Description
golang-popular-libraries is an agent skill from the samber cc-skills-golang collection for choosing Go libraries and frameworks. Its persona is a Go ecosystem expert who knows the library landscape well enough to recommend the simplest production-ready option, and who says when the standard library is already enough. When recommending a library, the skill asks the agent to weigh production readiness, simplicity in line with Go's idiomatic style, and performance that uses Go's strengths. Its strongest rule is standard library first: an external package is recommended only when it provides clear value over what the standard library already offers. The skill contains reference catalogues for the standard library, including newer and experimental packages, v2 packages, promoted experimental packages and golang.org/x extensions, and it has catalogues of vetted third-party libraries by category, such as web, database, testing, logging and messaging. A third catalogue lists development tools for debugging, linting, testing and dependency management. The skill is useful for developers starting a Go service who want a short list of options that have been chosen with care, rather than a long list of everything available. Its catalogues are maintained in the collection's references folder. It is listed on skills.sh, where the page shows install counts and GitHub stars for the collection, and its security audits all pass. Install it with npx skills add https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-popular-libraries.…
Highlights
- Standard library first
- Vetted third-party libraries by category
- Newer and experimental standard packages
- Development tool catalogue
- Production-readiness criteria
- Installs from skills.sh
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golang-popular-libraries FAQ
What does this skill recommend?
Go libraries and frameworks for a task, chosen by production readiness, simplicity and performance.
When does it say to skip a library?
When the standard library already covers the use case, which the skill treats as the first choice.
What categories are covered?
Web, database, testing, logging and messaging, plus a catalogue of development tools.
How do I install it?
Run npx skills add https://github.com/samber/cc-skills-golang --skill golang-popular-libraries.
What are the security audit results?
skills.sh lists three audits: Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass, Socket Pass and Snyk Pass.
How popular is it?
The page shows about 37.7K installs, and the cc-skills-golang repository has 3.5K GitHub stars.
What are the best golang-popular-libraries alternatives?
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