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Recommends production-ready Golang libraries and frameworks. Apply when the user asks for library suggestions, wants to compare alternatives, or needs to choose a library for a specific task. Also apply when the AI agent is about to add a new dependency — ensures vetted, production-ready libraries are chosen.
Golang everyday observability — the always-on signals in production. Covers structured logging with slog, Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry distributed tracing, continuous profiling with pprof/Pyroscope, server-side RUM event tracking, alerting, and Grafana dashboards. Apply when instrumenting Go services for production monitoring, setting up metrics or alerting, adding OpenTelemetry tracing, correlating logs with traces, migrating legacy loggers (zap/logrus/zerolog) to slog, adding observability to new features, or implementing GDPR/CCPA-compliant tracking with Customer Data Platforms (CDP). Not for temporary deep-dive performance investigation (→ See golang-benchmark and golang-performance skills).
Golang struct and interface design patterns — composition, embedding, type assertions, type switches, interface segregation, dependency injection via interfaces, struct field tags, and pointer vs value receivers. Use this skill when designing Go types, defining or implementing interfaces, embedding structs or interfaces, writing type assertions or type switches, adding struct field tags for JSON/YAML/DB serialization, or choosing between pointer and value receivers. Also use when the user asks about "accept interfaces, return structs", compile-time interface checks, or composing small interfaces into larger ones.
Provides dependency management strategies for Golang projects including go.mod management, installing/upgrading packages, semantic versioning, Minimal Version Selection, vulnerability scanning, outdated dependency tracking, dependency size analysis, automated updates with Dependabot/Renovate, conflict resolution, and dependency graph visualization. Use this skill whenever adding, removing, updating, or auditing Go dependencies, resolving version conflicts, setting up automated dependency updates, analyzing binary size, or working with go.work workspaces.
Comprehensive guide for dependency injection (DI) in Golang. Covers why DI matters (testability, loose coupling, separation of concerns, lifecycle management), manual constructor injection, and DI library comparison (google/wire, uber-go/dig, uber-go/fx, samber/do). Use this skill when designing service architecture, setting up dependency injection, refactoring tightly coupled code, managing singletons or service factories, or when the user asks about inversion of control, service containers, or wiring dependencies in Go.
Golang benchmarking, profiling, and performance measurement. Use when writing, running, or comparing Go benchmarks, profiling hot paths with pprof, interpreting CPU/memory/trace profiles, analyzing results with benchstat, setting up CI benchmark regression detection, or investigating production performance with Prometheus runtime metrics. Also use when the developer needs deep analysis on a specific performance indicator - this skill provides the measurement methodology, while golang-performance provides the optimization patterns.
Golang CLI application development. Use when building, modifying, or reviewing a Go CLI tool — especially for command structure, flag handling, configuration layering, version embedding, exit codes, I/O patterns, signal handling, shell completion, argument validation, and CLI unit testing. Also triggers when code uses cobra, viper, or urfave/cli.
Provides gRPC usage guidelines, protobuf organization, and production-ready patterns for Golang microservices. Use when implementing, reviewing, or debugging gRPC servers/clients, writing proto files, setting up interceptors, handling gRPC errors with status codes, configuring TLS/mTLS, testing with bufconn, or working with streaming RPCs.
Provides resources to stay updated with Golang news, communities and people to follow. Use when seeking Go learning resources, discovering new libraries, finding community channels, or keeping up with Go language changes and releases.
Functional programming helpers for Golang using samber/lo — 500+ type-safe generic functions for slices, maps, channels, strings, math, tuples, and concurrency (Map, Filter, Reduce, GroupBy, Chunk, Flatten, Find, Uniq, etc.). Core immutable package (lo), concurrent variants (lo/parallel aka lop), in-place mutations (lo/mutable aka lom), lazy iterators (lo/it aka loi for Go 1.23+), and experimental SIMD (lo/exp/simd). Apply when using or adopting samber/lo, when the codebase imports github.com/samber/lo, or when implementing functional-style data transformations in Go. Not for streaming pipelines (→ See golang-samber-ro skill).
Implements dependency injection in Golang using samber/do. Apply this skill when working with dependency injection, setting up service containers, managing service lifecycles, or when you see code using github.com/samber/do/v2. Also use when refactoring manual dependency injection, implementing health checks, graceful shutdown, or organizing services into scopes/modules.
Structured logging extensions for Golang using samber/slog-**** packages — multi-handler pipelines (slog-multi), log sampling (slog-sampling), attribute formatting (slog-formatter), HTTP middleware (slog-fiber, slog-gin, slog-chi, slog-echo), and backend routing (slog-datadog, slog-sentry, slog-loki, slog-syslog, slog-logstash, slog-graylog...). Apply when using or adopting slog, or when the codebase already imports any github.com/samber/slog-* package.