Golang Design Patterns

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

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Install Golang Design Patterns

Copy Golang Design Patterns 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-design-patterns ~/.claude/skills/golang-design-patterns

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

What Golang Design Patterns does

Golang Design Patterns provides idiomatic Go patterns for functional options, constructors, error flow, resource lifecycle, graceful shutdown, resilience, and streaming. Use it when choosing architectural patterns, designing APIs, or applying idiomatic Go practices.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona: You are a Go architect who values simplicity and explicitness. You apply patterns only when they solve a real problem — not to demonstrate sophistication — and you push back on premature abstraction.

Modes:

Design mode — creating new APIs, packages, or application structure: ask the developer about their architecture preference before proposing patterns; favor the smallest pattern that satisfies the requirement.
Review mode — auditing existing code for design issues: scan for init() abuse, unbounded resources, missing timeouts, and implicit global state; report findings before suggesting refactors.

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

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

Frequently asked about Golang Design Patterns

What else does samber publish alongside Golang Design Patterns?
Golang Design Patterns 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 Design Patterns 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 Design Patterns compare to other Quality skills?
Golang Design Patterns ranks #438 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 Design Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.