Go 1.25+ Development Specialist

About

This skill equips Claude with specialized knowledge for building modern, high-performance Go applications. It enforces best practices such as preferring concrete types over interfaces, defining private interfaces at the consumer level, and utilizing the latest Go 1.25 features like deterministic concurrent testing and high-performance JSON processing. By prioritizing the standard library and minimizing external dependencies, it ensures that your Go codebase remains maintainable, testable, and aligned with modern industry standards for Go development.

Key Features

• Prioritizes Go standard library solutions to minimize external dependencies
• Implements flat control flow using early returns and guard clauses
• Integrates advanced Go 1.25 features like synctest and json/v2
• 8 GitHub stars
• Enforces Go 1.25+ idiomatic patterns and best practices
• Provides robust error handling patterns with context wrapping and sentinel checks

Use Cases

• Designing clean, decoupled backend APIs using consumer-side private interfaces
• Creating high-performance JSON handlers and deterministic concurrent test suites
• Refactoring legacy Go codebases to modern Go 1.25+ standards