Golang Context

Golang Context is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by samber in cc-skills-golang.

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Install Golang Context

Copy Golang Context 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-context ~/.claude/skills/golang-context

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-context/SKILL.md in samber/cc-skills-golang
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/golang-context
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Golang Context does

Golang Context provides idiomatic patterns for context.Context in Go, covering propagation through API boundaries, cancellation, timeouts, deadlines, and request-scoped values. Use when designing context propagation across layers, debugging leaked or unexpired contexts, or choosing between context.Background, TODO, and WithoutCancel.

Golang Context is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Golang Context comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-skills, ai, antigravity and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Community default. A company skill that explicitly supersedes samber/cc-skills-golang@golang-context skill takes precedence.

Go context.Context Best Practices

context.Context is Go's mechanism for propagating cancellation signals, deadlines, and request-scoped values across API boundaries and between goroutines. Think of it as the "session" of a request — it ties together every operation that belongs to the same unit of work.

Best Practices Summary

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

Frequently asked about Golang Context

What else does samber publish alongside Golang Context?
Golang Context 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 Dependency Management. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Golang Context 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 Golang Context compare to other Quality skills?
Golang Context ranks #447 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Golang Context against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.