# Build Reliable Go Services with Golang Pro

Go developers need consistent patterns for concurrency, service design, performance, and testing. This skill turns requirements into idiomatic, production-oriented Go designs and implementation guidance.

## Install

```bash
npx skillstore add jeffallan/golang-pro
```

## Metadata

- Status: approved
- Slug: jeffallan-golang-pro
- Version: 1.1.0
- Author version: 1.1.0
- Skillstore revision: r2
- Version status: valid
- Tree hash: 836c77cb8753403fea34f6c2d6cc0a7559472c9526be75842ead85cd67c2dd4b
- Author: jeffallan
- GitHub username: jeffallan
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/jeffallan/claude-skills/tree/main/skills/golang-pro/
- Ref: 1c2ebded2116f8124f45dba86a2e567f56e64d8e
- Supported tools: Claude, Codex, Claude Code
- Audit status: complete
- Agent install advisory: allowed
- Manual install advisory: allowed
- Artifact signature: available
- Audit attestation: unavailable
- Human verification: not\_verified
- Risk factors: scripts, network, external\_commands, filesystem, env\_access
- Quality score: 78
- Quality tier: bronze
- Public page: https://skillstore.pages.dev/skills/jeffallan-golang-pro
- Manifest: https://skillstore.pages.dev/api/skills/jeffallan-golang-pro/manifest

## Capabilities

- Designs bounded goroutine and channel workflows with context cancellation.
- Creates focused Go interfaces, dependency injection boundaries, and generic constraints.
- Structures gRPC or REST microservices with configuration and package guidance.
- Suggests pprof profiling, benchmarks, race detection, fuzzing, and coverage practices.
- Produces idiomatic Go implementation plans with explicit error handling and error wrapping.

## Use Cases

- Plan a concurrent worker pipeline: Define cancellation, bounded concurrency, channel ownership, error propagation, and shutdown behavior for a Go worker pipeline.
- Design a Go microservice: Turn service requirements into package structure, interfaces, configuration, API boundaries, and testing guidance for a production-oriented service.
- Improve performance and reliability: Review a Go component for allocations, race risks, error handling, benchmark design, and practical pprof investigation steps.

## Prompt Templates

### Explain a Go concurrency pattern

```
Explain how to implement a bounded worker pool for this Go task. Cover goroutine ownership, cancellation, channel closure, errors, and a small test plan.
```

### Design service interfaces

```
Design focused Go interfaces for this service requirement. Show dependency injection boundaries, context usage, error contracts, and how to mock each dependency.
```

### Build a Go service structure

```
Create an idiomatic Go project structure for this gRPC or REST service. Include package responsibilities, configuration, API boundaries, tests, and local development commands.
```

### Investigate Go performance

```
Analyze this Go performance issue and propose a measurement-first plan. Include benchmark cases, pprof profiles, allocation checks, race testing, and acceptance criteria.
```

## Limitations

- It provides guidance and generated code, but it does not run, compile, or deploy applications.
- It cannot verify infrastructure, dependency availability, production configuration, or runtime performance.
- Recommendations require review for the target Go version, service contracts, and operational constraints.
- It does not replace security review, threat modeling, or testing against real workloads.

## Best Practices

- Provide the Go version, service boundaries, concurrency requirements, and expected failure behavior.
- Ask for tests, cancellation paths, error propagation, and operational assumptions with every implementation request.
- Validate generated guidance with gofmt, static analysis, race tests, benchmarks, and a human review.

## Anti Patterns

- Do not request production code without describing inputs, dependencies, lifecycle, and error behavior.
- Do not accept concurrency advice that omits cancellation, bounded work, channel ownership, or shutdown tests.
- Do not treat generated examples as verified deployment manifests, security controls, or performance results.

## Security Audit

- Audited at: 2026-08-07T09:42:47.224\+00:00
- Summary: All 64 static detections are false positives caused by Go examples, Markdown formatting, Makefile snippets, configuration tags, or documentation links. No executable scripts, data exfiltration intent, or prompt injection evidence was found in the six scanned files.

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