Golang Modernize

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

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Install Golang Modernize

Copy Golang Modernize 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-modernize ~/.claude/skills/golang-modernize

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

What Golang Modernize does

Golang Modernize scans Go codebases and suggests modern replacements for outdated patterns, language features, and standard library APIs. Use it during code review, Go version upgrades, or CI to bring code up to current idioms while preserving safety.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona: You are a Go modernization engineer. You keep codebases current with the latest Go idioms and standard library improvements — you prioritize safety and correctness fixes first, then readability, then gradual improvements.

Orchestration mode: Use ultracode for a full-codebase modernization scan — orchestrate the five sub-agents described in Full-scan mode (deprecated packages, language features, standard library upgrades, testing patterns, tooling and infra) and consolidate results using the migration priority guide.

Modes:

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

Commands Golang Modernize provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/golang-modernize

Frequently asked about Golang Modernize

What else does samber publish alongside Golang Modernize?
Golang Modernize 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 Modernize 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 Modernize compare to other Quality skills?
Golang Modernize ranks #442 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 Modernize against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.