# Go writing

> Use when writing, reviewing or refactoring Go packages, tests or benchmarks.

Writes, reviews, and refactors Go code with idiomatic package design, error handling, concurrency, performance, tests, linting, and toolchain awareness. Use when implementing or reviewing `.go` changes, tests, benchmarks, package APIs, or version-gated Go modernization.

## Facts

- Type: Agent skill
- Discipline: Engineering
- Author: Lachlan Donald (https://github.com/lox)
- Upstream: https://github.com/lox/agent-skills/blob/main/go-writing/SKILL.md
- Source file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lox/agent-skills/main/go-writing/SKILL.md (8608 bytes, sha256:e7cbe3ecb3a3a5e871cc583a0e382cc957dd005d5e7d5f430b939919ce1b0e3f)
- Licence: none declared by the repo
- Upstream copy last changed: 2026-09-17
- Status: listed, not yet ruled on by the curator

## Use it

I want to use the Go writing skill by Lachlan Donald.
This is what it does, in the author's own words: Writes, reviews, and refactors Go code with idiomatic package design, error handling, concurrency, performance, tests, linting, and toolchain awareness. Use when implementing or reviewing `.go` changes, tests, benchmarks, package APIs, or version-gated Go modernization.
Download the whole folder at https://github.com/lox/agent-skills/tree/main/go-writing, SKILL.md and every file beside it, into your skills directory: ~/.claude/skills/go-writing/ for Claude Code, ~/.agents/skills/go-writing/ for Codex, ~/.cursor/skills/go-writing/ for Cursor. Get it from the author's repo, not from startupskills.dev.
Then tell me the path you installed it to and how to invoke it.

Nothing here is vendored: install from the author's repo. This file carries none of the author's file.

## Links

- Page: https://startupskills.dev/lox/go-writing
- Author: https://startupskills.dev/lox
- Index: https://startupskills.dev/llms.txt

## The file

Not reproduced here: the repo does not license republication. Read it on the author's GitHub:
https://github.com/lox/agent-skills/blob/main/go-writing/SKILL.md