golang-stay-updated

Provides resources to stay updated with Golang news, communities and people to follow. Use when seeking Go learning resources, discovering new libraries, finding community channels, or keeping up with Go language changes and releases.

Quality

87%

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Quality

Content

85%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-organized, actionable curated directory with clear sections and no concept-explanation padding. Its only weakness is mild token inefficiency from a duplicated blog entry and sparse social-media columns that could be trimmed.

Suggestions

Remove the duplicated go.dev/blog entry (it already appears under Official Resources) to cut redundancy from Must-Follow Blogs.

Drop the mostly-empty Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and Bluesky columns from the developer tables, or list only the social handles each person actually has, to reduce low-value tokens.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is a lean, mostly-table reference with no concept-explanation filler, but it carries redundant entries (go.dev/blog appears in both Official Resources and Must-Follow Blogs) and wide social-media tables whose mostly-empty columns add tokens of marginal value, fitting the score-2 "mostly efficient but could be tightened" anchor rather than score-3.	2 / 3
Actionability	As an instruction-only resource skill it gives concrete, copy-paste-ready guidance: exact URLs, named channels/newsletters, and specific numbered recommendations ("Subscribe to 1-2 newsletters", "Follow 10-20 key people"), matching the score-3 actionable anchor per the code-vs-instruction scoring note.	3 / 3
Workflow Clarity	This is a simple single-purpose curated-reference skill with clear section organization and an ordered Quick Tips guide; per the simple_skills scoring note, workflow clarity scores 3 when the single task is unambiguous, and no destructive/batch validation checkpoints apply here.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	Content is organized into clearly labeled sections (Official Resources, Newsletters, Communities, Developers, Blogs, YouTube, Quick Tips) for easy navigation, with no nested references; the one external pointer (the cc-skills-golang@golang-pkg-go-dev skill in tip #5) is a single-level signaled reference, matching the score-3 clear-organization anchor.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Description

90%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description is well-written with an explicit what-and-when structure and natural trigger terms, using correct third-person voice. Its only weakness is moderate specificity: it describes the domain and a single broad action rather than enumerating multiple concrete operations.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain ("Golang news, communities and people to follow") and the action of providing resources to stay updated, but does not enumerate multiple distinct concrete actions, matching the score-2 anchor rather than the score-3 "multiple specific concrete actions" anchor.	2 / 3
Completeness	It explicitly answers what ("Provides resources to stay updated with Golang news, communities and people to follow") and when (the explicit "Use when..." clause), matching the score-3 anchor for clearly answering both what and when with explicit triggers.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	"Use when seeking Go learning resources, discovering new libraries, finding community channels, or keeping up with Go language changes and releases" covers natural phrases a user would actually say, matching the score-3 anchor for good coverage of natural terms.	3 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	It occupies a clear niche (Go ecosystem news, communities, and people to follow) with distinct triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, matching the score-3 anchor rather than the score-2 "could still overlap" anchor.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Validation

93%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
metadata_field	'metadata' should map string keys to string values	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: samber/cc-skills-golang
Path: skills/golang-stay-updated/SKILL.md
Commit: 4158351

Reviewed: about 14 hours ago

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