AI skills for Go
AI Coding Skills for Go
Browse the best AI coding skills for Go in 2026, Gin / Fiber / Echo API scaffolding, Cobra CLI generation, table-driven test patterns, security audits with govulncheck. Works with every major AI coding tool.
Short answer
The best AI coding skills for Go are skills-hub's `code-review`, `unit-test` (table-driven tests), `api-scaffold` (Gin/Fiber/Echo), `cli-tool` (Cobra), `secure`, `dependency-scan` (govulncheck), and `docker` (multi-stage Go builds). All portable across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Windsurf, Copilot, and Cline.
Go is the workhorse of backend infrastructure in 2026. The skills below detect your Go stack (Gin, Fiber, Echo, Chi, Cobra, sqlx, sqlc, goose) and emit idiomatic Go with proper error wrapping (errors.Is / errors.As), context propagation, and table-driven test patterns. They follow the standard layout (cmd/, internal/, pkg/).
Top skills for Go
01marketing-strategy-pmm
19 installsProduct marketing skill for positioning, GTM strategy, competitive intelligence, and product launches. Use when the user asks about product positioning, go-to-market planning, competitive analysis, target audience definition, ICP definition, market research, launch plans, or sales enablement. Covers April Dunford positioning, ICP definition, competitive battlecards, launch playbooks, and international market entry. Produces deliverables including positioning statements, battlecard documents, launch plans, and go-to-market strategies.
Marketingfrom Multi-Domain Skills02launch-strategy
7 installsWhen the user wants to plan a product launch, feature announcement, or release strategy. Also use when the user mentions 'launch,' 'Product Hunt,' 'feature release,' 'announcement,' 'go-to-market,' 'beta launch,' 'early access,' 'waitlist,' 'product update,' 'GTM plan,' 'launch checklist,' or 'launch momentum.' This skill covers phased launches, channel strategy, and ongoing launch momentum.
Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills03prompt-engineer-toolkit
7 installsTurns marketing prompts into tested, versioned production assets: A/B prompt evaluation against structured test cases, immutable prompt version history with diffs, ready-to-use marketing prompt templates (ad copy, email campaigns, social posts, landing pages, SEO meta), and an LLM-governance playbook for marketing teams (claim discipline, disclosure rules, human-review gates). Use when a marketing team relies on AI-generated content and needs prompt quality to be measurable and safe — or when the user mentions 'prompt engineering,' 'improve my prompts,' 'prompt templates,' 'prompt versioning,' 'AI content workflow,' or 'AI governance for marketing.'
Buildfrom Multi-Domain Skills04shadcn-ui
4 installsExpert guidance for integrating and building applications with shadcn/ui components, including component discovery, installation, customization, and best practices.
Buildfrom Google Labs05godot
3 installsDevelop, test, build, and deploy Godot 4.x games. Includes GdUnit4 for GDScript unit tests and PlayGodot for game automation and E2E testing. Supports web/desktop exports, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment to Vercel/GitHub Pages/itch.io.
Game Devfrom Godot Dojo06common-architecture-audit
3 installsAudit structural debt, logic leakage, and monolithic components across Web, Mobile, and Backend codebases. Use when reviewing architecture, assessing tech debt, detecting logic in wrong layers, or identifying God classes. (triggers: package.json, pubspec.yaml, go.mod, pom.xml, nest-cli.json, architecture audit, code review, tech debt, logic leakage, refactor)
Buildfrom Multi-Language Standards07vertex-ai-api-dev
2 installsGuides the usage of Gemini API on Google Cloud Vertex AI with the Gen AI SDK. Use when the user asks about using Gemini in an enterprise environment or explicitly mentions Vertex AI. Covers SDK usage (Python, JS/TS, Go, Java, C#), capabilities like Live API, tools, multimedia generation, caching, and batch prediction.
Buildfrom Google Gemini08integration-test
2 installsGenerate integration tests for APIs, databases, and external services. Auto-detects backend stack (Express, Fastify, NestJS, Django, FastAPI, Rails, Go), ORM (Prisma, TypeORM, SQLAlchemy, GORM), and database (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firestore), then creates tests covering endpoint CRUD, auth flows, DB transactions, and external service failures with proper fixtures and mocks. Self-heals failing tests up to 3 iterations. Use when you need to test API endpoints end-to-end, verify database operations, test service interactions, or validate auth and error handling.
Testfrom Skills Hub09game-code-review
2 installsReview game code architecture for component coupling, ECS vs OOP design, update loop organization (deltaTime, fixed timestep, frame budget), state machine quality (boolean soup, string states), save/load serialization (versioning, migration, corruption handling), input handling (action-based abstraction, buffering, remapping), and anti-patterns (god objects, find-in-update, tight loop allocation, missing object pooling, magic numbers). Supports Unity, Unreal, Godot, Phaser, and custom engines. Use when auditing game project code quality, architecture, or performance patterns.
Reviewfrom Skills Hub10stock-quote
2 installsRetrieve real-time stock quotes using Octagon MCP. Use when you need current price, day range, 52-week range, volume, market cap, and moving averages for any publicly traded stock.
Buildfrom Octagon Finance11income-statement
1 installsRetrieve real-time income statement data including Revenue, Net Income, and EPS Diluted for public companies. Use when analyzing absolute financial figures, historical earnings, or comparing company scale across fiscal periods.
Buildfrom Octagon Finance12sec-amendments-review
1 installsReview amendments to SEC filings using Octagon MCP. Use when tracking material changes, corrections, restatements, and updates to previously filed documents including 10-K/A, 10-Q/A, 8-K/A, S-1/A, and Form 144/A filings.
Buildfrom Octagon Finance13sec-segment-reporting
1 installsAnalyze business segment performance and reporting from SEC filings using Octagon MCP. Use when researching segment revenue, operating income, margins, geographic breakdown, and segment restructuring from 10-K and 10-Q filings.
Buildfrom Octagon Finance14financial-growth
1 installsRetrieve comprehensive year-over-year growth in key financial metrics including Revenue, Gross Profit, Operating Income, Net Income, EPS, and Free Cash Flow. Use when analyzing overall company financial performance trends across income statement and cash flow.
Buildfrom Octagon Finance15earnings-analyst-master
1 installsComprehensive earnings call analyst skill that orchestrates all Octagon earnings analysis skills. Use when analyzing earnings calls, extracting management insights, tracking guidance, and creating earnings-focused research reports.
Buildfrom Octagon Finance16Product Discovery to Delivery
1 installsFull product lifecycle from customer discovery through delivery. Market analysis, positioning, lean canvas, PRD, technical spec, implementation review, launch readiness, and go-to-market plan.
Combo17cli-tool
1 installsGenerate a production-ready command-line tool -- scaffold a complete CLI application with subcommand parsing, interactive prompts with validation, colored and structured output (tables, spinners, progress bars), JSON output mode for scripting, XDG-compliant config management, custom error types with exit codes, and distribution setup for publishing. Supports Node.js (Commander.js, Inquirer, chalk, ora), Python (Typer, Rich, httpx, Pydantic), Go (Cobra, Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, Viper, goreleaser), and Rust (clap derive, dialoguer, console, comfy-table). Build a CLI, create command-line app, generate terminal tool, scaffold CLI utility, new CLI project.
Buildfrom Skills Hub18sec-risk-factors
1 installsExtract and summarize risk factors from SEC filings using Octagon MCP. Use when analyzing Item 1A risk disclosures, categorizing business risks, identifying new or material risks, and comparing risk profiles across companies or time periods.
Buildfrom Octagon Finance
Frequently asked questions
Do AI skills follow Go conventions like context.Context propagation?
Yes. Modern skills propagate ctx through every function signature, use errors.Wrap / errors.Join correctly, and emit table-driven tests as the default test pattern.
Can AI generate Cobra CLI tools?
Yes. The cli-tool skill detects Go and scaffolds Cobra-based CLIs with subcommands, flag parsing, interactive prompts (via huh / survey), and proper exit codes.
What's the best AI tool for Go?
Claude Code and Cursor both handle Go well. Claude Code excels at multi-package refactors and the deeper agent mode is great for end-to-end feature work.
Do AI skills handle Go workspaces (go.work)?
Yes. Modern skills detect go.work and respect module replacement directives when scaffolding new packages.