Samber Go Skills - Setup Guide¶

Source: samber/cc-skills-golang (35K+ combined installs) Category: Engineering / Development Quality Tier: 🟢 Production

Comprehensive Golang engineering standards for agents. Enforces idiomatic code style, proper error handling patterns, testing conventions, naming rules, and design patterns. "Clear is better than clever" - Go Proverbs. Designed to produce production-quality Go that passes code review on first submission.

Installation¶

npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-code-style
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-error-handling
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-testing
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-naming
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-design-patterns
npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-structs-interfaces

Included Skills¶

Skill	Installs	Purpose
golang-code-style	35.6K	Idiomatic Go style - line breaking, variable declarations, composite literals, nil handling
golang-error-handling	35.2K	Error wrapping, sentinel errors, custom error types, panic recovery
golang-testing	34.8K	Table-driven tests, subtests, mocking, test helpers, benchmarks
golang-naming	-	Package, variable, function, and interface naming conventions
golang-design-patterns	-	Functional options, builder, strategy, dependency injection for Go
golang-structs-interfaces	-	Struct design, interface segregation, embedding best practices
golang-dependency-management	39.2K	Go module dependency management, versioning, and supply-chain hygiene (added Sep 29, 2026 sweep)
golang-how-to	35.8K	How-to recipes for common Go engineering tasks (added Sep 29, 2026 sweep)

Key Capabilities¶

Code Style Enforcement¶

Line Breaking: Semantic boundaries over arbitrary column counts; 4+ arguments = one per line
Variable Declarations: := for non-zero values, var for zero-value initialization
Slice/Map Initialization: Always explicit, never nil; preallocate when capacity is known
Composite Literals: Always use field names - positional fields break on type changes
Nil Handling: Nil slices serialize to null in JSON (vs [] for empty) - surprising API consumers

Error Handling¶

Error wrapping with fmt.Errorf("%w", err)
Sentinel errors for package-level error constants
Custom error types with Error() method
Panic recovery at goroutine boundaries

Testing Standards¶

Table-driven tests as default pattern
Subtests with t.Run() for organized test output
Test helpers must call t.Helper()
Benchmark functions with b.N loop

Quick Start¶

The skills activate automatically when writing Go code. Key conventions:

// Variables: := for non-zero, var for zero-value
var count int              // zero value, set later
name := "default"          // non-zero

// Slices/Maps: always initialized
users := []User{}                       // never nil
m := make(map[string]int, len(items))   // preallocate when size known

// Composite literals: always use field names
srv := &http.Server{
    Addr:         ":8080",
    ReadTimeout:  5 * time.Second,
    WriteTimeout: 10 * time.Second,
}

// Error handling: wrap with context
if err != nil {
    return fmt.Errorf("processUser: %w", err)
}

Verification¶

npx skills list | grep samber/cc-skills-golang

Notes¶

35K+ combined installs across the Go engineering community
Designed for Claude Code but directly applicable to any agent writing Go (Hermes, Cursor, Copilot)
Linters handle formatting; these skills handle clarity and design judgment
"When ignoring a rule, add a comment to the code" - pragmatic, not dogmatic
Complements golangci-lint for comprehensive Go code quality

Integration with CorpusIQ¶

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This page is part of the CorpusIQ directory, the reference we maintain for the MCP server and agent-skill ecosystem. Run alongside CorpusIQ, a third-party server like this one can be combined with a company's own business data in a single answer.

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