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effective-go

v1.4.0

Opinionated Go writing discipline covering idiomatic code, errors, tests, comments, and behavior-preserving simplification.

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By Patrick D'appollonioLicense: MIT8 GitHub starsUpdated last week

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Sep 17, 2026
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Install effective-go for Codex and Claude Code

Installs for the current user
codex plugin marketplace add patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins
codex plugin marketplace upgrade patrickdappollonio
codex plugin add effective-go@patrickdappollonio

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the patrickdappollonio catalog, then install this plugin.

Compatibility: the page URL and API slug “effective-go” remain stable.

  • Codex: effective-go@agent-plugin-marketplace → effective-go@patrickdappollonio

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/effective-go/.

Plugin files

plugins/effective-go/
├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/effective-go/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

effective-goskills/effective-go/SKILL.md

Use when writing, editing, or reviewing Go code — any .go file, go.mod, a new package, a function, an error message, a test, a mock, a goroutine — or when asked whether Go code is idiomatic. Also use before answering a question about how something "should" be written in Go.

Plugin manifests2

plugins/effective-go/.codex-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "effective-go",
  "version": "1.4.0",
  "description": "Opinionated Go writing discipline covering idiomatic code, errors, tests, comments, and behavior-preserving simplification.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Patrick D'appollonio",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/tree/main/plugins/effective-go",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "go",
    "golang",
    "style",
    "testing",
    "code-quality"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "Effective Go",
    "shortDescription": "Write idiomatic, well-tested Go.",
    "longDescription": "Applies established Go conventions to implementation, error handling, tests, comments, and simplification.",
    "developerName": "Patrick D'appollonio",
    "category": "Developer Tools",
    "capabilities": [
      "Write",
      "Review",
      "Test"
    ],
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Implement this in idiomatic Go."
    ]
  }
}
plugins/effective-go/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "effective-go",
  "description": "Opinionated Go writing discipline — idiomatic Go from Effective Go, the Google style guide, the Go Proverbs and the Gruntwork guide, with a stated house preference for natural-language, wrappable error messages, hand-written Fn-field mocks that fail loudly, comment and simplification discipline folded in, and a per-change checklist the agent runs before calling Go code done.",
  "version": "1.4.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Patrick D'appollonio",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/patrickdappollonio/claude-plugins/tree/main/plugins/effective-go",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "go",
    "golang",
    "style",
    "idiomatic",
    "errors",
    "testing",
    "code-quality"
  ]
}

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