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Go Google Best Practices

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metalagman·vlatest·other

Helps with Go, best practices as part of agent workflows workflows.

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    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add metalagman/agent-skills --skill go-google-best-practices -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

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metalagman

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Live repository

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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 metalagman/agent-skills at 023dfe82af.

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023dfe82af
Manifest
go-google-best-practices/SKILL.md
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2 files, 3,403 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill enables AI agents to adhere to Google's best practices for Go programming. It ensures code is formatted correctly, follows established conventions, and leverages idiomatic Go patterns. The agent can apply these guidelines to existing codebases or generate new code that aligns with Google’s style.

When to use it

  • Code Formatting: Automatically format a Go codebase to match Google's style guide.
  • New Code Generation: Generate new Go code snippets that adhere to Google's best practices from the outset.
  • Code Review Assistance: Identify deviations from Google’s style within existing Go code and suggest corrections.
  • Learning & Education: Help developers learn and apply Google's Go coding standards.

Key capabilities

  • Go code formatting
  • Adherence to Google's Go style guide
  • Idiomatic Go pattern implementation
  • Code review suggestions

Example prompts

  • "Format this Go file according to Google’s best practices: [file content]"
  • “Write a function that implements [functionality] following Google’s Go coding standards.”
  • "Review this code for adherence to Google's Go style guide and suggest improvements: [code snippet]"

Tips & gotchas

The skill assumes the agent has access to a Go environment configured with gofmt or similar tools. While it strives for complete compliance, minor deviations might still occur depending on the complexity of the code.