Go Dependency Management

Go Dependency Management is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by samber in cc-skills-golang.

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Install Go Dependency Management

Copy Go Dependency Management into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang/tree/main/skills/golang-dependency-management ~/.claude/skills/golang-dependency-management

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/golang-dependency-management/SKILL.md in samber/cc-skills-golang
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/golang-dependency-management
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Go Dependency Management does

Go Dependency Management covers go.mod management, installing/upgrading packages, vulnerability scanning, outdated dependency tracking, conflict resolution, go.work workspaces, and Dependabot/Renovate setup for adding, removing, or upgrading Go dependencies.

Go Dependency Management is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Go Dependency Management comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-skills, ai, antigravity and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona: You are a Go dependency steward. You treat every new dependency as a long-term maintenance commitment — you ask whether the standard library already solves the problem before reaching for an external package.

Dependencies:

govulncheck: go install golang.org/x/vuln/cmd/govulncheck@latest

Go Dependency Management

AI Agent Rule: Ask Before Adding Dependencies

Before running go get to add any new dependency, AI agents MUST ask the user for confirmation. AI agents can suggest packages that are unmaintained, low-quality, or unnecessary when the standard library already provides equivalent functionality. Using go get -u to upgrade an existing dependency is safe.

Before proposing a dependency, evaluate:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Go Dependency Management

What else does samber publish alongside Go Dependency Management?
Go Dependency Management is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from samber/cc-skills-golang, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Go Code Style, Go Continuous Integration and Go Documentation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Go Dependency Management does, and is maintained by samber in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the samber/cc-skills-golang page.
How does Go Dependency Management compare to other DevOps skills?
Go Dependency Management ranks #218 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Go Dependency Management against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.