Go Patterns

This skill focuses on idiomatic Go design and code review guidance.

If your task is primarily measurement/profiling/optimization, use golang-performance.

When to activate

• Writing new Go code (packages, APIs, services)
• Reviewing PRs for idioms, readability, and maintainability
• Refactoring for cleaner error handling and smaller interfaces
• Designing concurrency flows with cancellation and backpressure
• Choosing a dispatch/plugin mechanism, adding modules to a compiled binary, or building low-level/offensive Go tooling

Core principles (high signal)