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go-error-handling

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By cxuu/golang-skills (GitHub) · coding · 194 stars · scanned at commit 91f0c2e

Use when writing Go code that returns, wraps, or handles errors — choosing between sentinel errors, custom types, and fmt.Errorf (%w vs %v), structuring error flow, or deciding whether to log or return. Also use when propagating errors across package boundaries or using errors.Is/As, even if the user doesn't ask about error strategy. Does not cover panic/recover patterns (see go-defensive).

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'go-error-handling' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'go-error-handling' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named go-error-handling already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/cxuu/golang-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '91f0c2eef559a3168f9d3c38f5f99936d472b508' -- 'skills/go-error-handling' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/go-error-handling' ~/.agents/skills/'go-error-handling' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'go-error-handling' ~/.claude/skills/'go-error-handling' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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