Effective Go
OfficialAutomates OpenShift Go application deployments, optimizing resource usage and minimizing downtime through intelligent configuration.
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Effective Go, not the name it is listed under, so the command below uses that name.- 1
Run this in your project
terminal$ npx skills add openshift/hypershift --skill "Effective Go" -a claude-code Uses the open-source
skillsCLI and needs Node.js. Add-gto install it for your user instead of this project.
What we know about this skill
Publisher
openshift
Matched to the vendor's own GitHub organisation.
Install target
Live repository
Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.
Automated safety checks
This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.
Declares what it does: passed
SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.
SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.
No undeclared network calls: passed
Makes no network calls.
Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.
No obfuscated payloads: passed
No encoded or obfuscated payloads.
No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.
No credential access: passed
Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.
Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.
No pipe-to-shell installers: passed
No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.
No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.
Pinned to a commit: passed
Scanned openshift/hypershift at dd2a3e4e4a.
The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.
- Commit
- dd2a3e4e4a
- Scanned
- 1 file, 33 lines
About this skill
effective-go
What it does
This skill enables AI agents to apply best practices from "The Go Programming Language" book, specifically focusing on idiomatic code patterns and performance optimization. It guides the generation of clean, efficient Go code that aligns with community standards rather than just functional correctness.
When to use it
- Refactoring legacy Go codebases to improve readability and maintainability.
- Generating new modules that adhere strictly to Go's concurrency models.
- Optimizing existing functions for better memory usage and execution speed.
- Ensuring error handling follows the explicit, non-panic philosophy of idiomatic Go.
Key capabilities
- Enforces idiomatic Go syntax and style conventions.
- Implements patterns described in "The Go Programming Language" book.
- Focuses on performance-critical optimizations specific to the language.
- Promotes clean architecture principles within Go projects.
Example prompts
- "Refactor this Go function to use channels instead of goroutines for better synchronization."
- "Generate a new HTTP handler that follows idiomatic error handling practices from Effective Go."
- "Optimize this data structure implementation to reduce memory allocation overhead."
Tips & gotchas
Ensure your AI agent understands the distinction between functional correctness and idiomatic style; this skill prioritizes the latter. Always verify generated code against the latest Go version, as best practices evolve with language updates.