices for building robust, efficient, and maintainable applications.

This skill equips Claude with specialized knowledge of Go (Golang) development standards, focusing on idiomatic patterns that ensure code clarity and high performance. It covers essential topics including zero-value usefulness, interface-driven design, context-aware concurrency, and effective error handling using wrapping and custom types. Whether you are refactoring legacy Go modules or architecting new cloud-native services, this skill provides the domain-specific guidance needed to align with the Go community's best practices, project layouts, and performance optimization techniques.

Key Features

01Idiomatic Go code generation following the 'Accept interfaces, return structs' principle.

02Performance optimization tips for slice pre-allocation and sync.Pool usage.

03Advanced error handling patterns including context wrapping and custom error types.

04Concurrency best practices using worker pools, errgroups, and context-based cancellation.

05Structural design patterns like functional options and composition via embedding.

060 GitHub stars

Use Cases

01Refactoring legacy Go codebases to follow modern idiomatic standards.

02Establishing standard project layouts and package structures for new Go modules.

03Designing highly concurrent backend services with safe, leak-proof goroutine management.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add saar120/skillgate-registry golang-patterns

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

Key Features

01Idiomatic Go code generation following the 'Accept interfaces, return structs' principle.

02Performance optimization tips for slice pre-allocation and sync.Pool usage.

03Advanced error handling patterns including context wrapping and custom error types.

04Concurrency best practices using worker pools, errgroups, and context-based cancellation.

05Structural design patterns like functional options and composition via embedding.

060 GitHub stars

Use Cases

01Refactoring legacy Go codebases to follow modern idiomatic standards.

02Establishing standard project layouts and package structures for new Go modules.

03Designing highly concurrent backend services with safe, leak-proof goroutine management.