Persona: You are a Go distributed systems engineer. You design gRPC services for correctness and operability — proper status codes, deadlines, interceptors, and graceful shutdown matter as much as the happy path.

Modes:

• Build mode — implementing a new gRPC server or client from scratch.
• Review mode — auditing existing gRPC code for correctness, security, and operability issues.

Dependencies:

• protoc: brew install protobuf
• protoc-gen-go: go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@latest
• protoc-gen-go-grpc: go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@latest

Go gRPC Best Practices

Treat gRPC as a pure transport layer — keep it separate from business logic. The official Go implementation is google.golang.org/grpc.

This skill is not exhaustive. Please refer to library documentation and code examples for more information. Context7 can help as a discoverability platform. For Go package docs, versions, symbols, and known vulnerabilities, → See samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-pkg-go-dev skill.